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Job requirements
Essential
41 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Practical Skills
Team working skills, flexibility, initiative, honesty, integrity, influencing and persuading skills and ability to learn.
- Practical Skills
Works within timeframes and works well under pressure.
- Practical Skills
Patient, diplomatic and able to develop good working relationships with different groups of colleagues.
- Practical Skills
Problem solving and initiative when dealing with issues within own specialist area of competence.
- Practical Skills
Proven ability to prioritise the work of the treatment planning section and own work.
- Practical Skills
Proven ability to influence cross discipline teams working within own specialist area of competence.
- Practical Skills
Interpersonal skills (oral communication), analytical skills (judgement, objective setting), organisational awareness and dynamism (self-confidence & decisiveness).
- Behaviours/Skills
To act at all times in a professional manner, showing courtesy and respect for other staff and patients.
- Behaviours/Skills
Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality.
- Behaviours/Skills
Creative lateral thinker.
- Behaviours/Skills
Proven ability to work flexibly.
- Behaviours/Skills
Proven ability to cope with large and variable workload.
- Behaviours/Skills
Positive attitude to change.
- Behaviours/Skills
Organised, neat, articulate and numerate.
- Behaviours/Skills
Highly developed physical accuracy and hand eye co-ordination to millimetric levels for mark-up and adjustment of Beam immobilisation Devices and patient tattooing as well as Quality Assurance of Radiotherapy equipment.
- Behaviours/Skills
Proven ability to communicate complex information (e.g. justifying planning methods to clinicians).
- Behaviours/Skills
Proven ability to train groups of other professional staff in planning issues (e.g. train Physicists, Doctors and radiographers in the production of treatment plans).
- Behaviours/Skills
Proven ability to communicate diplomatically with patients and relatives.
- Behaviours/Skills
Proven ability to deal with complex and unpredictable situations for example trouble shooting and deciding about an appropriate course of action for a patients treatment whilst under extreme pressure
- Behaviours/Skills
Participation in a MDT environment.
- Behaviours/Skills
Ability to train groups of other professional staff in planning issues (e.g. train Physicists, Doctors and radiographers in the production of treatment plans).
- Other Requirements
Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy.
- Qualifications and Training
Either: Degree in Clinical Technology or related discipline (or equivalent level of knowledge and experience), backed up by specific training in radiotherapy treatment planning (equivalent to a post-graduate diploma in level).
- Qualifications and Training
Or: BSc in Therapy Radiography and specific training in radiotherapy treatment planning post-qualification to the same level as above.
- Qualifications and Training
Either: Registered Clinical Technologist
- Qualifications and Training
Or: Registered Therapy Radiographer
- Qualifications and Training
Or: A clearly defined path to Clinical Technologist registration
- Qualifications and Training
Knowledge in the operation of 3D treatment planning systems.
- Qualifications and Training
Knowledge of CT simulator output and patient set up.
- Qualifications and Training
Understanding of current Mould Room working practices.
- Qualifications and Training
Training and practical experience in quality systems such as ISO/9001:2008.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Post qualification experience in a treatment planning department.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Knowledge of the principles of external beam radiotherapy.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Advanced understanding of physiology and anatomy as applied to treatment planning.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Specialist knowledge of CT and MRI anatomy as applied to treatment planning.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Basic understanding of pathology and mechanisms of disease.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Understanding of the needs of patients and clients and the required standards for appearance and behaviour.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Knowledge in the advanced use of 3D treatment planning systems and Virtual Simulator.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Knowledge of the modern principals of 3D treatment planning.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Specialist working knowledge of relevant legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines, procedures and practices. (e.g., ISO 9001, IRMER, Health and Safety At Work Act, etc.).
- Special Knowledge including experience
Quality assurance and quality management principles during weekly/monthly machine calibrations.
Desirable
10 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications and Training
Additional experience in Mould Room and CT simulator
- Qualifications and Training
Incorporated level membership of the Institute of Medical Physics & Engineering
- Qualifications and Training
The operation of complex radiotherapy technology including linear accelerators, CT simulators.
- Qualifications and Training
Experience of Mould Room output.
- Qualifications and Training
Auditor training.
- Qualifications and Training
Knowledge of design and development of medical devices and the medical
- Special Knowledge including experience
Familiarity with RayStation planning system.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Familiarity with radiotherapy technology including linear accelerators and CT scanners.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Knowledge of Trust aims and objectives and department of Medical Physics aims & objectives.
- Special Knowledge including experience
Knowledge of local procedures, rules and departmental objectives and an understanding of local radiography procedures and work instructions
Job summary
Join Leeds Cancer Centre as a Band 6 Treatment Planning Clinical Technologist and help deliver advanced, high-quality radiotherapy care.
Main duties of the job
Applications are invited for a Band 6 Treatment Planning Clinical Technologist post in Radiotherapy Physics at Leeds Cancer Centre, based at St Jamess University Hospital. We will consider candidates with less experience that can be employed on Annex 21. The post sits within the Treatment Planning and Mould Room service and will contribute to the planning of routine and highly complex radiotherapy treatments, routine dosimetry and quality control, and the wider safe delivery of radiotherapy services. The successful candidate will be an experienced, motivated and clinically focused practitioner able to work as part of a strong multidisciplinary team. The role offers the opportunity to support advanced radiotherapy techniques, clinical trials, service development and innovation within one of the largest radiotherapy centres in the UK
About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.
Details
- Date posted: 01 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 002242
- Job locations: St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
For questions about this job, contact:
John Lilley,
Head of External Beam Radiotherapy Physics
johnlilley@nhs.net
0113 206 7617
Shortlisting Date: 26/10/2026
Interview Date: 11/11/26
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the UK. We are committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our staff helped to define the values and behaviours that we should work to so that we can achieve this vision. This has become known as The Leeds Way, and forms the foundation of our culture, our ethos and how we work every day.
The radiotherapy service in St James’s treats over 7500 new radiotherapy patients per annum. The centre is equipped with the latest technology, including 12 Versa HDs, MRSim, RayStation treatment planning, a Flexitron HDR remote afterloading platform for advanced image guided brachytherapy, I-125 prostate brachytherapy service and Gamma Knife ICON. The managed equipment service was recently renewed, ensuring equipment replacement and comprehensive support for the next 15 years.
What you will bring to the role
You will need a degree in Clinical Technology or related discipline (or equivalent level of knowledge and experience) backed up by specific training in radiotherapy treatment planning (equivalent to a post-graduate diploma in level). BSc Therapy Radiography and specific training in radiotherapy treatment planning post qualification to the same level as above.
Be a registered Clinical Technologist or Registered Therapy Radiographer or a clearly defined path to Clinical Technologist registration.
You will need:
- Knowledge in the operation of 3D treatment planning systems.
- Knowledge of CT simulator output and patient set up.
- Understanding of current Mould Room working practices.
- Training and practical experience in quality systems such as ISO/9001:2008.
- It will be great if you have:
- Experience in the operation of complex radiotherapy technology including linear accelerators.
- Experience of working with CT simulators
- Experience of Mould Room output.
- Auditor training.
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our Trust values
The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.
We are….
Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind
Our Trust priorities
Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time
Our priorities:
People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.
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This advert is for Clinical Technologist/Treatment Planner with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Leeds, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Clinical technologist role. The advertised salary is £39959.00 to £48117.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Oct 2026.
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