Job summary
An exciting opportunity has been created for a radiotherapy educator experienced in Digital Clinical Placement Design and Delivery and with proven education and coaching experience to join the team. This position is funded through a digital clinical placement tariff and therefore the focus on the role is to continue to support digital clinical placement delivery, scalability, and sustainability.
The post holder will be directly involved in digital clinical placement delivery for pre and post registration learners within Therapeutic Radiographer and wider professional groups. As a specialist in radiotherapy, they will also provide cover to the wider radiotherapy education team. Thus, providing a robust skill mix and infra-structure as clinical placement transformation in digital teaching and learning expands alongside the NHS Education and Workforce priorities.
To express your interest please submit 250 words evidencing your experience in digital clinical placement education and coaching frameworks, along with your experience in radiotherapy education at all levels (as per outlined by the national ACCeND) oncology career framework.
Expressions of interest to be submitted to Alison Sanneh- Digital Clinical Placement Lead.
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Main duties of the job
Support for Digital Clinical Placement project design and delivery of Digital Clinical Placements across the Integrated Care Systems, including National Programmes.
Maintaining and maturing a leadership coaching model to create and sustain a psychological safe learning and working environment in clinical placement practise (virtual and on site)
Maintain learner safety- including risk assessment, progression and assessment, placement completion and tariff related activity in line with the NHS Education Contract.
Deliver Radiotherapy Education activity supported by the core education leadership teams, in line with highly specialised radiotherapy education, in line with relevant legislation, IR(ME)R, MHRA and Care quality commission standards.
Influence radiotherapy education frameworks, including risk and risk mitigation to ensure high levels of training standards that provide good care and clinical outcomes for patients.
Support, where required pre-registration and post registration radiotherapy related training, including inductions, preceptorship, progression, support, and supervision, ensuring inclusivity.
About us
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 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us 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, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Communication & Relationship Skills
The post holder will provide and receive highly complex may be sensitive in nature and may be contentious. This may beindividual students, colleagues, senior managers or to patients or it mayinvolve communication with groups. Communication may be within theTrust, with the partner-universities or with NHS-England, Department ofHealth or Health Education England personnel or committees.
Knowledge, Training & Experience
The post-holder will display a highly specialist level of knowledge in theareas of both education theory and practice and modern radiotherapyand oncology theory and technical and clinical practice. They will haveprofessional clinical knowledge acquired through a BSc (Hons) inRadiotherapy and appropriate Oncology, Radiotherapy or Educationalqualification at Masters level ( MA, MSc or MEd). They will havesignificant experience in supervision and managing learners and personalexperience of preparing and/or delivering modern advanced radiotherapy.
Analytical & Judgemental Skills
As a member of the education team in the radiotherapy service, the postholderwill be expected to advise the Education Principal Radiographerand the Professional Head of Radiotherapy about the education andtraining functions in the service. They will advise senior colleagues onthe management of clinical education provision for pre-registrationradiographers and pre-qualification assistant practitioners and on thecontinuous professional development requirements for all staff will involve collecting, analysing and interpreting the complex andcompeting demands of the various staff groups in the service.
Planning & Organisational Skills
The post holder will plan and organise the rosters for learners and willensure that the full roster is agreed with the partner universities tolearning placements during their clinical placements.
They will support the Education Principal Radiographer and the sectionmanagers, in conducting a training needs analysis for each element ofthe service in a manner and timeframe as required by the Trust. Theywill be responsible for monitoring, auditing and reporting on this analysisto the Principal Radiographer periodically as agreed.
Working with the Education Principal Radiographer and the LeadRadiographer for Protons, the post-holder will participate in projects todesign, implement and monitor clinical competencies and associatedtraining needs for tiers of the Proton and Photon workforce.
