Main area Radiotherapy Physics Grade Band 5 Contract Fixed term: 3 years Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Some Saturday working is required. Approximately 1 in 6 weeks) Job ref 318-24-D&S-T1517
Employer Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Cheltenham General Hospital Town Cheltenham Salary £28,407 - £34,581 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 07/05/2024 23:59
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
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
* Worked as RT technologist (>5 months)
* BSc Physics
* MSc related to medical physics
* Understanding of IRR and IR(ME)R
* 12 months experience in Radiotherapy
* Good knowledge of Microsoft packages including spreadsheets
* Ability to manage own work and project work
* HCPC Registered Clinical technologist
* Ability to deliver presentations or tutorials
The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.
Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.
Committed to safeguarding our community
If applicable for the post, all successful candidates will be required to pay for their own Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The cost will be £29 (standard checks) or £46 (enhanced checks), and will be recovered through two instalments from the candidate's salary. Please contact ghn-tr.recruitment@nhs.net for further information.
The Trust is a safeguarding employer committed to the safeguarding and promotion of welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Trust is committed to safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults, and any appointment will be subject to satisfactory clearance. As part of the organisation's commitment to Safer Recruitment, candidates may request copies of relevant policies and procedures by contacting the Recruitment Team at ghn-tr.recruitment@nhs.net
Committed to supporting service personnel
As part of our commitment to support Service Personnel, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in collaboration with the Career Transition Partnership, offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for all qualifying Service and Ex-Service Personnel. To qualify for a guaranteed interview, candidates must meet the essential criteria for the post and be either a current member of the Armed Forces, or be within the two year period of resettlement. If this applies to you please email the job reference number and your AR number to the Recruitment Team at ghn-tr.recruitment@nhs.net
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