Health Physics Monitor

Consilium Recruit are proudly supporting and partnering with the National Nuclear Laboratory to recruit multiple Health Physics Monitors. Working in the Safety, Security & Safeguards team, you will support this prestigious organisation to use nuclear energy and nuclear science to benefit society. The roles are based on site at Windscale, Sellafield in Cumbria.


Commutable from:  Sellafield, Workington, Cockermouth, Broughton in Furness, Barrow in Furness, Keswick

Salary: to circa £ 38,000 p.a. plus an exceptional suite of benefits including:

• Paid overtime and an additional shift allowance paid should shift working be required.
• Sector leading Family-Focused Policies: celebrate life events, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and a week off for your marriage.
• NNL offers attractive pension plans. If you contribute 5%, NNL contributes 15%. Alternatively, if you choose not to contribute (0%), NNL will still contribute 10%.
• Annual Leave: Benefit from 25.5 days of leave, plus 4 extra days to be taken during Christmas shutdown, plus Bank Holidays.
• Reduced gym membership with discounts of up to 25% from 3,700 gym and leisure providers across the UK
• Company Bonus
• Learning Opportunities: Enhance your skills through excellent development programmes.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life Assurance:
• Enhanced Sick Pay Benefits
• Access to ‘Mydiscounts’ which has a range of exclusive offers and discounts from more than 200 suppliers, including medical insurance and dental insurance. 
• Health Care: Health savings plan which allows you to claim money back on visits to the dentist, optician, and/or physiotherapist (limits apply).

The Role

The Health Physics Monitor will provide advice and guidance in relation to radiological protection, producing surveys, reports, and presentations of data findings.

You will collaborate with other stakeholders to ensure best practice in terms of health, safety and environmental requirements and play an active role in ensuring that the steps taken follow both NNL’s framework and the wider regulatory frameworks in place.

The Health Physics Monitor will support root cause analysis of issues and that the required follow-up procedures are delivered and documented.

This is a permanent role based onsite at Sellafield Windscale site.

The Person

The successful candidates for the Health Physics Monitor roles will posses either a City & Guilds Level 1 in Radiation Protection or the NVQ Level in Radiation Protection certification.

You will be required to have previous experience in health physics monitoring in a nuclear facility and good knowledge of the required regulations and H&S frameworks.

You will have the ability to obtain SC level security clearance and be able to work in a flexible and collaborative way with the safety team and associated stakeholders.

National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) offers a supportive and nurturing environment in which to build your career with expert guidance and training available to all.

To apply, please contact James Colley with a current CV via email.