Employer: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Freeman Hospital
Town: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 03/03/2025
Senior Dosimetrist
Band 6
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic disorders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under-represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen within The Northern Centre for Cancer Care for an experienced Clinical Technologist, Dosimetrist or Therapeutic Radiographer to act as a Senior Dosimetrist in the Radiotherapy Centre.
The post is based at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. There will be the opportunity to participate in developments and may be required to provide supervision and training for junior staff. Current experience of radiotherapy treatment planning is essential, and the post holder will be supported through a comprehensive in-house competency based training programme in treatment planning for a wide range of treatment sites.
Radiotherapy treatment planning is undertaken on Raystation. The Dosimetry teams work as a large combined service between both sites of NCCC in Newcastle and Carlisle allowing ample opportunity for the post holder to deepen their experience of complex treatment planning techniques.
Main duties of the job
* Managing the daily organisation of own workload to ensure the delivery of the highly specialist external beam radiotherapy dose planning service to the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC).
* For individual patients, designing the radiotherapy plan and determining the treatment parameters on a treatment planning system.
* For individual patients, validating treatment data generated to ensure its integrity and appropriateness for clinical use and exporting it for treatment.
* Responsible, with the clinician, for designing highly complex plans for individual patients with particular dosimetric problems and where appropriate communicating the complex information of the plan to other staff groups.
* Participating in research development projects from inception to completion.
* Contribute to the delivery of training and education of all staff groups and visitors to the section.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE
* Up to date knowledge of relevant areas of medical physics applied to treatment planning, radiotherapy physics, imaging and treatment.
* Good understanding of 3D anatomy and physiology.
* Evidence of knowledge of clinical oncology.
* Evidence of knowledge of current scientific and technological developments in radiotherapy treatment including imaging modalities.
SKILLS
* Ability to work independently and as a team member.
* Ability to work accurately in all areas of work.
* Efficient time management and organizational skills.
* Evidence of numerical skills and 3D spatial awareness.
* Evidence of competence in report writing and information presentation.
* Good data collection and analysis skills.
EXPERIENCE
* Experience of Radiotherapy Treatment, Imaging, Dose Planning or Medical Physics in previous employment.
* Evidence of completed research and development projects.
QUALIFICATIONS
* Honours degree in a related subject such as radiotherapy oncology or an equivalent qualification.
* Registration with the HCPC or RCT.
Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
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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.
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