Job Title: Senior Health Physicist
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £54,019 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72445
Lead radiological protection that safeguards people, submarines and national security
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Health Physicist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Senior Health Physicist, you’ll provide expert radiological protection advice that directly supports the safe delivery of major submarine deep maintenance periods. You’ll play a vital role in upholding radiation safety standards across the Devonport site, ensuring compliance with legislation and enabling engineering teams, project managers and operational specialists to work safely and effectively.
Day-to-day, you’ll work with multiple functions, support the oversight and continuous improvement of health physics arrangements, and act as a recognised subject matter expert. It’s an ideal opportunity to develop your technical authority, consultancy skills and leadership capability within one of the UK’s most important defence environments.
- Supporting the implementation, oversight and continuous improvement of health and safety performance within the section.
- Ensuring Health Physics standards are consistently maintained and continuously improved where practicable.
- Assisting the Principal Health Physicist to ensure personnel are competent and suitably qualified and experienced (SQEP).
- Overseeing, developing and managing staff training and professional development activities.
- Acting as a recognised technical radiological protection expert, providing consultancy input to one or more major projects.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Senior Health Physicist
- Relevant Health Physics experience or other closely related professional experience.
- Experience conducting radiological risk assessments (beneficial).
- IT literacy, including strong MS Office proficiency.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship‑building skills.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and confidently across diverse teams (implied).
Qualifications for the Senior Health Physicist
- Science degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- Radiation Protection Postgraduate Diploma, MSc, or suitable equivalent.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 31/03/2026
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