Senior Dosimetrist

Newcastle Hospitals; Carlisle; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Dosimetrist to join the radiotherapy dose planning team at the Cumberland Infirmary site in Carlisle. You will design highly complex treatment plans, validate data, and contribute to research projects while coordinating workload and training staff.

The role requires HCPC registration, an honours degree in radiotherapy oncology, and extensive experience in dose planning.

Qualifications

• Honours degree in radiotherapy oncology or equivalent.
• Registration with HCPC or RCT.
• Up-to-date knowledge of medical physics applied to treatment planning, radiotherapy physics, imaging and treatment.

Responsibilities

• Providing the technical aspects of the radiotherapy dose planning service at Freeman Hospital/Cumberland Infirmary sites.
• Performs a range of specialist healthcare science activities.
• Involvement in research and development projects.

Skills

Independent work

Team player

Time management

Numerical skills

3D spatial awareness

Report writing

Education

Honours degree in radiotherapy oncology

Tools

Treatment Planning System

Job description

Go back The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Dosimetrist

The closing date is 01 November 2026

• As a registered Dosimetrist, Clinical Technologist or Therapeutic Radiographer you will be responsible for supporting the Dose Planning section and wider Radiotherapy Department ensuring that our service users' needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care.
• The Dosimetry Team is split across two sites one at Newcastle and one in Carlisle.
• This post is for a position based at the Cumberland Infirmary Site in (Carlisle)
• The post holder is responsible for providing technical aspects of the radiotherapy dose planning service at Cumberland Infirmary site or Freeman Hospital for patients having their treatment delivered at North Cumbria Integrated Care and The Northern Centre for Cancer Care.
• The post holder is responsible for ensuring effective communications within their service and across professional boundaries, overcoming barriers to understanding.
• The post holder works independently, within occupational guidelines, and is responsible for management of their own workload.
• The post holder is expected to be involved in research and development projects as required.
• The post holder will be supported through a comprehensive in-house competency-based training programme.
• Involvement in research and development projects.

Please be advised we can only support face to face interviews at this time.

• Interview Date Monday 16 November 2026

Main duties of the job

• Managing the daily organisation of own workload to ensure the delivery of the highly specialist external beam radiotherapy dose planning service to North Cumbria Integrated Care (NCIC) and the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC).
• For individual patients, designing the radiotherapy plan and determining the treatment parameters on a treatment planning system.
• For individual patients, validating treatment data generated to ensure its integrity and appropriateness for clinical use and exporting it for treatment.
• Responsible, with the clinician, for designing highly complex plans for individual patients with dosimetric problems and where appropriate communicating the complex information of the plan to other staff groups.
• Participating in research development projects from inception to completion.
• Contribute to the delivery of training and education of all staff groups and visitors to the section.

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 Careers at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit our website: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job responsibilities

• Providing the technical aspects of the radiotherapy dose planning service at Freeman Hospital/Cumberland Infirmary sites
• Performs a range of specialist healthcare science activities
• Involvement in research and development projects

KNOWLEDGE

• oUp to date knowledge of relevant areas of medical physics applied to treatment planning, radiotherapy physics, imaging and treatment
• oGood understanding of 3D anatomy and physiology
• oEvidence of knowledge of clinical oncology
• oEvidence of knowledge of current scientific and technological developments in radiotherapy treatment including imaging modalities

SKILLS

• oAbility to work independently and as a team member
• oAbility to work accurately in all areas of work
• oEfficient time management and organizational skills
• oEvidence of numerical skills and 3D spatial awareness
• oEvidence of competence in report writing and information presentation
• oGood data collection and analysis skills

EXPERIENCE

• oExperience of Radiotherapy Treatment, Imaging, Dose Planning or Medical Physics in previous employment
• oExperience of radiotherapy treatment planning
• oEvidence of completed research and development projects

QUALIFICATIONS

• oHonours degree in a related subject such as radiotherapy oncology or an equivalent qualification
• oRegistration with the HCPC or RCT

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.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust