Pre-Treatment - Senior Therapeutic Radiographer
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
This post is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System.
Main duties of the job
Portsmouth Radiotherapy department covers a wide catchment area, treating patients from Portsmouth, Southampton, West Sussex, and the Isle of Wight. As well as the daily routine of scanning, planning, and treating patients, we also offer an out-of-hours service at the weekends.
With recent expansion in our Clinical Trials portfolio and advanced radiotherapy techniques, we are looking for a proactive Senior Therapeutic Radiographer to join our team who is keen to progress in their career and support the implementation of SimRT within CT. This post comes with enhanced practice funding to support professional development.
We have four TrueBeam 3.0 linear accelerators which include advanced IGRT imaging such as online 4D CBCT, iCBCT, and triggered imaging. We have 6DOF couches in use for Head and neck, upper GI, and Lung SABR patients, alongside abdomen compression immobilisation. We have a wide-bore Siemens GOSIM CT scanner, Brachytherapy, orthovoltage, and on-treatment review services. We link all of our department together using ARIA V15.L6 and are a paperless department.
We have recently increased our SABR offering for oligometastases and prostate cancer via the PACE Nodes trial. In dosimetry, we have recently moved to Raystation planning system and routinely use AI auto-contouring software to make planning more efficient.
About us
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to offer our staff fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, and access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality, and DisAbility. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Job responsibilities
* To produce high-quality radiotherapy planning scans and immobilisation.
* To be actively involved with the development of Radiotherapy Services.
* To take responsibility for the organisation of the daily radiotherapy workload and staff, supporting the pre-treatment lead radiographer.
* To justify radiation exposures, undertake patient pre-assessment checks, cannulate, and administer contrast.
* To supervise students and junior staff on the unit and to take an active part in their clinical training.
* To participate in the departmental shift and on-call system between the hours of 07:00-20:00, 7 days a week.
* Be accountable for own professional actions and limitations within own scope of practice.
* Abide by HCPC code of conduct and maintain HCPC registration.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc Therapeutic Radiography or equivalent.
* HCPC registration to practice as a Therapeutic Radiographer.
* Post-graduate education (or be willing to take part in Level 7 education).
Experience
* Appropriate level of post-qualification experience, working across both treatment and pre-treatment areas, using a range of modern equipment.
* Experience of working in pre-treatment and with a range of radiotherapy treatment techniques.
* Working within the NHS environment as a Therapeutic Radiographer.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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