Radiotherapy Engineer

Newcastle Hospitals; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Radiotherapy Engineer to join the Radiotherapy Engineering Group at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care. The role involves electromechanical maintenance of radiotherapy equipment, supporting patient care, and working across Freeman Hospital and Cumberland Infirmary sites.

Based primarily at the Freeman Hospital, you will apply fault diagnosis skills and IT knowledge to minimise downtime, maintain quality controls, and contribute

Qualifications

• Postgraduate knowledge of engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience with medical or scientific equipment relevant to radiotherapy.
• Willingness to pursue professional registration with RCT or AHCS.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance of radiotherapy and ancillary equipment.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance on treatment machines.
• Carry out fault diagnosis and effective repair to minimise downtime.
• Monitor trends for equipment reliability and quality control.
• Participate in a 7-day roster to cover service needs.

Skills

Engineering knowledge

Fault diagnosis

IT skills

Medical equipment

Education

Degree in engineering

Registration towards RCT/AHCS

Job description

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Radiotherapy Engineer

The closing date is 01 November 2026

The Radiotherapy Engineering Group at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) is looking for a motivated engineer to join our team.

Radiotherapy engineers are part of a team responsible for the electromechanical maintenance of equipment used in the delivery of radiotherapy treatment.

NCCC is based at both the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle and Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle and provides a highly specialised clinical service for the treatment of cancer patients. The successful candidate will be based primarily at the Freeman Hospital but will be required to work on bothsites as the work demands.

The department is equipped with Varian Linear Accelerators and specific training for this equipment will be given if required.

The responsibilities of REG Engineers include ensuring treatment machines function correctly and therefore enable patient treatment, applying fault diagnosis skills, engineering knowledge and IT knowledge to minimise clinical downtime, carrying out planned preventative and unplanned corrective maintenance, and providing the technical, engineering-related input to multidisciplinary radiotherapy service team. REG also works closely with the clinical and scientific Radiotherapy teams to balance the needs of the service.

• Interview Date Monday 16 November 2026

Main duties of the job

REG Radiotherapy Engineers specialise in the provision of Radiotherapy Service. The main duties for a Radiotherapy Engineer are:

• Maintenance of Radiotherapy and ancillary equipment
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance on treatment machines
• Accurate fault diagnosis and effective repair
• Monitor trends for equipment reliability
• Quality Control of Radiotherapy System
• Work within a Quality Management System
• Undertake quality control for equipment
• Support Provision of Radiotherapy Engineering Service
• Participating in research development projects when required.

Applications are invited from candidates with a degree level qualification or who have equivalent experience in an appropriate discipline, and have demonstrable relevant experience, having completed a recognised engineering, technical apprenticeship or training course. In addition, the post holder will be expected to work towards professional registration as a Clinical Technologist with RCT or AHCS.

REG Radiotherapy Engineers work independently or as part of multidisciplinary teams, providing specialist engineering services and technical knowledge enabling patient care.

About us

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the‑art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job responsibilities

• Performs a range of specialist healthcare science activities
• Assist in the delivery of the technical aspects of radiotherapy service.
• Assists in maintaining and developing high standards of service provision throughout their area of responsibility.
• Apply fault diagnosis skills, engineering knowledge and IT knowledge to minimise clinical downtime.
• Participates in roster covering 7-day working week.

Person Specification

KNOWLEDGE

• Post graduate knowledge of engineering gained through experience
• Good knowledge of IT software packages (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) and experience of applying them
• Specialist knowledge and skills in medical or scientific equipment relevant to working area
• Good knowledge of safe moving and handling techniques in both clinical and non‑clinical environment
• Knowledge of clinical hazards and infection control

SKILLS

• Literacy, numeracy and accuracy of a high order
• Responsible for ensuring effective communications within their service and across professional boundaries, overcoming barriers to understanding
• Complex fault diagnosis skills

EXPERIENCE

• Evidence of good engineering practice and completed project work
• A demonstrable interest in working with and repairing electro‑mechanical equipment
• Post qualification experience in industrial or medical electronic engineering
• Relevant experience following completion of manufacturers certified training

QUALIFICATIONS

• A recognised Degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience
• Must be prepared to work towards registration on the RCT register
• Post holder must be working towards relevant manufacturer's certified training
• On the RCT or AHCS PTP register
• Completion of a recognised training scheme

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.

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