Radiotherapy Physicist

Radiotherapy UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Radiotherapy UK in North London invites applications for a Band 7 Radiotherapy Physicist to join the North Middlesex Hospital radiotherapy physics team. The role offers development of clinical and technical skills within a supportive, collaborative environment, with access to TrueBeam, Halcyon, Eclipse planning, and SGRT capabilities.

Flexible working is supported with a hybrid model of on-site and remote work, and the post provides opportunities to contribute to planning, QA, and service

Qualifications

• Honours degree in a physical science or equivalent.
• IPEM training exit certificate or equivalent experience.
• HCPC registration as Clinical Scientist or within 12 months of appointment.

Responsibilities

• Provide general Radiotherapy Physics service to North Middlesex Hospital.
• Specialise in one or more sections within Radiotherapy Physics as needed.
• Work with Radiotherapy Radiographers and clinicians to ensure safe delivery of treatments.
• Develop and implement knowledge-based planning and QA automation initiatives.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Problem solving

Clinical engineering

Education

Honours degree in physical science

IPEM training exit certificate

HCPC registration or in progress

Job description

Radiotherapy Physicist (North Middlesex Hospital)

We are pleased to offer an opportunity to join our friendly and forward-thinking radiotherapy physics team atNorth Middlesex Hospitalin North London as aBand 7 Radiotherapy Physicist. This post is ideally suited to candidates who have recently completed the STP and achieved HCPC registration, or those nearing completion and looking to develop strong clinical and technical skills within a supportive team. Our radiotherapy service is equipped with Varian TrueBeam and Halcyon linacs, with Varian Eclipse used for all treatment planning. We have recently commissioned a TrueBeam equipped with HyperSight and AlignRT for SGRT. We also have an XStrahl treatment unit for superficial radiotherapy. The department provides a comprehensive physics service across treatment planning, machine QA, and molecular radiotherapy. You will be able to rotate through each section and contribute to service improvement and innovation alongside routine clinical work. Ongoing developments include knowledge-based planning, QA automation with RadMachine, planning with RapidArcDynamic, and lots more besides. The team includes 10 clinical scientists (including this post), 6 dosimetrists, and 6 engineering and technical staff, creating a collaborative and well-supported working environment. Flexible working is supported across the Trust, with a hybrid model combining on-site and remote working.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will participate in the general Radiotherapy Physics service provision to the North Middlesex Hospital site. The post holder may be required to specialise in one or more sections within the Radiotherapy Physics service.

The physicist's role is to ensure the safe delivery of the Radiotherapy Physics service assisting the Head of the service as well as the designated Medical Physics Experts in their various areas of responsibility.

The post holder will be responsible to the Deputy Head of Radiotherapy Physics and to the Principal Physicists when working in their specific areas.

The post holder will also be expected to work closely with Radiotherapy Radiographers, Clinical Oncologists and Specialist Radiotherapy Registrars.

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICSl's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICSl infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Job responsibilities

1. 1. Clinical Scientific

1.1. Produce routine and complex treatment plans for external beam radiotherapy. Use computerised planning systems to design and customise treatment plans. Take responsibility for the accurate production of individualised treatment plans and associated dosimetry calculations.

1.2. Advise clinical staff on the effects of various treatment plan options on patient dose distributions. Discuss and agree approaches with clinical staff to create optimum treatment plans and advise on aspects of the treatment and patient set-up, as required.

1.3. Check and approve routine and complex treatment plans, dose calculations and templates produced by other members of staff.

2.2. General

2.1. Provide support to Physics computing in Radiotherapy. Write software to the requirements of the department and adapt existing software packages as required. Monitor and resolve problems on computing systems in Radiotherapy and Radiotherapy Physics.

2.2. Participate in acceptance testing and commissioning of new equipment as appropriate.

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role.

Person Specification

Education and Professional Qualifications

• (1st or 2nd class) Honours degree in a physical science or equivalent.
• IPEM training exit certificate or equivalent experience
• Registration as Clinical Scientist with HCPC or achievement within 12 months f appointment

Experience

• Experience in the clinical environment with patients and clinical staff
• Good knowledge of radiotherapy physics, radiotherapy techniques and clinical applications
• Knowledge of appropriate legislation
• Knowledge of relevant anatomy, physiology and pathology

Skills and aptitudes

• Ability to communicate technical material to colleagues and other professionals
• Able to deal with complex and unpredictable situations
• Ability to organise own workload
• Exhibits independent approach to problem solving
• Exhibits a keen interest in research and development

Personal qualities and attributes

• Ability to work as one of a team
• Personal presentation acceptable to clinical staff and patients.
• Ability to show a sympathetic and caring attitude to patients of diverse cultures

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.

£55,524 to £62,652 a yearper annum including HCAS