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Overview
An enthusiastic, motivated, and dynamic Therapy Radiographer (Band 5) is invited to join the team at our cancer centre in Macclesfield. The Macclesfield unit is the first Christie satellite centre with radiotherapy and chemotherapy departments and can offer concurrent chemo-radiotherapy treatments. The department delivers complex radiotherapy techniques (e.g. SABR and SGRT) using state of the art equipment, providing a wide range of treatments to local patients and varied development opportunities for radiographers. The post holder will be based at the Macclesfield site in East Cheshire but will be expected to work across all Christie sites as required.
This is a rotational post and you will have the opportunity to work across treatment and pre-treatment sections of the department. All candidates must be already registered with the HCPC and possess a Therapy Radiographer qualification (or evidence they are due to qualify this year).
Job Purpose
To ensure accurate planning and delivery of Radiotherapy, as prescribed, and in line with the Quality Management System, with appropriate care of the patient with a cancer diagnosis. To be involved with the development of Radiotherapy Services. This is a rotational post and may involve working in pre-treatment, treatment delivery across all Christie sites.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
* To ensure that the highly complex radiotherapy and imaging equipment is safe and accurate to operate, both for staff and patients; undertaking the appropriate machine checks, reporting any variances, faults and malfunctions as necessary.
* This may include run up of equipment alongside the engineers at some sites.
* Undertake and evaluate radiation dose delivery complex calculations, involving a range of radiation types and energies.
* Interpret, monitor and evaluate the treatment prescription to ensure that radiotherapy is delivered accurately and reproducibly.
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, with national referrals from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Daniel Holt
Job title: Centre manager
Email: Daniel.holt3@nhs.net
Telephone: 0161 956 1702
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries
* Hospitals and Health Care
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