Radiotherapy Engineer

Freeman Hospital; Carthage (MO); On-site; USD 45,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Freeman Hospital is seeking a Radiotherapy Engineer (Band 6) to join the Radiotherapy Engineering Group. The successful candidate will perform maintenance and fault diagnosis on radiotherapy equipment, ensuring high reliability to support patient treatments.

Based primarily at Freeman Hospital, with work on related sites as required. Experience in engineering maintenance, with an apprenticeship or equivalent, and aim for professional registration as a Clinical Technologist with RCT or AHCS is

Qualifications

• Applications are invited from candidates with a degree level qualification or equivalent experience in an appropriate discipline, and demonstrable relevant experience, having completed a recognised engineering, technical apprenticeship or training course.
• Post holder will be expected to work towards professional registration as a Clinical Technologist with RCT or AHCS.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance of Radiotherapy and ancillary equipment.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance on treatment machines.
• Accurate fault diagnosis and effective repairs.
• Monitor trends for equipment reliability.
• Quality Control of Radiotherapy Systems.
• Work within a Quality Management System.
• Undertake quality control for equipment.
• Support provision of Radiotherapy Engineering Service.

Job description

• Cramlington Manor Walks

Employer heading

Radiotherapy Engineer

Band 6

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

The Radiotherapy Engineering Group at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) is looking for a motivated engineer to join our team.

Radiotherapy engineers are part of a team responsible for the electromechanical maintenance of equipment used in the delivery of radiotherapy treatment.

NCCC is based at both the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle and Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle and provides a highly specialised clinical service for the treatment of cancer patients. The successful candidate will be based primarily at the Freeman Hospital but will be required to work on both sites as the work demands.

The department is equipped with Varian Linear Accelerators and specific training for this equipment will be given if required.

The responsibilities of REG Engineers include ensuring treatment machines function correctly and therefore enable patient treatment, applying fault diagnosis skills, engineering knowledge and IT knowledge to minimise clinical downtime, carrying out planned preventative and unplanned corrective maintenance, and providing the technical, engineering‑related input to multidisciplinary radiotherapy service team. REG also works closely with the clinical and scientific Radiotherapy teams to balance the needs of the service.

• Interview Date Monday 16 November 2026
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job

REG Radiotherapy Engineers specialise in the provision of Radiotherapy Service. The main duties for a Radiotherapy Engineer are:

• Maintenance of Radiotherapy and ancillary equipment
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance on treatment machines
• Accurate fault diagnosis and effective repairs
• Monitor trends for equipment reliability
• Quality Control of Radiotherapy Systems
• Work within a Quality Management System
• Undertake quality control for equipment
• Support Provision of Radiotherapy Engineering Service
• Participating in research development projects when required.

Applications are invited from candidates with a degree level qualification or who have equivalent experience in an appropriate discipline, and have demonstrable relevant experience, having completed a recognised engineering, technical apprenticeship or training course. In addition, the post holder will be expected to work towards professional registration as a Clinical Technologist with RCT or AHCS.

REG Radiotherapy Engineers work independently or as part of multidisciplinary teams, providing specialist engineering services and technical knowledge enabling patient care.

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting‑edge care (supported by state‑of‑the‑art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents