Senior Radiotherapy Engineer - Band 7

United Lincolnshire Hospitals; Lincoln; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Annual Leave 27-33 days (plus bank hol

On-site parking

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Hospitals is seeking a motivated Radiotherapy Physics professional to join the Lincolnshire Oncology Centre. The role focuses on delivering a high-standard radiotherapy physics service, ensuring accurate calibration of treatment machines and routine quality control for equipment used in planning, verification and treatment.

The post involves a full-time contract (37.5 hours per week) with potential early starts or late finishes and rotaed weekend working.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

We are committed to developing a workforce that reflects the community it serves and welcome applicants from all sectors of the community.

Main area Radiotherapy Physics Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Can include early starts (6am) or late finish and rotaed weekend working) Job ref 357-LN-541-26-A

Site Lincoln County Hospital Town Lincoln Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annuam Salary period Yearly Closing 26/10/2026 23:59

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

• Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
• Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
• Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Communication and Relationship Skills

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.

Analytical and Judgemental Skills

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.

Planning and Organisational Skills

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.

Responsibilities for Policy and Service Development Implementation

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.

Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

To be responsible for the safe use of expensive highly complex equipment.

Order supplies for area of work.

Responsibility for human resources (including training)

Trains other Engineers and other healthcare professionals as required.

Responsibilities for research and development

To audit services to contribute to clinical governance.

Freedom to Act

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.

Mental Effort

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