Band 7 Radiotherapy Physicist

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Romford seeks a Band 7 Radiotherapy Physicist to join their team. This position involves ensuring a safe and effective Radiotherapy Physics service, with duties including treatment planning and quality control. The successful candidate will have an MSc in Medical Physics and extensive postgraduate experience. The service offers innovative treatment techniques and a collaborative environment. Salary ranges from £53,751 to £60,651 per year.

Qualifications

• Accredited MSc in Medical Physics or equivalent qualification.
• HCPC registration required for Clinical Scientists.
• Postgraduate experience in radiotherapy physics necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide Radiotherapy Physics service ensuring safety and effectiveness.
• Involved in treatment planning, quality assurance, and dosimetry.

Skills

Familiarity with photon and electron dosimetry

Highly developed specialist knowledge in radiotherapy

Compliance with UK Codes of Practice

Education

Accredited MSc in Medical Physics or equivalent

HCPC-Registered Clinical Scientist

Eligible for Corporate Membership of MIPEM

Job description

Go back Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Band 7 Radiotherapy Physicist

The closing date is 11 January 2026

We are looking for someone to join our Radiotherapy Physics team as a Band 7 Radiotherapy Physicist.

The Oncology department is a well-equipped centre treating patients from across East London and Essex, committed to introducing the latest treatment techniques and equipment. External beam radiotherapy is delivered on Varian Halcyon, Edge, and Ethos Therapy linacs. The Edge is our stereotactic machine, with HDMLC, 4D-CBCT, 6 DoF couch, and HyperArc-enabled. Aria is cloud-based, hosted by Varian. Treatment planning is done on Eclipse 17 (with RapidPlan and MCO licences) and in Ethos v2, with auto-contouring on Limbus. The department fully supports a wide range of clinical trials, and has an excellent selection of QA devices and software. We have a new Siemens go.Sim CT scanner; within the last two years we have introduced HyperSight on Ethos and Identify SGRT on all linacs. Our current commissioned SABR treatments are lung, bone (non-spine), nodes, adrenal nodes, and spine, and we have recently started providing an intra-cranial SRS service in partnership with Barts Health. We have collaborations and co-operations with radiotherapy equipment vendors for reference site visits, training, beta testing and product development. A full linac refresh is due in 2027.STP trainees in their last year of training are encouraged to apply.

Involved in all aspects of providing a safe and effective Radiotherapy Physics service, including treatment planning, equipment quality control, dosimetry, imaging, quality assurance systems and information systems.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated goodby the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer.

Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.

Job responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Sarah Wood, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 4188. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person Specification

Education / Qualification

• Accredited MSc in Medical Physics or equivalent
• HCPC-Registered Clinical Scientist.
• Eligible for Corporate Membership of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (MIPEM)

Experience / Knowledge

• oFamiliarity with photon and electron dosimetry and application of the latest UK Codes of Practice, and IR(ME)R legislation
• Relevant postgraduate experience which must include radiotherapy physics
• Highly developed specialist knowledge in one or more particular areas (e.g. IMRT, IGRT, SABR, radiotherapy imaging, film dosimetry, EPID dosimetry and/or any patient specific QA, electron treatment, treatment planning site specialisation, in vivo dosimetry etc.)

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.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

£53,751 to £60,651 a yearper annum inclusive