East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Radiotherapy Late Effects Specialist

The closing date is 05 June 2025

Job summary

Are you a dynamic therapeutic radiographer looking to be a part of a new service and develop your leadership skills by taking forward our new late effects service for radiotherapy patients?

We are looking for a Late Effects Specialist Radiographer to join our Radiotherapy department to develop our new service to deliver specialised care to improve the quality of life of the patients experiencing late effects of cancer and its treatment. This post is 22.5 hours per week, with flexibility on how these hours can be worked.

Working in collaboration with the Head of Radiotherapy, the multidisciplinary team and key stakeholders, you will provide senior leadership and clinical expertise to deliver therapeutic radiographer led clinics, implement new ways of working in order to affect change, develop pathways to enhance more timely management of symptoms and most importantly positively influence the patient outcomes and experience.

You will work across our Colchester and Ipswich Hospital sites at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT), which is one of the largest Trusts and cancer centres in the East of England, acting as an expert resource working to develop standards in late effects of radiotherapy.

Main duties of the job

Alongside the Head of service and operational leads, effectively lead and support clinical teams by applying specialist knowledge and experience of best practice in late effects to drive service improvement.
Provide expert support to patients experiencing debilitating late effects of radiotherapy treatment along with management of symptoms.
Evaluate previous treatment plans to inform on side effects experienced and appropriate management.
Work together with Heads of Service to form collaborative relationships in which to challenge, influence and empower clinical teams to deliver more effective, innovative and high quality services. Collaborate with Cancer support workers, CNS, oncology teams and MDT to establish and trigger referrals for the late effects service.
To promote good working relationships with other members of staff, both internally and externally. To exercise judgement when dealing with sensitive, personal and professional issues with staff using, where appropriate, skills of persuasion, motivation, coaching, empathy and reassurance. As and when required undertake Trust management training.
Ensure at all times patients, carers and relatives are fully considered in the context of care, activity participating in ethical decision-making.
Develop patient and health professional information regarding late effects to aid the early recognition and intervention.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you

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Date posted

23 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

432-HR282-25

Job locations

Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals

Colchester and Ipswich

CO4 5JL

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc in Therapy Radiography
HCPC registered
Specialist training to masters level or equivalent practical practice.
Evidence of sustained personal and professional development

Desirable

Post-graduate qualification in management or clinical field of cancer
Teaching and assessment qualification
Registered independent non-medical prescriber

Experience

Essential

Extensive post qualification experience of working directly with patients, including complex acute and late side effects of cancer treatment.
Experience of patient assessment and consultation
Extensive experience of working directly with multidisciplinary teams, including AHP's, Clinicians and clinical nurse specialists
Evidence of change management to improve and implement service redesign
Demonstrable leadership and management skills.
Feedback from stakeholders and the changing environment
Evidence of multi-disciplinary working in collaboration and coproduction
Expressing ideas and information in an accurate, relevant and timely manner utilising two-way communication
Evidence of working with highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options to inform decisions
Ability to work with complex data and to analyse activity and outcome trends
Demonstrates the ability to convey information appropriate to the target audience
Track record of training and educating others

Desirable

Experience in managing multiple projects /work streams including the interdependencies between projects, issues management and the implementation of corrective actions
Presentation to senior colleagues

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc in Therapy Radiography
HCPC registered
Specialist training to masters level or equivalent practical practice.
Evidence of sustained personal and professional development

Desirable

Post-graduate qualification in management or clinical field of cancer
Teaching and assessment qualification
Registered independent non-medical prescriber

Experience

Essential

Extensive post qualification experience of working directly with patients, including complex acute and late side effects of cancer treatment.
Experience of patient assessment and consultation
Extensive experience of working directly with multidisciplinary teams, including AHP's, Clinicians and clinical nurse specialists
Evidence of change management to improve and implement service redesign
Demonstrable leadership and management skills.
Feedback from stakeholders and the changing environment
Evidence of multi-disciplinary working in collaboration and coproduction
Expressing ideas and information in an accurate, relevant and timely manner utilising two-way communication
Evidence of working with highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options to inform decisions
Ability to work with complex data and to analyse activity and outcome trends
Demonstrates the ability to convey information appropriate to the target audience
Track record of training and educating others

Desirable

Experience in managing multiple projects /work streams including the interdependencies between projects, issues management and the implementation of corrective actions
Presentation to senior colleagues

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

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals

Colchester and Ipswich

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals

Colchester and Ipswich

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

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