Senior Radiotherapy Engineer - Band 7

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Annual Leave

Flexible working

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Radiotherapy Engineer (Band 7) to join the Radiotherapy Physics team at Lincoln County Hospital. The role includes maintenance, calibration and quality control of radiotherapy equipment, with potential weekend and early/late shifts as rotaed.

Salary £49,387 - £56,515, full-time, permanent. The post emphasizes clinical leadership, safety, and service development within a major NHS trust serving Lincolnshire and neighbouring

Qualifications

• Recognised Degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience.
• Post-graduate degree at Master’s level or equivalent specialist knowledge.
• On the RCT or AHCS PTP Register.
• Management training, e.g. ILM level 3.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in radiotherapy physics and service delivery.
• Maintain and develop high standards of service in the radiotherapy department.
• Ensure compliance with IRR/IRMER and COSHH in all activities.
• Repair, calibrate and maintain linear accelerators and related equipment.
• Contribute to policy, service development and staff training.

Skills

Equipment servicing and calibration

Precision measurement

Radiation protection knowledge

Education

Recognised degree in relevant subject

Post-graduate degree (Masters)

RC T or AHCS PTP Register

Management training (ILM 3)

Tools

Test instrumentation

Job description

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

Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Lincoln County Hospital Town Lincoln Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annuam Salary period Yearly Closing 26/10/2026 23:59

Senior Radiotherapy Engineer - Band 7

NHS AfC: Band 7

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 a treatment machine to help the service.

Emotional Effort

Occasional exposure to distressing circumstances. For example, being occasionally in proximity to cancer patients receiving radiotherapy.

Person specification

Qualifications

• 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

Skills

• 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

Knowledge

• 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

Experience

• 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

Specific Requirements

• 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

Personal Qualities

• 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 to everyday practice and supports consistent application by colleagues

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

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Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.