Associate Healthcare Science Practitioner - Radiotherapy Physics

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Northwood (IA); On-site; USD 53,000 - 64,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

High Cost Area Supplement

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust seeks an Associate Healthcare Science Practitioner - Radiotherapy Physics to support the radiotherapy physics team. You will coordinate patient scans, input CT data into planning systems, and assist with QA tasks.

The role is 0.5 WTE for one year with morning hours preferred; responsible for IR(ME)R procedures and providing admin support to the team.

Qualifications

• Coordinate input of patient scans and data into the department.
• Input CT and other image data into treatment planning systems.
• Assist with standard quality assurance tasks on QA equipment.

Responsibilities

• Book in patient data and assign appropriate care paths.
• Assess urgency of plans and inform lead clinical scientist.
• Transfer CT data from scanner to treatment planning system and ensure correct orientation.

Skills

CT data handling

QA testing

Image data input

Tools

Treatment planning system

Job description

Associate Healthcare Science Practitioner - Radiotherapy Physics

Company:

Company: East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

A Vacancy at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.

We are recruiting for an Associate Healthcare Science Practitioner - Radiotherapy Physics who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Associate practitioner works with the radiotherapy physics team providing support for routine tasks. This will involve co-ordinating input of patient scans and data into the department and assigning appropriate care paths, inputting CT and other image data into the treatment planning systems, outlining standard organs, assisting with brachytherapy theatre sessions, performing standard tests on quality assurance equipment.

This role plays a practical part in the patient’s treatment pathway and as such the postholder is classified as an operator under IR(ME)R and must take responsibility for following departmental IR(ME)R procedures.

The post holder also provides administrative support to the physics team with approximately 75% of the time spent on healthcare science duties and 25% on administration.

This post is 0.5Wte for 1 year. Hours of work will be discussed with candidates during interview. The department currently prefers candidate who are able to work in the morning.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Book in patient data into the physics department and assigns appropriate care path from a list of options. Assess urgency of the plan and inform lead clinical scientist of any urgent plans

Contact patients whose treatment start dates need to be changed

Transfers patient CT data from the scanner to the treatment planning system – this is done electronically

Fuses image sets from different imaging modalities ensuring correct orientation of scans and that correct scan set is used

Prepares CT data for clinician contouring and treatment planning

Submits patient data for clinical trials

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £4,870and a maximum payment of £6,137per annum pro rata.

Please see the attached job description which outlines more fully the roles and responsibilities of this post.

This advert closes on Wednesday 28 Oct 2026

£39,959 - £48,117 per annum, plus 15% High Cost Area Supplement

£25,760 - £27,476 per annum, plus 15% High Cost Area Supplement