Band 8A SRS Specialist Practitioner Therapeutic Radiographer

We are looking for someone to join our Radiotherapy team as SRS Specialist Practitioner Therapeutic Radiographer. This is a brand new post created as a result of a successful bid to NHSE to provide stereotactic radiosurgery treatments (in partnership with Barts Health).

The Oncology department is a well-equipped centre treating patients from across East London and Essex, committed to introducing the latest treatment techniques and equipment. External beam radiotherapy is delivered on Varian Halcyon, Edge, and Ethos Therapy linacs. The department was the first in the country to treat patients on Halcyon, and to treat patients with on-line adaptive radiotherapy on Ethos. The Edge is our stereotactic machine, with HDMLC, 4D-CBCT, 6 DoF couch, and HyperArc-enabled. Aria is cloud-based, hosted by Varian. Treatment planning is done on Eclipse 17 (with RapidPlan and MCO licences) and in Ethos, with auto-contouring on Limbus.

The department fully supports a wide range of clinical trials,and has an excellent selection of QA devices and software. We have a new Siemens go.Sim CT scanner which went clinical recently; within the last two years we have introduced HyperSight on Ethos and Identify SGRT on all linacs. Our current commissioned SABR treatments are lung, bone (non-spine), nodes, adrenal nodes, and spine, and we are about to start intra-cranial SRS. A full linac refresh is due in 2027.

Candidates are strongly encouraged to get in touch; Siobhan Graham )

This purpose of the role is to lead and develop radiographic aspects of the stereotactic radiotherapy service, including the care and management of SRT, SRS and SABR patients, supporting them through the whole pathway from initial referral into the service and onwards into follow up after treatment.

As a highly skilled and experienced Therapeutic Radiographer you will be working at Specialist Practitioner level; and as such will offer expert practice, clinical leadership and consultancy input to the neurology team and the wider radiotherapy community, under the supervision of the Head of Radiotherapy.

To be lead specialist for the radiographer aspects of the stereotactic radiotherapy service, working within codes of practice and professional guidelines with accountability for own actions.

You will be expected to support stereotactic patients through regular reviews on treatment and provide appropriate care in the management of their symptoms and side effects.

You will additionally participate in pre-treatment and treatment activities but your role will focus on the management and development of your area of advanced practice. The post holder will maintain the highest professional and technical standards of radiotherapy.

You will support the other 8A Radiotherapy Superintendent with the line management of the Band 5-7 Therapeutic Radiographers.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we've been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Nichola Ceesay, Recruitment Advisor, on ext Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.