Job overview
We are looking for someone to join our Radiotherapy Physics team as a Band 7 Radiotherapy Physicist.
The Oncology department is a well-equipped centre treating patients from across East London and Essex, committed to introducing the latest treatment techniques and equipment. External beam radiotherapy is delivered on Varian Halcyon, Edge, and Ethos Therapy linacs. The Edge is our stereotactic machine, with HDMLC, 4D-CBCT, 6 DoF couch, and HyperArc-enabled. Aria is cloud-based, hosted by Varian. Treatment planning is done on Eclipse 17 (with RapidPlan and MCO licences) and in Ethos v2, with auto-contouring on Limbus. The department fully supports a wide range of clinical trials, and has an excellent selection of QA devices and software. We have a new Siemens go.Sim CT scanner; within the last two years we have introduced HyperSight on Ethos and Identify SGRT on all linacs. Our current commissioned SABR treatments are lung, bone (non-spine), nodes, adrenal nodes, and spine, and we have recently started providing an intra-cranial SRS service in partnership with Barts Health. We have collaborations and co-operations with radiotherapy equipment vendors for reference site visits, training, beta testing and product development. A full linac refresh is due in 2027.
STP trainees in their last year of training are encouraged to apply.
Main duties of the job
Involved in all aspects of providing a safe and effective Radiotherapy Physics service, including treatment planning, equipment quality control, dosimetry, imaging, quality assurance systems and information systems.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education / Qualification
Essential criteria
1. Accredited MSc in Medical Physics or equivalent
2. HCPC-Registered Clinical Scientist.
Desirable criteria
3. Eligible for Corporate Membership of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (MIPEM)
Experience / Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. •Familiarity with photon and electron dosimetry and application of the latest UK Codes of Practice, and IR(ME)R legislation
Desirable criteria
5. Relevant postgraduate experience which must include radiotherapy physics
6. Highly developed specialist knowledge in one or more particular areas (e.g. IMRT, IGRT, SABR, radiotherapy imaging, film dosimetry, EPID dosimetry and/or any patient specific QA, electron treatment, treatment planning site specialisation, in vivo dosimetry etc.)
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.