We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and enthusiastic person to join our team of Therapeutic Radiographers at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
We are offering a permanent fulltime contract position that will be based at Guy's Cancer Centre in London with the occasional need to cover at the Queen Mary's Sidcup centre.
As one of the most successful and highly regarded teaching hospitals in the NHS we are able to provide enviable opportunities for you to develop your career. We offer exposure to a fantastic combination of routine, varied and highly specialised Treatments.
Patients are at the heart of what we do so we are looking for Therapeutic Radiographers who can provide excellent care with compassion and respect. All Radiographers in bands 5 – 7 roles have the opportunity to rotate through pre-treatment and treatment.
Equipped with nine state of the art Truebeam® linear accelerators, the department can offer IGIMRT to patients as routine practise as well as TBI, stereotactic body and intercranial treatments.
As senior therapeutic radiographer you will be pivotal in the delivery of a wide range of radiotherapy techniques whilst maintaining high standards of accuracy and quality patient care .There will also be the opportunity to develop your organisational and leadership skills to support the team leader in the day-to-day organisation of the unit and create an environment in which staff and students can learn and reach their full potential.
Working within a multi-professional quality driven environment, patients are at the centre of all that we do. You will have the opportunity to part of a team that is continuously innovating to improve services that we can offer to our patients.
The departments routinely operate extended day working and shift patterns apply for machine service days and unscheduled service interruptions. Bank holiday and weekend working take place in line with the department and service operational needs. Participation on the on-call rota is a requirement of this post.
The Radiotherapy Service serves a catchment population of approximately 1.6 million and is the provider of radiotherapy for the six London boroughs – Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. The service also receives national referrals from St John’s Skin Clinic, based at GSTT, for patients requiring specialist skin radiotherapy, Total Skin Electron Body radiotherapy (TSEBT). The service also provides TBI and stereotactic radiotherapy, body and intracranial treatment, and for a very small number of private patients. The service delivers in excess of 52,000 radiotherapy treatments and works in closest collaboration with colleagues at King’s College NHS Foundation Trust, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for detailed information regarding the responsibilities and requirements for this post.
This advert closes on Sunday 13 Apr 2025