Job summary
- Main area
- Radiotherapy Physics
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- 3 years (Fixed Term Contract until September 2027)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Some Saturday working is required. Approximately 1 in 6 weeks)
- Job ref
- 318-24-D&S-T1848
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cheltenham General Hospital
- Town
- Cheltenham
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Technologist (Radiotherapy), Band 5
Band 5
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job overview
To provide Radiotherapy Physics services to the Gloucestershire Oncology Centre so that patients’ Radiotherapy can be delivered safely, accurately and efficiently using modern techniques and equipment and to provide scientific advice to other staff groups.
Some Saturday working is required. Approximately 1 in 6 weeks
This is a fixed term post until September 2027
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will contribute to the services provided across the department including treatment plan checking and QC of various pieces of equipment including multimodality Linacs, as well as new projects as they arise. Our work requires flexibility to support the evolving needs of the department and effective communication with clinicians and treatment staff.
Working for our organisation
The team is part of the larger physics department. We work together in a friendly and supportive way to deliver an excellent service
The radiotherapy service at Cheltenham combines a team of physicists, technologists, engineers, radiographers and clinicians to plan and deliver treatments. We deliver radiotherapy to patients across Gloucestershire with Varian linacs (Clinac iXs & TrueBeams), an Xstrahl superficial unit, an Elekta Flexitron HDR afterloader, and a Canon CT scanner. Treatment planning is carried out with the Pinnacle treatment planning system for external beam radiotherapy and Oncentra for brachytherapy cervix treatments.
We work closely with the diagnostic and nuclear medicine physics teams who operate across Cheltenham and Gloucester, and also provide a service to Hereford County Hospital as a single machine satellite centre for patients across Hereford.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for their contribution to routine work provided by the department in accordance with approved protocols and the health and safety policy of the trust. In their duties, they will be responsible for their actions under the terms of their registration and only practice in areas they are trained and authorized to do so. The full job description provides more details.
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Appropriate experience working as RT technologist
- BSc Physics
- MSc related to medical physics
- Understanding of IRR and IR(ME)R
- Good communication skills
- Appropriate experience in Radiotherapy
- Good knowledge of Microsoft packages including spreadsheets
- Ability to manage own work and project work
Desirable criteria
- HCPC Registered Clinical technologist
- Ability to deliver presentations or tutorials
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jason Brimelow
- Job title
- Principal Physicist - Dosimetry and QC
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 2981
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