Head of Service - Clinical Scientist

Freeman Hospital

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Job summary

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior MR clinical scientist to lead the MR physics service across the North-East and North Cumbria region. You will provide expert clinical and safety support to diverse MR departments and lead in service development and teaching.

The role offers opportunities for research collaboration, teaching on MSc programmes, and travel across NHS trusts in the region. Band 8b/8a, salary details on banding, and UK registration are required.

Qualifications

MR clinical scientist with experience in MR safety and service development.
Evidence of leadership and management in clinical MR services.
Qualified and registered to practice as a clinical scientist in MR.

Responsibilities

Provide expert clinical and safety support to MR departments.
Lead and manage the MR physics service and team.
Deliver teaching and training for clinical scientist/training programmes.
Collaborate on translational research and cross-site projects.

Skills

MR physics expertise

Strategic leadership

Teaching/training

Clinical safety

Education

IPEM MRSE

Certificate of Competence

UK professional registration

Tools

MR Safety Equipment

Job description

37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
Urgent treatment centres

Head of Service - Clinical Scientist

Band 8b/8a

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under-represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to lead in the development of the clinical MR physics service within Newcastle and the North-East and North Cumbria region. You will work alongside the section lead for MR and Ultrasound Physics and other members of the MR physics team in shaping the MR physics service that we provide to a diverse range of NHS and non-NHS MR services, including specialist neurosciences, cardiothoracic, radiotherapy and children’s MR departments. We currently provide support for 33 MR systems, including 1.5 T and 3 T systems, in both acute and Community Diagnostic Centre settings.

The MR physics service is part of the Imaging Physics and Radiation Safety Unit, which provides services to ionising and non-ionising imaging providers across the North-East and North Cumbria region. We also deliver teaching in conjunction with Newcastle University on one of three academic Medical Physics STP programmes in England, and clinical scientist training as part of the Northern Training Consortium.

Interview Date Wednesday 21 October 2026
37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job

We’re looking for an MR clinical scientist with significant experience in the provision of clinical support to MR services, including complex safety support, service development and teaching. Your enthusiasm and strategic vision will help develop and shape MR physics services in the North-East and North Cumbria region.

Key Elements Of The Role Include

Provision of expert clinical and safety support to a diverse range of MR departments.
You will have managerial responsibility for the MR physics service.
You will be appointed as MRSE and lead in the provision of clinical MR physics support to one or more NHS trusts in the North-East and North Cumbria region.
For appointment at band 8B, you will hold the IPEM MRSE
Certificate of Competence or be able to demonstrate that you have the knowledge and experience to apply for this on or before being appointed in the role.
You will provide support for advanced imaging services as required (e.g. fMRI, DTI, cardiac, MR-RT) and complex implant scanning (e.g. CIEDs, neurostimulators, off-label scanning).
You will contribute to teaching on the Newcastle University Medical Physics MSc programme and other formal and informal teaching provided by the MR physics service.
You will collaborate with colleagues within the Trust and the University of Newcastle on translational research projects.

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle Dental Hospital
Cramlington Manor Walks
Urgent treatment centres
Newcastle Fertility Centre
Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The MR physics service also has strong links with the MR research group at the University of Newcastle, and you will be involved in collaboration with the group to further develop translational research activities, in addition to supporting clinical research within the Trust.

The role will involve visits to other NHS trusts around the region so requires a willingness to travel to other sites on a regular basis. This also means that there are opportunities to live not just within Newcastle itself, but anywhere in the wider North-East and North Cumbria region, from coastal Northumberland to the Pennines.

Please note that while our goal is to appoint an MR Clinical scientist with extensive experience in MR physics and proven leadership ability at Band 8b, exceptional candidates without the required experience to be appointed at 8b may be appointed at a Band 8a initially. Progression to Band 8b will require completion of competencies within a 1-3 year period. We therefore strongly encourage early and middle career MR clinical scientists to apply for this post.

Band 8b

Responsible for the provision of one or more IPRS services, as detailed in role descriptor, to the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NUTH) and other customer Trusts in Northern England
Provides professional leadership in area of expertise
Maintains and develops high standards of service provision throughout their area of responsibility
Develops implements and monitors clinical and organisational strategies within areas of expertise
Initiates, develops and delivers research and development activities for healthcare advancement
Manages a team of clinical scientists and technologists delivering the service
Contributes to service and staff development throughout NMPCE

Band 8a - Salary £57,528 - £64,750

Performs a range of advanced healthcare science activities
Participates in the teaching and training commitments of the Service
Maintains and develops high standards of service provision throughout their area of responsibility
Contributes to the development, implementation and monitoring of clinical and organisational strategies within area of expertise
Initiates, in collaboration with the line manager, the development and delivery of research and development activities for healthcare advancement

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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