Radiotherapy Assistant

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated person to join our friendly Radiotherapy team, Radiotherapy is the safe use of radiation to treat patients diagnosed with cancer.

If you feel you want to make a difference, we will provide the training.
- Provide a friendly and welcoming environment demonstrating excellent interpersonal and communication skills as first point of contact for patients/carers and visitors.
- To answer telephone enquiries in an efficient manner and ensure appropriate follow through using initiative to deal with routine enquiries and referring complex queries to the relevant members of staff
- Assist patients and their families with general and personal care maintaining privacy and dignity in line with Trust policy.
- Complete clinical support duties within scope and competency
- Act as chaperone for clinic appointments,
- Undertake general administrative duties eg scanning documents,
- Manage and organise consultants/Radiographer review/ new patient clinics

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.