Physical Skills
The post-holder will be expected to develop and maintain the technicalskills required to prepare, facilitate and/ or deliver a radiotherapytreatment, including use of the CT Scanner and Linear Accelerators andto be able to instruct others who are developing these skills. Thesehighly-developed physical skills require millimetre accuracy in theutilisation of complex machinery.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care
The post-holder will be rostered to undertake highly specialist clinicaltechnical imaging or treatment services and will provide education adviceon these services to students and other learners and to more juniorqualified colleagues.
Responsibility for Policy/Service Development
The post-holder will be responsible for proposing departmental policy inrelation to the education and training functions of the service and foroverseeing the implementation of these educational policies across allgeographical sites in which the Radiotherapy Service operates.
Responsibility for Financial & Physical Resources
The post-holder will be responsible for the safe use of expensive or highlycomplex equipment.
Responsibility for Human Resources
The post-holder will be responsible for highly specialist teaching to pr eandpost-registration learners in radiotherapy.
The post-holder will be involved in staff and student selection both on siteat The Christie and elsewhere within the network of campuses and Trust sitesattached to partner universities.
Responsibility for Information Resources
The post-holder will record personally generated information and ensurea system is in place, compliant with best practice in data managementand Trust and University policies, to record, collate, process and storeinformation on the progress of learners.
They will updates patient records and maintain departmental databasesas appropriate.
Responsibility for Research & Development
The post-holder will not be expected to undertake research as a majorjob function but will be expected to support colleagues undertakingresearch, top maintain an awareness of current clinical trials and ensurethis is included in the educational update programme and to image ortreat patients involved in clinical trials. However, the post-holder mayundertake independent research with the agreement of the ProfessionalHead of Radiotherapy.
Freedom to Act
Expected results and outcomes will be defined by the PrincipleRadiographer for Clinical Education but the post holder will be expectedto apply best practice to achieve these results. Guidance may beprovided by the Principle Radiographer, peers or external referencepoints including the academic staff of the partner job description is not exhaustive and will be reviewed periodically toconsider changes and developments in service requirements. Any changes willbe discussed fully with the post-holder.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. DCR(T) or BSc (Hons)
2. Therapeutic Radiographer State Registered Therapeutic Radiographer
3. HCPC Registration.
4. Evidence of CPD activity
5. Evidence of post graduate study/education in area relevant to role.
Desirable
6. M level qualification in associated subject
7. Management qualification.
8. IT skills
Experience
Essential
9. Expert experience with a contemporary range of equipment and techniques.
10. Expert experience of working with ISO 9001/2008 or equivalent accredited quality system
11. Significant experience at a senior level
12. Team management experience.
13. Evidence of participation in audit, research and-or radiotherapy development work.
Desirable
14. Experience/awareness of clinical practice at other Radiotherapy centres
15. Participation in the implementation of new equipment or technology
Skills
Essential
16. Ability to communicate effectively and manage conflict resolution with all grades of staff, patients, carers and general public.
17. Effective people management skills of all staff.
18. Ability to work well in a team environment and autonomously. Ability to motivate junior members of the team.
19. Excellent leadership skills, organisation and decision making skills under pressure in a clinical environment.
20. Excellent analytical and numerical skills
21. Ability to lead the introduction of new techniques, equipment or software
22. Excellent technical skills and dexterity.
23. Excellent contemporary image interpretation skills
Knowledge
Essential
24. Knowledge and experience of advanced and complex treatment techniques.
25. Advanced knowledge of IR(ME)R 2000 and IRR 1999 and responsibilities relating to own professional practice.
26. Good knowledge of other relevant legislation, guidance and national working parties in radiotherapy
27. Expert knowledge of the principles of radiotherapy applied to all aspects of the radiotherapy pathway.
28. Excellent radiotherapy physics, anatomy
Desirable
29. Awareness of current trends in radiotherapy
Other
Essential
30. Flexibility in working hours.
31. Ability to travel to other Christie sites when requested.
32. Participation in on-call service.
Values
Essential
33. Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours