Practice Educator Radiotherapy

Job overview

Would you like the opportunity to work in one of the largest cancer centres in Europe with an international reputation for high quality patient care, research, and education?

We are looking for a new education team member to primarily support our large number of pre-registration students across both our hospital sites. You will be an enthusiastic therapeutic radiographer who is a forward thinking, creative individual and keen to be instrumental in continuing to develop and support innovative radiotherapy education at the Trust.  You will be working with education providers, students, friendly teams of radiographers, clinicians and physicists all dedicated to improving radiotherapy planning and treatment techniques.  There is the additional opportunity to participate in the delivery of formal teaching for our education providers.

This role will give you the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of radiotherapy development in a forward thinking, research driven, and technically challenging department with the patient at the centre of everything we do. We look forward to welcoming candidates who are dynamic and motivated, whilst empathetic and compassionate in their interactions with all.

If you require further information, please contact via email: Sarah Armstrong- Professional Development Lead for Radiotherapy- [email protected]

Main duties of the job

You will be supporting the lecturer practitioners in providing tutorial support, schedule planning, placement development, administration, assessor support, and the pastoral care of students within the departments.  In addition, you will maintain your practice as a radiographer working with highly sophisticated image guided and patient centred radiotherapy techniques at one of Europe’s leading cancer centres.

1.1.    The post-holder will be responsible for carrying out radiotherapy processes as prescribed, carefully and accurately and assisting in the operational management of a specialist highly complex radiotherapy work base, which may be a treatment unit, a brachytherapy unit, a CT scanner, VS area or a treatment preparation area, and supervising the immediate radiographic team in the absence of a team leader. 1.2.    The post-holder will liaise with medical, physics, nursing, clerical and support staff within the department and throughout the institution. The key working relationships will be with the Senior I radiographers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

• Clinical Responsibility – Patient Care 2.1    Responsible for the accurate preparation, planning and delivery of treatment by self and by members of the immediate team in the absence of the Senior I radiographer. 2.2    Maintain and develop own personal standards of care and technical ability. 2.3    Set high standards of technical expertise, acting as role model to junior staff members. 2.4    Assist in the training of team members in the operation of all equipment safely and efficiently as per manufacturers’ instructions, including local guidelines, under the guidance of the work base leader. 2.5    Meet the regulatory responsibilities defined for an operator as delegated by the Trust under the IR(ME)R regulations. With appropriate experience may be defined also as a practitioner for concomitant exposures as before. 2.6    Make evidence based decisions within the prescribed scope of practice.  Analysis and approval of planning and treatment verification images, following designated training and adhering to work instructions and protocols. 2.7    Be responsible for accurate record keeping and that information required for statistics are provided as required by self and team members in the absence of the work base leader. 2.8    Participate in day to day and weekly quality assurance of equipment at the work base in accordance with ISO 9001 documentation, including fault reporting Promote multi-disciplinary awareness and compliance with current Radiotherapy protocols, and to attend gynae MDT. 2.9    Participate in the ongoing audit and development of the department ISO 9001 quality assurance programme.