Job summary
Employer heading
Consultant Therapeutic Radiographer - Prostate
NHS AfC: Band 8a - 8b
At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.
NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.
Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:
People-focused
We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.
Respect
We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.
Integrity
We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.
Dedication
We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.
Excellence
We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.
Wish you were here? So do we.
We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.
At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.
Job overview
12 months fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity
We are a networked, paperless, Varian department. We have a managed service contract securing a fleet of five Varian TrueBeam linear accelerators, two CT simulators, a Varian Bravos brachytherapy unit and an Xstrahl superficial unit. Our dosimetry planning is radiographer-led, as is our on-treatment review and late effects service. We also have an extensive SABR service.
The department is committed to the staff development and is growing a team of advanced and consultant practitioners.
- New role with scope to shape
- Rare role – very few similar roles in England
- Development opportunity for candidates without the skills or experience required for the B8b role (will be at B8a)
Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Interview date: 7th August 2024
If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported.
Main duties of the job
We have a rare and exciting opportunity to join the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital radiotherapy team as a Consultant Therapeutic Radiographer, dedicated to the prostate cancer pathway. The successful candidate will join our growing Consultant Therapeutic Radiographer team; we have established roles supporting breast patients and patients having brachytherapy.
This is a new role which the successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape, working in partnership with the Clinical Oncologists and Head of Radiotherapy.
For those that do not currently have all the skills or experience required for this Consultant Therapeutic Radiographer post, there is a potential development opportunity as a Trainee Consultant Therapeutic Radiographer.
We are looking for a forward-thinking team player, who wants to play a role in keeping our service at the forefront of modern radiotherapy. To fit in with the team, applicants should be enthusiastic and highly motivated with excellent communication skills.
Working for our organisation
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Practise creatively, advancing professional practice and challenging barriers that limit service and professional development
- Integrate effectively the diverse roles of the consultant clinical practice, professional leadership, education and research
- Demonstrate accountability, recognising and responding appropriately to strengths and limitations in own knowledge, skills and attributes and to those of others
- Maintain and enhance expertise through engagement with continuing professional development
- Synthesise evidence for effective professional practice, demonstrating advanced critical assessment skills
- Initiate and lead audit, peer review and research, disseminating outcomes through presentation and publication
- Influence the development of services and contribution to strategy and policy
- Lead and promote the education and training of staff, students and other groups, contributing to relevant academic programmes
- Use and give professional supervision or coaching
- Exercise high levels of professional judgement and decision making in complex situations
- Exercise professional and motivational leadership and consultancy within and across professional and organisational boundaries
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and inspirational personal characteristics
- Take a critical role in the evaluation of new technologies, identifying their potential and developing strategies for their implementation
- Deliver a whole-system, patient-centred approach, rooted in multi-disciplinary team working
- Supply, administer and prescribe medicines within the legal framework if appropriate for their clinical activity.
Please see the attached job description for full details - this document contains both Band 8b and Band 8a job descriptions.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) Degree in Oncology and Radiotherapy Technology or equivalent
- MSc in appropriate speciality OR working towards
- HCPC Registered Therapeutic Radiographer
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience and evidence as a Clinical Advanced Practitioner/Specialist Practitioner
Skills
Essential criteria
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Strong clinical leadership
Attitude, aptitude
Essential criteria
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mark Gilham
- Job title
- Head of Radiotherapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 646740
List jobs with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Allied Health Professions or all sectors