Lead Technical Expert: Medical Physics

The Health Research Authority (HRA) is offering a new and exciting opportunity for senior, experienced members of the professional Medical Physics community working in health and care research. These roles will contribute to improving study set‑up by streamlining processes and supporting sites to take assurances, to reduce the time taken to set up research to 150 days or less, in line with the ambitious government target. We are seeking expert input and leadership to support this work, and appointments will be made from this pool of experienced professionals. Roles will be fixed‑term secondments, for one year with flexible whole‑time equivalents, recognising that they will be undertaken alongside existing professional responsibilities.

Successful individuals will work on behalf of the HRA to help develop improvements in set‑up and technical assurances provided for research involving radiation. We aim to support the NHS and Health and Social Care organisations (HSC Norther...