Senior Dosimetrist

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We have Band 6 post, for an enthusiastic, experienced, highly motivated and dynamic treatment planner/dosimetrist, looking to develop further advanced planning skills and engage in development work.

If you are a radiographer or healthcare science practitioner (technologist) who can bring fresh ideas and a passion for team working then we would love to hear from you.

Operating mainly from our Charing Cross site our equipment portfolio includes five TrueBeam Linacs, a recently installed Siemens Somatom go. Open Pro CT scanner and an Xstrahl unit; our Elekta Flexitron Brachytherapy unit is based at Hammersmith Hospital in a dedicated brachytherapy suite. Two of the TrueBeam have the ExacTrac system and 6DoF couches and one the Truebeams is equipped with SGRT. Our main TPS is Raystation and the service delivers SABR for a number of sites including lung and spine, with other SABR sites to be implemented in the next twelve months. The department provides stereotactic cranial radiotherapy (SRS), which is delivered on the TrueBeam STx and planned using the Brainlab Elements TPS.

Applicants with less experience may be considered for a role at a lower band.

Main duties of the job

• To design safe and accurate radiation treatment plans that achieve desirable outcomes.
• To promote high standards of health care for our patients.
• To work well as part of a multidisciplinary team operating in a quality driven environment.
• To show aptitude and enthusiasm to achieve departmental and personal goals.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Honours degree in a relevant subject (physics, clinical technology, radiography or engineering).
• HCPC Registration (if radiographer) or eligible for registration as a Clinical Technologist on the Register of Clinical Technologists (RCT) or AHCS

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate study in related specialist subjects.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of complex planning on a TPS covering a variety of treatment sites and techniques.
• Supervisory experience.
• Good knowledge of treatment and verification procedures in radiotherapy.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of the following Oncology/TPS: Raystation, Brainlab, Aria, Eclipse

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Treatment planning skills sufficient to produce complex conformal radiotherapy plans and supporting documentation.
• Organisation skills to efficiently manage personal workload.
• Education skills sufficient to train students, dosimetrist, etc.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of participation in audit or other service delivery improvements.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.