Clinical Scientist – Radiotherapy

Job overview

The Radiotherapy Physics Group at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) is looking for a Registered Radiotherapy Clinical Scientist to join our team.

NCCC runs services at both the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle and Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle and provides a highly specialised clinical service for the treatment of cancer patients. The successful candidate will be based primarily at the Freeman Hospital but would be required to work occasionally in the Carlisle site.

• Interview Date Tuesday 07 July 2026
• 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

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Main duties of the job

As the successful candidate you will contribute to the whole range of our radiotherapy physics clinical and scientific services, including planning, imaging, radiation dosimetry, quality assurance, radiobiology, radiation protection and teaching, as well as service development and research projects. You will play a significant role in ensuring that patients receive optimised and timely radiotherapy. You will be expected to lead projects and proven experience in taking projects from inception to completion will be an advantage. You will advise, supervise and train a range of other staff groups in areas that you specialise in.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The NCCC is one of the leading radiotherapy centres in the UK. We are the first to use MR-only planning for radiotherapy and are one of the few radiotherapy centres with a dedicated MR scanner. Our range of advanced treatment methods on our state of the art fleet of Varian units includes SRS, SABR, VMAT, IMRT, TBI, TSEI and SGRT. We have recently introduced HyperSight imaging on our newest linacs and are developing our on-line adaptive radiotherapy processes across a range of treatments. We have a strong and developing brachytherapy service and our growing computing group is leading major automation projects.

NCCC is a reference site for advanced SRS practices with Brainlab Elements and we have an excellent culture of clinical trials involvement. We have a strong teaching pedigree linked with Newcastle University, delivering the national STP academic MSc course, oncologist FRCR teaching and local STP and Route-2 physicist training.

• You will contribute to a wide range of radiotherapy physics clinical and scientific services, including planning, imaging, brachytherapy, radiobiology and radiation protection and clinical scientific computing.
• You will have a significant role in ensuring that treatment plans accurately predict the delivered dose and that the delivery equipment operates to the expected standard for clinical needs.
• You will be required to communicate highly complex and sensitive information to a range of people, including to scientific, technical, management and on occasion patients and relatives using language suited to each.
• You will work closely with the team at the Carlisle site and will on occasion spend time at the Carlisle site.
• You will provide scientific and technical leadership in your specific areas of research and development.
• You will maintain and develop high standards of service provision throughout your area of specialty.
• You will contribute to the development and monitoring procedures and practices, to ensure that quality is maintained and information is stored and communicated appropriately.
• You will actively contribute to, and at times take a leading role in, research and development activities for healthcare advancement across a range of specialist areas involving multiple team members from a range of disciplines.
• You will supervise trainee clinical scientists or technologists within the service and contribute to the management, development and training of other staff.
• You will teach on our Clinical Scientist and FRCR academic training courses and train and coach on our STP teaching programme.