# Radiographer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/radiographer/acb14ab8-204a-46ec-ae03-5869d68f2ffc - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/radiographer/acb14ab8-204a-46ec-ae03-5869d68f2ffc.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Radiographer - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-27T09:31:16.353Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Chelsea/The_Royal_Marsden_NHS_Foundation_Trust/PreTreatment_Therapy/PreTreatment_Therapy-v8023330 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8023330?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has an international reputation for high quality patient care, education and research and its partnership with the Institute of Cancer Research has created the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe.  The Chelsea Radiotherapy department has 4 Varian linear accelerators, a Cyberknife and a Brachytherapy Suite. Our Pre-treatment clinical environment includes a Mould room, Siemens Confidence CT scanner and Virtual Simulation using Eclipse, much of which is led by the advanced pre-treatment radiographers, current developments include the use of AI in Breast localisation. The department is fully digital utilising EPIC and Aria to manage patient pathways. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, caring and highly motivated therapy radiographer to work as a Band 7 team leader within the Pre-Treatment team. We are looking for a practitioner with an excellent technical background and pre-treatment experience at senior level. This role requires someone confident and experienced in advanced pre-treatment imaging and virtual simulation techniques including 4DCT, RGSC guided breath-hold techniques, SABR, SRS/T and VMAT. Knowledge and experience of cannulation and contrast administration is desirable. The successful candidate will be expected to achieve competency in all pre-treatment skills to ensure an efficient, high-quality service is provided to all patients throughout their pathway. ### Main duties of the job The ideal candidate will enjoy working as part of a team and will have exemplary communication and patient care skills. A key quality will be the ability to manage a complex workload, whilst providing strong leadership to a team of staff. A large focus of the pre-treatment team moving forwards will be the use of multi-modality pre-treatment imaging, a key part of this role will be to work collaboratively with Radiology to develop skills in MRI, to provide cutting edge imaging techniques for radiotherapy planning. If you are motivated, ready for a change and looking for an exciting opportunity to work in pre-treatment as a Band 7 Radiographer then we want you to apply. If you would like further information, please contact: Clare Ockwell, Pre-treatment Operational Lead Superintendent Direct line: 0208 915 6055 or email \[email protected\] 1.1.    When they are working as a Senior I clinical practitioner they will be responsible for the radiotherapy processes at and the operational management of a specialist highly complex radiotherapy work base, which may be a treatment unit, a CT scanner, a treatment preparation area or a project team such as for the digital transformation implementation. 1.2.    They will supervise their immediate radiographic team to also include students, aides, and visitors on a rotational basis, ensuring that the practise of all results in the output and the radiotherapy processes at their work base being performed accurately and effectively. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification. - As clinical lead at the work base to be responsible for evidence based decision making within prescribed limits. Be competent to analyse and approve images following designated training and adhering to protocols. 2.2    Responsible for the accurate preparation, planning and delivery of treatment by self and by all members of the immediate team. 2.3    Set high standards of technical expertise, acting as role model to junior staff members. To be responsible for maintaining professional standards of self and other team members. 2.4    Responsible for 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 superintendent radiographers. 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 also be defined as a practitioner for concomitant exposures. ## Job Details The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has an international reputation for high quality patient care, education and research and its partnership with the Institute of Cancer Research has created the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe. The Chelsea Radiotherapy department has 4 Varian linear accelerators, a Cyberknife and a Brachytherapy Suite. Our Pre-treatment clinical environment includes a Mould room, Siemens Confidence CT scanner and Virtual Simulation using Eclipse, much of which is led by the advanced pre-treatment radiographers, current developments include the use of AI in Breast localisation. The department is fully digital utilising EPIC and Aria to manage patient pathways. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, caring and highly motivated therapy radiographer to work as a Band 7 team leader within the Pre-Treatment team. We are looking for a practitioner with an excellent technical background and pre-treatment experience at senior level. This role requires someone confident and experienced in advanced pre-treatment imaging and virtual simulation techniques including 4DCT, RGSC guided breath-hold techniques, SABR, SRS/T and VMAT. Knowledge and experience of cannulation and contrast administration is desirable. The successful candidate will be expected to achieve competency in all pre-treatment skills to ensure an efficient, high-quality service is provided to all patients throughout their pathway. ## Job Description The ideal candidate will enjoy working as part of a team and will have exemplary communication and patient care skills. A key quality will be the ability to manage a complex workload, whilst providing strong leadership to a team of staff. A large focus of the pre-treatment team moving forwards will be the use of multi-modality pre-treatment imaging, a key part of this role will be to work collaboratively with Radiology to develop skills in MRI, to provide cutting edge imaging techniques for radiotherapy planning. If you are motivated, ready for a change and looking for an exciting opportunity to work in pre-treatment as a Band 7 Radiographer then we want you to apply. If you would like further information, please contact: Clare Ockwell, Pre-treatment Operational Lead Superintendent Direct line: 0208 915 6055 or email \[email protected\] 1.1. When they are working as a Senior I clinical practitioner they will be responsible for the radiotherapy processes at and the operational management of a specialist highly complex radiotherapy work base, which may be a treatment unit, a CT scanner, a treatment preparation area or a project team such as for the digital transformation implementation. 1.2. They will supervise their immediate radiographic team to also include students, aides, and visitors on a rotational basis, ensuring that the practise of all results in the output and the radiotherapy processes at their work base being performed accurately and effectively. ## Responsibilities For further information please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification. As clinical lead at the work base to be responsible for evidence based decision making within prescribed limits. Be competent to analyse and approve images following designated training and adhering to protocols. 2.2 Responsible for the accurate preparation, planning and delivery of treatment by self and by all members of the immediate team. 2.3 Set high standards of technical expertise, acting as role model to junior staff members. To be responsible for maintaining professional standards of self and other team members. 2.4 Responsible for 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 superintendent radiographers. 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 also be defined as a practitioner for concomitant exposures. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience of sophisticated RT environment as a Senior II treating advanced techniques, particularly IGRT - Participated in a quality management programme - Previous experience of participating in clinical education of pre-registration students **Desirable** - Have participated in research/audit/service evaluation. - Have experience in paper light/paper free radiotherapy processes - Have experience of using Aria/Mosaiq ### Circumstances **Essential** - Able to work non-standard hours between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00 to meet the exigencies of the service and will be expected to participate in the non-residential radiotherapy weekend on call service and the weekend day or bank holiday service that runs up to 8 times a year to cover gaps in treatment. - Able to work on both sites and to be flexible to meet the needs of the role ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - HCPC registration as a therapeutic radiographer (requires BSc (Hons) in Radiotherapy or equivalent accredited programme) **Desirable** - Postgraduate attainment in therapeutic radiography related subject/leadership/management - Postgraduate qualification/training in assessing/supervising/teaching ### Skills/Ability/Knowledge **Essential** - Demonstrate understanding of the advanced principles for sophisticated radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery. - Computer literate with associated keyboard skills - Have demonstrable problem solving and decision-making ability - Display strong organisational and time management skills, and ability to prioritise tasks - Be able to act effectively as lead radiographer at a clinical work base with ability to motivate team members to achieve their full potential in a challenging environment. Be a credible practitioner so as to be able to perform as lead in a given area/situation. - Have assured demeanour with appropriate confidence in own abilities, be able to seek managerial support as necessary - Commitment to own personal and professional development, as well as to the training and development of others. ## Documents - [282-sb1515-jf (pdf, 144.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10309957) - [282-sb1515-jd&ps (pdf, 328.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10309955) - [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.