Clinical Technologist

4 weeks ago

Cheltenham Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

To provide Radiotherapy Physics services to the Gloucestershire Oncology Centre so that patients' Radiotherapy can be delivered safely, accurately and efficiently using modern techniques and equipment and to provide scientific advice to other staff groups.

Some Saturday working is required. Approximately 1 in 6 weeks

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will contribute to the services provided across the department including treatment plan checking and QC of various pieces of equipment including multimodality Linacs, as well as new projects as they arise. Our work requires flexibility to support the evolving needs of the department and effective communication with clinicians and treatment staff.

About us

The team is part of the larger physics department. We work together in a friendly and supportive way to deliver an excellent service

The radiotherapy service at Cheltenham combines a team of physicists, technologists, engineers, radiographers and clinicians to plan and deliver treatments. We deliver radiotherapy to patients across Gloucestershire with Varian linacs (Clinac iXs & TrueBeams), an Xstrahl superficial unit, an Elekta Flexitron HDR afterloader, and a Canon CT scanner. Treatment planning is carried out with the Pinnacle treatment planning system for external beam radiotherapy and Oncentra for brachytherapy cervix treatments.

We work closely with the diagnostic and nuclear medicine physics teams who operate across Cheltenham and Gloucester, and also provide a service to Hereford County Hospital as a single machine satellite centre for patients across Hereford.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for their contribution to routine work provided by the department in accordance with approved protocols and the health and safety policy of the trust. In their duties, they will be responsible for their actions under the terms of their registration and only practice in areas they are trained and authorized to do so. The full job description provides more details.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

Essential


  • Worked as RT technologist (> 5 months)
  • BSc Physics
  • MSc related to medical physics
  • Understanding of IRR and IR(ME)R
  • Good communication skills
  • 12 months experience in Radiotherapy
  • Good knowledge of Microsoft packages including spreadsheets
  • Ability to manage own work and project work

Desirable


  • HCPC Registered Clinical technologist
  • Ability to deliver presentations or tutorials

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cheltenham General Hospital

Cheltenham

GL53 7AN

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