Principal Clinical Scientist

2 months ago

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds Teaching Hospitals Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Clinical Scientist to join our Radiotherapy Physics team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. As a Principal Clinical Scientist, you will play a key role in providing expert medical physics support to the provision of radiotherapy within the Trust.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide expert medical physics advice and support to clinical oncologists on technology and treatment
  • Deputise for a Head of Section or other senior staff, and be responsible for the relevant parts of the Sections service in their absence
  • Supervise other staff, assess competency of trainees, and recommend when staff are competent to carry out procedures unsupervised
  • Act as a Medical Physics Expert, providing expert medical physics, radiation protection, and dosimetry advice to clinical oncologists and others in the Trust or outside
  • Manage quality assurance work of the Medical Physics department for relevant systems
  • Monitor the training needs and competencies of the members of the Medical Physics department in the field of radiotherapy physics, and perform training when required
  • Ensure that there is adequate equipment and resources for the areas of work to be carried efficiently
  • Assist in the planning of new radiotherapy facilities, technology, and its use and development
  • Perform acceptance testing on new radiotherapy technology systems and imaging facilities
  • Manage the commissioning of new radiotherapy technology
  • Manage the relevant Quality Assurance data, imaging, and other databases
  • Advise consultant clinical oncologists and management on the implications of radiotherapy treatment and technology innovations
  • Calibrate Radiotherapy treatment machines
  • Develop links between all sections of Radiotherapy Physics
  • Develop and manage relevant data and databases for the archiving of quality assurance, imaging, and dosimetry records
  • Be responsible for relevant radiotherapy data
  • Develop QA equipment and procedures appropriate to new techniques, IMRT, VMAT, SABR, and to develop techniques
  • Use scientific judgment to determine the suitability of highly specialist equipment for clinical use, to carry out risk assessments as appropriate, and to be responsible for removing or approving the equipment for clinical use, reporting the situation to relevant members of staff
  • Maintain equipment and data records
  • Coordinate and provide training as required, in particular, to provide training for physicists, radiographers, clinicians, nurses, and visiting research fellows
  • Ensure that the jobholder or any person working under their supervision works within the appropriate ionising radiation regulations and in particular obeys the local rules
  • Perform duties as a designated Operator, as appropriate, under the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017 (IRMER)
  • Participate in national professional groups to develop national guidelines
  • Liaise with equipment manufacturers, materials, and component suppliers, external contractors, and different NHS Trust employees as part of their normal duties, including the relaying and discussion of highly complex information, over equipment or software faults
Requirements
  • Qualifications, knowledge, and experience to act as Medical Physics Expert under IR(ME)R within the field of radiotherapy
  • Expert knowledge and extensive practical experience of all main areas of radiotherapy physics, particularly radiation physics, radiotherapy technology, radiation dosimetry, computing, and planning
  • Acceptance testing and commissioning of radiotherapy equipment, other technology, and Quality Assurance Techniques
  • Radiation Protection
  • Understanding of all aspects of patient progress through radiotherapy and the requirements of a radiotherapy physics service to ensure that it is performed in a safe and accurate manner
  • Detailed understanding of patient and staff risks arising from the use of ionising radiation and radioactive sources for radiotherapy
  • Detailed understanding of relevant legislation, national standards, codes of practice, professional, and other guidelines
Desirable Qualifications and Skills
  • Working knowledge of CT, PET-CT, MRI, and ultrasound imaging
  • Understanding of research matters, including study design, funding, and ethical issues
  • Project management
  • Linear Accelerator manufacturers training courses
  • Software Development Tools
  • Clinical Radiobiology
  • Monte Carlo computational Techniques
  • International Standards (IEC, DICOM, etc)
How to Apply

Please submit your application, including your CV and a covering letter, to [insert contact information]. We look forward to hearing from you.

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