Employer: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Churchill Hospital
Town: Oxford
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 31/10/2024 23:59
Therapeutic Radiographer – OXFORD CANCER CENTRE
Band 5
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training, and research.
Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence.
Job overview
Exciting opportunities to work in the Oxford Cancer Centre @ Oxford!
We are looking to recruit enthusiastic, caring, and highly motivated Therapeutic Radiographers to join our friendly and welcoming team at the Oxford Cancer Centre.
Patients are at the heart of what we do, and we are looking for Therapeutic Radiographers who can deliver excellent care with compassion and respect. We deliver a range of techniques including IMRT, VMAT, DIBH, IGRT, complex SABR, SRS/SRT, TBI.
As a department, we are proud of our strong culture of learning, education, and support. Our Practice Educator team can assist with professional development opportunities, and we strongly encourage all Radiographers to get involved in project, audit, and research work.
Main duties of the job
1. Work as a member of the team of Radiographers covering all sections of the department including mould room, CT scanning, virtual simulation and contouring, delivery of a wide range of both simple and complex treatment and IGRT techniques.
2. Liaising with the multidisciplinary team.
3. Assist with the day-to-day organisation of a treatment unit to ensure an efficient service is delivered and workload targets are achieved.
4. Supervise, support & teach junior members of staff and students.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
* BSc (Hon) in Radiotherapy
* HCPC registered Therapeutic Radiographer
* Awareness of HCPC standard of conduct
Experience
* Recent experience of working clinically within radiotherapy
* Experience in NHS
* Experience of using Varian equipment including linacs, virtual simulation and Eclipse treatment planning system.
Knowledge
* Core knowledge of a range of radiotherapy equipment and techniques together with the principles underlying them.
* A general understanding of computerised treatment planning systems.
* Core knowledge of the principles of radiotherapy treatment planning and radiation dosimetry as applied to radiotherapy treatments.
* Core knowledge of a range of imaging equipment and principles underlying their use.
* Good anatomical knowledge.
* Knowledge of the department and Trust values and behaviours.
Skills & Abilities
* Good technical and manual dexterity skills required to operate sophisticated equipment in a field of rapidly changing technology.
* Ability to work to fine tolerances and understand the importance of accuracy.
* Good communication and teamwork skills.
* Good patient care with the ability to deliver and receive sensitive information.
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Next Steps: Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification, and that your supporting statement reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria. Candidates selected for interview will be contacted after the short-listing process, usually within 2 weeks.
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