Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Therapy radiographer

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Job summary

Radiotherapy Radiographer Band 5

Are you a newly qualified or about to qualify Radiographer looking to take their early steps in your Radiotherapy career? Do you want to work in a forward thinking and technically advanced department? If this is you, then why not become part of our excellent clinical team at St Lukes Cancer Centre?

Our main site is based at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford and our satellite centre is based at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill. Guildford gives easy access to the beautiful North & South Downs Way, is an hour from the coast and has great transport links to the surrounding counties of Berkshire, Hampshire and Sussex. The city offers cultural diversity, is home to the University of Surrey and it is great place to reside and explore.

Our satellite centre in Redhill is closely integrated with our main site. Situated within easy access to London, and surrounded by beautiful Surrey countryside. It offers you the opportunity to work in a smaller team and broaden your clinical skills with the chance to follow a patient throughout their treatment pathway. This is an excellent opportunity for CPD which is not always achievable in larger departments and establishments. Additionally, your wellbeing is important to us and as such we offer clinical staff a 9 day fortnight working pattern giving you the opportunity to have a fixed day off every two weeks.

Main duties of the job

St Lukes Cancer Centre is focused on providing excellent patient pathways and patient-centred care. We strive to continuously evolve to reflect the technical advances within Radiotherapy. We are one of the first UK departments to have a Varian ETHOS which enable us to deliver adaptive Radiotherapy. This complements our six Varian TrueBeams and 3 CT Scanners across the two sites. We use MR imaging in treatment planning and further development of PET/CT is underway. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to rotate through treatment, pre-treatment, data prep, Gulmay, HDR brachytherapy and Radiotherapy Research facilitating their professional and personal growth, ready for promotion.

You will, no matter what your grade banding, be empowered to learn, grow and progress your career. We offer a variety of CPD opportunities and have strong links with Macmillan giving us access to valuable learning to ensure that our staff are the best that they can be.

The post could be based at either of our sites and both permanent and fixed term contract opportunities are available.

We look forward to meeting with you should you feel that you would like to become part of our St Lukes team.

Should you require more information or have any questions regarding this role please contact our Operational Managers team on 01483 571122 Ext 6609.

About us

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is a friendly, supportive, busy but welcoming acute and community Trust that is ambitious about developing our services and your career.

Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development. There are over 4,500 members of our Royal Surrey family.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in the community and homes across Guildford and Waverley.

We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC. We are investing in our colleagues through our health and wellbeing programme and a commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.

There has never been a better time to join us.

Date posted

01 December 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,408 to £34,581 a year INC HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9384-AGB-EMF12614

Job locations

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare Nhs Trust

Canada Avenue

Redhill

Surrey

RH1 5RH

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Radiotherapy Radiographer working as part of a radiotherapy team, you will be under the supervision of Team Leader Radiographers. You will undertake all elements of the treatment pathway including the preparing and delivering of radiotherapy treatment using highly specialist equipment.

The post holder will be required to work in all areas of the department and have a flexible approach to rota changes.

As a key element of the role, the post holder will provide information, education, practical and emotional support to patients and carers during their radiotherapy episode.

The St Lukes Radiotherapy Department is based at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford and has a satellite service based at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill. This post is based at the Guildford hospital but will include working at both sites.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be required to work in all areas of the department and have a flexible approach to rota changes.

As a key element of the role, the post holder will provide information, education, practical and emotional support to patients and carers during their radiotherapy episode.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Evidence of continuous personal, professional and academic development
HCPC Registration
BSc Radiotherapy or DCR (T)

Experience

Essential

Use of computerised department record and verify systems

Desirable

Experience of working in a radiotherapy department on a wide range of radiotherapy equipment
Experience of collaborating with other staff-groups
Post-registration Experience
Experience of IGRT and/or IGRT

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Evidence of continuous personal, professional and academic development
HCPC Registration
BSc Radiotherapy or DCR (T)

Experience

Essential

Use of computerised department record and verify systems

Desirable

Experience of working in a radiotherapy department on a wide range of radiotherapy equipment
Experience of collaborating with other staff-groups
Post-registration Experience
Experience of IGRT and/or IGRT

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare Nhs Trust

Canada Avenue

Redhill

Surrey

RH1 5RH

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare Nhs Trust

Canada Avenue

Redhill

Surrey

RH1 5RH

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)