Apprentice Radiation Dosimetrist

GET YOUR CAREER STARTED AS AN APPRENTICE AND EARN WHILE YOU LEARN

University Hospitals of Leicester have fantastic opportunities for ambitious individuals to join one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country. Serving the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, we have opportunities to work with experienced staff and develop your future career.

To qualify for the apprenticeship role the minimum criteria is:
- that you must have GCSE in English and Maths
- you do not have a degree/higher qualification
- have not completed an apprentice programme in the past

Do you enjoy working with state of the art equipment?

Do you want to get paid to do a degree?

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic, supportive Radiotherapy Physics team based at Leicester Royal Infirmary in an apprenticeship role. As an apprentice, you will be working towards achieving the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to fulfil that role, supporting the Radiotherapy treatment of cancer patients.

We will support you to gain a B.Sc. (Hons) in Healthcare Science (Medical Physics Technology) at the UWE, Bristol and provide you with practical training locally. This is an opportunity for a motivated individual to enter a field that is short of trained workers, with the aim of ensuring that you are eligible to join the Register of Clinical Technologists at the end of the training period.

The appointment will be made at Annex 21 of Agenda for Change Band 5.

We are looking for someone to invest in for the long term, who wants to stay in Leicester and enjoy a fulfilling career where every day is different and you are directly impacting on and contributing to the care of cancer patients in the region.

The Radiotherapy Physics Division provides a high quality, safe, efficient and highly specialist range of clinical scientific and technical services within the Cancer and Haematology Clinical Business Unit. The services include providing and checking radiotherapy treatment plans for patients, advising clinical staff on radiotherapy physics issues, measuring and calculating patient received doses and radiotherapy treatment equipment output, ensuring the safety of patients and staff in an environment which involves high levels of ionising radiation, ensuring equipment is operating safely and accurately, investigating complex faults in radiotherapy equipment and the evaluation, selection, procurement, installation and acceptance testing of equipment.

We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children’s Hospital and run one of the country’s leading heart centres.

Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.

Our purpose is to provide ‘Caring at its best’ and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we’re here to do. They are:
We focus on what matters most
We treat others how we would like to be treated
We are passionate and creative in our work
We do what we say we are going to do
We are one team and we are best when we work together

Our patients are at the heart of all we do and we believe that ‘Caring at its best’ is not just about the treatments and services we provide, but about giving our patients the best possible experience.

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk)

The following are examples of the duties the apprentice may
undertake. Full training and support will be provided.
To gain a Healthcare Science Practitioner (Clinical Engineering)
Degree, BSc (Hons) by attending University of the West of
England, Bristol. The programme is distance learning with
attendance at university for a period of one week, three times per
year.
Under supervision of the radiotherapy engineering team and
radiotherapy clinical scientists, to develop a detailed engineering
knowledge of radiotherapy treatment equipment including linear
accelerators, CT scanners and other radiotherapy treatment
equipment.
To develop the knowledge, skills and competencies to provide
trouble shooting, problem solving and maintenance functions
effectively, safely and in line with our ISO9001 certified Quality
System and with current legislation relating to radiotherapy
treatment.