Therapeutic Radiographer

NHS; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development opportunities

Staff benefits including EAP and gym

Onsite fitness classes

Job summary

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated Therapeutic Radiographer to join our Radiotherapy Department. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality patient care using state-of-the-art equipment, including three Varian Truebeam accelerators with Vision RT Surface Guided Radiotherapy and a Halcyon system.

The post offers opportunities for CPD and role development within a progressive teaching centre linked with Sheffield Hallam University.

Responsibilities

• Provide efficient high-quality radiotherapy patient care across all areas of the Radiotherapy Department, including emergency commitments.
• Deliver Radiotherapy and Brachytherapy treatment, CT, treatment planning and clinics with accurate planning for each patient.
• Contribute to shift working, weekend and Bank Holiday cover as required by service needs.

Job description

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

With over 14,000 members of staff, you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust are fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme

To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities. This commitment is to guarantee an interview for any candidate that has disclosed a disability under the Equality Act 2010 and who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

if you are blind or visually impaired and require application material in an alternative format- such as Braille, large print, audio or accessible electronic formats or you require support/adjustments with your application please contact the recruitment team on 01332 788466

The Trust is proud to be a signatory of the Care Leavers Covenant and is committed to supporting care-experienced people into employment.

Applicants who identify as a care leaver and who meet the essential criteria for the role, as detailed in the person specification, will be guaranteed an interview.

If you wish to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this within your application.

Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for;

Job overview

We believe that every Therapeutic Radiographer working for us, plays a key role in improving patient experience and wellbeing, by providing the best possible care, using unique skills of the profession.

We’re looking for passionate and committed individuals, who share our values, and want to invest in continuously improving patient experience.

If you’re a qualified Therapeutic Radiographer looking for a new challenge, or a student due to qualify soon, and you feel passionate about patient care, then we would love to hear from you.

We have 3 Varian Truebeam linear accelerators all with Vision RT Surface Guided Radiotherapy along with a Varian Halcyon linear accelerator.

Our other equipment includes Philips Big Bore CT with full Ambient Lighting Experience, Superficial Xray Therapy; Nucletron HDR Brachytherapy; and Eclipse external beam planning system. We operate all equipment on the Varian ARIA platform. We are a reference site for Vision RT and Philips.

As a progressive teaching centre for Student Radiotherapists the trust has established links with Sheffield Hallam University where our educational facilities include a seminar room. The Trust actively encourages CPD and role extension with support available to pursue academic courses to further develop and enhance your skills.

Main duties of the job

To work as a Therapeutic Radiographer within the radiotherapy team to provide an efficient high-quality service of patient care and treatment, across all areas of the Radiotherapy Department; both during normal and extended working hours, and within an emergency / on-call commitment.

The Therapeutic radiographers cover all aspects of departmental workload & patient care: including Radiotherapy & Brachytherapy treatment, CT, treatment planning and clinics. The postholder will work within the team to deliver & record complex and highly accurate treatment & planning procedures for each patient, taking individual responsibility for one’s actions within the whole team.

A contribution to shift working, weekend working and Bank Holiday cover, including Category 1 commitment is required in this post, as dictated by service need including the treatment of patients within an emergency service commitment.

To ensure the provision of an efficient high quality service of patient care and treatment, from all areas within the Radiotherapy Treatment Suite; both during normal and extended working hours and within an emergency service commitment.

Closing date of applications: 19 November 2026

Interview date: 3 December 2026

Working for our organisation

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and Person Specification. This post is subject to fair and transparent recruitment and welcomes authentic applications that reflect your own skills, experience and motivations for the role. While we understand that candidates may use AI tools for grammar, formatting or accessibility purposes, applications that appear to be substantially AI‑generated may be subject to additional review. If this applies to your submission, we will let you know and may ask for clarification. Please ensure your application accurately represents your experience and is written in your own words.

Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, we may be unable to provide sponsorship.

During the course of its employment activities, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust collects, stores and processes personal information about prospective, current and former staff.

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UHDB is committed to fair and transparent recruitment. We welcome authentic applications that reflect your own skills, experience and motivations for the role. While we understand that candidates may use AI tools for grammar, formatting or accessibility purposes, applications that appear to be substantially AI‑generated may be subject to additional review. If this applies to your submission, we will let you know and may ask for clarification. Please ensure your application accurately represents your experience and is written in your own words.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Please ensure that you had read the Job Description and Person Spec and that you meet the criteria before applying.