Senior Radiotherapy Engineer
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Job summary
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust in Lincoln is seeking a motivated Senior Radiotherapy Engineer (Band 7) to join the Radiotherapy Physics Department at Lincoln County Hospital. The post involves working to IRR/IRMER and COSHH safety guidelines and providing specialist technical services.
You will assist in delivering the technological aspects of radiotherapy service, calibrate treatment machines, and contribute to service quality while supporting weekend and bank holiday cover as required.
Qualifications
- Recognised degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience.
- Post-graduate degree at Master's level, or equivalent level of specialist knowledge.
- On the RCT or AHCS PTP Register.
Responsibilities
- Communicate complex information relating to specialist procedures to colleagues.
- Develop positive working relationships at all levels in connection with their service.
- Responsible for ensuring effective communications within their service and across professional boundaries, overcoming barriers to understanding.
- Provide accurate oral and written reports.
Skills
Education
Job description
The closing date is 26 October 2026
We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic radiation engineer to join our team.
The Radiotherapy Physics Department Provides a Specialist Technical Radiotherapy Physics Service To The Lincolnshire Oncology Centre, Contributing To Safe Treatment Of Patients For Radiotherapy. It Is Responsible For Ensuring The Accurate Calibration Of All Radiotherapy Treatment Machines And Providing a Routine Quality Control Service For All Equipment Used In Simulating, Planning, Verifying And Treating Radiotherapy Patients.This Role Contributes To These Activities And Will Include:
- Assist in the delivery of the technological aspects of radiotherapy service.
- Assist in providing professional technological leadership in an area of expertise locally.
- Assist in maintaining and developing high standards of service provision throughout their area of responsibility.
- Assists in developing, implementing and monitoring clinical and organisational strategies within areas of expertise.
- Contributes to service and staff development.
- Responsibilities in specialist project areas.
This role will require occasional weekend working and contribute to bank holiday cover.
The post provides the comprehensive expertise and experience necessary for the department to operate clinical linear accelerators to the required legislation and national guidelines. A large degree of versatility, both in working patterns and skills base, is required to provide the immediate emergency coverage required during normal working hours and to effect permanent repairs during non-treatment hours. In addition both planned and corrective maintenance is performed to enhance the availability and reliability of the service.
Maintain clinical accelerators requiring core practical and theoretical electronic skills.
Engage in the activity and maintenance of the quality management system.
Attend necessary training courses required in the performance of your duties.
Ensure that all activities conform to statutory regulations, local rules and approved codes of practice, in particular IRR and IRMER and the use of radioactive substances.
Follow all the safety precautions relating to COSHH and Health & Safety regulations when dealing with radioactive and chemical products. Engage in the activities of a mechanical workshop including production of applicator cutouts and other items to the benefit of the radiotherapy service.
The post holder may be required to perform duties outside the normal working hours of the department, including weekends (on-call and service work) and contribute to bank holiday cover.
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Date posted 05 October 2026
Pay scheme Agenda for change
Band Band 7
Salary £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annuam
Contract Permanent
Working pattern Full-time
Reference number 357-LN-541-26-A
Job locations Lincoln County Hospital
Lincoln
LN2 5QY
United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
- Communicate complex information relating to specialist procedures to colleagues.
- Develop positive working relationships at all levels in connection with their service.
- Responsible for ensuring effective communications within their service and across professional boundaries, overcoming barriers to understanding.
- Provide accurate oral and written reports.
- Interpretation and formulation of complex technical data.
- To have the scientific skills to interpret results and form a judgement on their significance in situations from a range of possible options.
- For example, when carrying out a repair on a linac, deciding on how best to affect a repair considering the various active systems.
- Plans a complex range of activities in accordance with Trust objectives, standards and priorities, including the formulation and adjustment of plans.
- For example, organising the part for a repair, arranging delivery, coordinating time in a busy schedule to carry out the repair and communicating with the necessary staff members to return the machine to clinical use.
- Ability to operate medical equipment safely and effectively for prolonged periods of time.
- Provide highly specialist technical service.
- To provide technical assistance and advice to medical staff or other health care professionals performing clinical investigations or interventions.
- To ensure patient safety with the use of commercially manufactured equipment and systems ensuring that these are adequately maintained, calibrated and tested. For example, creating a custom cutout that needs to be quality assured before clinical use.
- To be aware of relevant legal and statutory issues, international standards, and guidelines for best practice.
- Implementing local, departmental and Trust policies to meet legal and statutory requirements at all times, for example in relation to the data protection act.
- Contributes to discussions on changes to policies within own area to ensure they reflect best practice, thus maintaining and improving the quality of the services.
- Ensure new or amended protocols and procedures are correctly and uniformly implemented within own work area.
- To be responsible for the safe use of expensive highly complex equipment.
- Order supplies for area of work.
- Trains Other Engineers And Other Healthcare Professionals As Required.
- To audit services to contribute to clinical governance.
- The post holder is expected to work independently, within professional guidelines, and use their own judgement to determine when it is necessary to refer to their line manager for guidance.
- To be expected to act in a manner consistent with the best interests of the patient, and the highest standards of safety to staff, other persons and the environment.
There are frequent periods of concentration while using technical software.
Frequent requirement for concentration in repair work where work pattern is unpredictable. For example, stay after planned work hours to effect a repair of a treatment machine to help the service.
Occasional exposure to distressing circumstances. For example, being occasionally in proximity to cancer patients receiving radiotherapy.
- Recognised Degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience
- Appropriate post-graduate degree at Master's level, or equivalent level of specialist knowledge
- On the RCT or AHCS PTP Register
- Management training, e.g. ILM level 3
- Recent Radiation Protection Supervisor certificate
- Ability to service, repair and calibrate complex medical and scientific equipment using appropriate test instrumentation
- Ability to use precision test and measurement equipment safely and effectively
- Specialist knowledge of electrical and electronic engineering, electro-mechanical and computer systems
- Working knowledge of relevant legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines, local rules and safety practices, e.g., ISO 9001, BSI standards, COSHH
- Awareness of Radiation protection considerations of sealed, unsealed and x-ray generator sources
- Specialist training and practical experience on linear accelerators, CT scanners and other radiotherapy equipment
- Extensive practical experience in radiation equipment servicing, workshop practices and techniques, covering preventative maintenance, servicing, calibration and quality control, inspection, repair and safety
- Broad experience in the radiotherapy field
- Completion of relevant manufacturers certified training
- High-level literacy, numeracy and accuracy
- Able to communicate complex information to other professional groups, including manufacturers
- Ability to work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines and maintain technical services
- Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining safety and quality standards
- Ability to work in line with and role model Group values
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships at all levels
- Professional approach to dealing with staff and patients
- Actively embeds sustainability values into everyday practice and supports consistent application by colleagues
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
Employer name United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Address Lincoln County Hospital
Lincoln
LN2 5QY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ulh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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