Clinical Technologist | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare institution in London is seeking a clinical technologist to join its Radiotherapy Physics group. The role focuses on producing treatment plans for external-beam therapies, requiring strong analytical skills and experience in treatment planning. Candidates should hold a relevant degree and be familiar with dosimetry calculations. This position offers the opportunity to work in a specialist center with advanced technology and a focus on patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience in treatment planning for external beam therapies.
• Ability to assess complex treatment parameters and patient dose effects.
• Understanding of multimodality imaging for planning.

Responsibilities

• Produce routine and complex treatment plans.
• Advise clinical oncologists on treatment plan effects.
• Attend clinical audit meetings and explain planning issues.

Skills

Treatment planning

Dosimetry calculations

Analytical skills

Education

Degree in clinical technology or related field

Tools

RayStation treatment planning system

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic clinical technologist, junior physicist, dosimetrist or radiographer to join the Radiotherapy Physics group at the Sutton branch of the Royal Marsden Hospital. This post will focus mainly on producing treatment plans for all types of external-beam planning in the centre. Some treatment-planning experience is required, showing the strong foundations to move into all areas of advanced planning. An appointment might be made at a lower band for a candidate with less experience.

Responsibilities

• Produce routine and complex treatment plans plus associated dosimetry calculations in accordance with clinical prescription and agreed procedures. Check that all patient images required to produce treatment plans are available. Analyse requirements and make complex judgments regarding treatment parameters and patient dose effects to produce the required dose distribution over the treatment volume, using computerised planning systems as appropriate.
• Assist with outlining of the anatomy for organs at risk as required.
• Advise clinical oncologists on the effects of various treatment plan options on patient dose distributions. Discuss and agree approaches with clinical staff to create optimum treatment plans.
• Attend clinical audit meetings as required, advising and explaining technical treatment planning issues for individual patients.

Context and capabilities

As part of the planning team, you will work on the full range of treatment sites at a specialist centre. Treatment planning is performed using the RayStation treatment planning system, with most treatment sites planned using a VMAT technique. We have established workflows for adaptive radiotherapy (plan of the day and oART), 4DCT, and breathhold techniques. Multimodality imaging (CT, PET-CT, MR) is used for planning of several treatment sites. Recent clinical development work has included expanding adaptive radiotherapy planning, and developing planning techniques for helical delivery on our new Radixact units. The Radiotherapy Department in Sutton has 6 Elekta linacs, an Elekta Unity MR-Linac, a Cyberknife S7, and an Accuray Radixact with the second being commissioned. The Royal Marsden has led a number of recent clinical trials which have changed practice nationally.