Senior Dosimetrist in 317 01 Freeman Hospital in317 01 Freeman Hospital PUBLISHED FRI 24 JAN 2025 Jump to job information section

An opportunity has arisen within The Northern Centre for Cancer Care for an experienced Clinical Technologist, Dosimetrist or Therapeutic Radiographer to act as a Senior Dosimetrist in the Radiotherapy Centre.

The post is based at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.There will be the opportunity to participate in developments and may be required to provide supervision and training for junior staff. Current experience of radiotherapy treatment planning is essential, and the post holder will be supported through a comprehensive in-house competency based training programme in treatment planning for a wide range of treatment sites.

Radiotherapy treatment planning is undertaken on Raystation. The Dosimetry teams work as a large combined service between both sites of NCCC in Newcastle and Carlisle allowing ample opportunity for the post holder to deepen their experience of complex treatment planning techniques.

• Interview Date: 3 March 2025

• 37 hours 30 minutes/week

• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

• Managing the daily organisation of own workload to ensure the delivery of the highly specialist external beam radiotherapy dose planning service to the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC).
• For individual patients, designing the radiotherapy plan and determining the treatment parameters on a treatment planning system.
• For individual patients, validating treatment data generated to ensure its integrity and appropriateness for clinical use and exporting it for treatment.
• Responsible, with the clinician, for designing highly complex plans for individual patients with particular dosimetric problems and where appropriate communicating the complex information of the plan to other staff groups.
• Participating in research development projects from inception to completion.
• Contribute to the delivery of training and education of all staff groups and visitors to the section.

About us

The post holder is responsible for providing technical aspects of the radiotherapy dose planning service at Freeman Hospital or Cumberland Infirmary site for patients at The Northern Centre for Cancer Care.

The post holder is responsible for ensuring effective communications within their service and across professional boundaries, overcoming barriers to understanding.

The post holder works independently, within occupational guidelines, and is responsible for management of their own workload.

The post holder is expected to be involved in research and development projects as required.

Job Purpose

• Providing the technical aspects of the radiotherapy dose planning service at Freeman Hospital site
• Performs a range of specialist healthcare science activities
• Involvement in research and development projects

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.