# Clinical Research Doctor in Cancer Imaging

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-research-doctor-in-cancer-imaging/5b57230f-7a5f-4b80-8404-166eca67760c
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-research-doctor-in-cancer-imaging/5b57230f-7a5f-4b80-8404-166eca67760c.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Radiology
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £67,325 per annum incl. £2,162 London Weighting
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (FTC)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-02T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-15T07:12:58.174Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Sutton/The_Royal_Marsden_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Radiology/Radiology-v8152849
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8152849?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This is a full-time clinical research fellowship within the Department of Radiology at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, supporting the Trust’s cancer imaging research programme and the delivery of high-quality imaging response assessment for clinical trials.

The post is intended for a radiologist who is post-FRCR or equivalent, with full General Medical Council (GMC) registration or is eligible for full GMC registration. The successful candidate will contribute to clinical imaging, support Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)-related imaging research, as well as develop and provide expertise in Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (RECIST) and other response criteria within a specialist oncology centre.

### Main duties of the job

- Receive structured training in the Royal Marsden RECIST/imaging response assessment workflow, including use of local software systems and reporting processes.
- Support the RECIST service.
- Undertake baseline RECIST assessments and contribute to follow-up response assessments.
- Review and advise on complex trial imaging queries, including lesion selection, new lesion assessment, target/non-target lesion interpretation, and response categorisation.
- Participate in relevant clinical trials meetings, including the weekly RECIST meeting and other tumour-specific trial imaging meetings as required.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

## Person Specification

### Status

**Essential**

- Full registration and license to practice with the General Medical Council
- FRCR or equivalent specialist radiology qualification.

**Desirable**

- Post-CCT status
- Higher degree or active interest in pursuing MD, PhD, or publication-based academic development.
- Good Clinical Practice training

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience in diagnostic radiology at senior trainee, or equivalent level.
- Experience in oncological CT and MRI interpretation.

**Desirable**

- Subspecialty experience in cancer imaging, including CT and MRI across multiple tumour types.
- Prior experience of RECIST, iRECIST, Lugano, PCWG, or other structured imaging response criteria.

### Personal Qualities

**Essential**

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to work with radiographers, oncologists, trial teams, and imaging scientists.
- Motivated to ensure the achievement of defined targets
- Approachability
- Enthusiasm
- Commitment to personal and professional development
- Willingness to teach and support radiographers, trainees, and other members of the clinical trials imaging team.

### Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

**Essential**

- Ability and willingness to work within a multi-disciplinary team
- IT skills
- Effective communicator with a wide range of audiences
- Ability to make clinically sound imaging assessments and recognise when consultant input is required.

**Desirable**

- Prior presentations, publications, audit, quality improvement, or grant involvement.
- Experience with quantitative imaging, region-of-interest analysis, image segmentation, radiomics, diffusion-weighted MRI, perfusion imaging, or other imaging biomarker methods.
- Experience of teaching radiographers, radiology trainees, fellows, or multidisciplinary colleagues.

## Documents

- [282-cr1660-med (pdf, 500.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10453524)
- [royal marsden trust values (pdf, 715.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2360)
- [workplace wellbeing and rewards guide (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2580)

## Agent Notes

- This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page.
- Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.
- Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.