Health Physics Chargehand

Join our team as a Health Physics Chargehand, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring the effective utilization of Health Physics Services resources to meet customer requirements. You will support the Health Physics Supervisor in operations and monitor radiological matters both within and outside the working environment. In the absence of the Health Physics Supervisor, you will be responsible for supervising the team. Your main duties will include resource management, customer liaison, safety compliance, emergency response, surveying, risk assessments, and stakeholder management.

• Resource Management – Deployment, Supervision, Training of Health Physics Services resources.
• Customer Liaison – Response to customer requests, ensuring compliance with QA systems.
• Safety – Ensure adherence to regulations, advise customers, and initial response to radiological incidents.

**Required Technical Competence**

• Good working knowledge of Health Physics practice and local plants.
• Customer Liaison – Response, priorities and complaints
• Ensuring compliance with QA systems by local team
• Clerical Duties – Writing procedures and working instruction, compiling statistics and reports for customers as required.
• Safety and Emergencies – Safety culture, emergency response
• Must have a sound basic education backed up by good communication skills.
• Basic computer skills
• Good knowledge of the site and the hazards associated with each facility.
• Good knowledge of Health Physics and site regulations
• Vocation Training – City and Guilds Radiation Safety Practice Stages 1 and 2 or equivalent
• Radiation Protection Supervisor course
• SQEP approval to client site standards (e.g. at Sellafield SQEP review against SRO718 (Site Supervisor)