Senior Treatment Planning Dosimetrist

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking to employ an experienced treatment planning dosimetrist. The main role of this post is to carry out treatment planning and checking as part of the external beam treatment planning team based at the Guy's Cancer Centre.

The Radiotherapy Physics Section is responsible for providing a clinical scientific service to the Radiotherapy Department of Guy’s Cancer Centre. Functions of the section include: carrying out patient radiotherapy treatment planning and checking; advising other clinical staff on the
physics of radiotherapy; measuring patient received doses and radiotherapy treatment equipment output; ensuring the safety of patients and staff in a hazardous environment which includes exposure to high levels of ionising radiation; ensuring equipment is operating safely
and effectively, and investigating complex faults; the evaluation, selection, procurement, installation and acceptance testing of equipment; and supporting research and clinical trials.

Working closely with Clinical Oncology and Radiotherapy, physicists, dosimetrists and technicians provide a wide range of services. The main role of this post is to carry out treatment planning and checking as part of a team in the Treatment Planning service. The post holder will
be responsible on a day to day basis to the Lead Treatment Planning Dosimetrists.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for detailed information regarding the responsibilities and requirements for this post.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust (GSTT) has embarked upon a comprehensive cancer strategy that will shape the future of services for the next generation of cancer patients. We strive to become a world class cancer service, delivering internationally distinctive services that are patient centred, research driven and clinically led. The cancer centres at GSTT and Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup (QMH) have been created so that we can realise this vision.

The Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering at Guys & St. Thomas’ provides a comprehensive range of scientific and technical services to the Trust and external organisations. Its large Radiotherapy Physics and Engineering section works closely with the Radiotherapy Department to deliver high quality patient care on state of the art equipment.

Key Relationships
The post holder will come into contact and liaise closely with a wide range of staff in Radiotherapy and Medical Physics, including medical and nursing staff, administrative support staff, physicists, technicians and radiographers.

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**Responsibilities**:
1. Clinical technical
1.1 Produce routine and complex treatment plans and carry out associated dosimetry calculations, in accordance with clinical prescription and agreed procedures. Check that all patient images required to produce treatment plans are available. Analyse requirements and make complex judgements regarding treatment parameters and patient dose effects to produce the required dose distribution over the treatment volume, using computerised planning systems as appropriate.
1.2 Advise clinical staff on the effects of various treatment plan options on patient dose distributions. Discuss and agree approaches with clinical staff to create optimum treatment plans.
1.3 Provide support to the Mould Room as required. Prepare immobilisation devices for patient treatment as well as other customised aids and shields to facilitate patient set up and treatment.
1.4 Check and approve treatment plans, dose calculations and templates produced by other members of staff.
1.5 Supervise and provide peer review feedback to other staff within the treatment planning section as required e.g. Treatment Planning Dosimetrists and radiotherapy physicists.
1.6 Understand the operation of the treatment machines and appreciate their potential and limitations with regard to treatment techniques. Provide treatment radiographers with advice on planning aspects of the treatment and attend the set-up of patients on machines, as required.
1.7 Replan patient treatments where required, following changes to the treatment regime or patient shape. Use judgement to analyse and determine the most appropriate compensation method. Calculate the compensation required and subsequent patient dose. Carry out dose calculations for review.
1.8 As required, provide support to brachytherapy treatments. Carry out dose calculations and distributions, and attend theatre and patient imaging sessions. Assist with resolving any problems with the procedure, including those arising with the patient present.
1.9 As required, assist with routine patient-specific dosimetry measurements (e.g. DQA, in vivo dosimetry) and machine QA tests.
1.10 As required, attend multi-disciplinary meetings (MDM), advising on any treatment planning issues and acting as liaison on behalf of the treatment planning team. Work with the Lead Treatment Planning Dosimetrists to coordinate individual patient planning
pathways to agreed schedules.

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