Radiotherapy Physicist (North Middlesex Hospital)

Job overview

This post is ideally suited to candidates who have recently completed the STP and achieved HCPC registration, or those nearing completion and looking to develop strong clinical and technical skills within a supportive team.

Our radiotherapy service is equipped with Varian TrueBeam and Halcyon linacs, with Varian Eclipse used for all treatment planning. We have recently commissioned a TrueBeam equipped with HyperSight and AlignRT for SGRT. We also have an XStrahl treatment unit for superficial radiotherapy. The department provides a comprehensive physics service across treatment planning, machine QA, and molecular radiotherapy. You will be able to rotate through each section and contribute to service improvement and innovation alongside routine clinical work. Ongoing developments include knowledge-based planning, QA automation with RadMachine, planning with RapidArcDynamic, and lots more besides.

The team includes 10 clinical scientists (including this post), 6 dosimetrists, and 6 engineering and technical staff, creating a collaborative and well-supported working environment.

Flexible working is supported across the Trust, with a hybrid model combining on-site and remote working.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will participate in the general Radiotherapy Physics service provision to the North Middlesex Hospital site. The post holder may be required to specialise in one or more sections within the Radiotherapy Physics service.

The physicist’s role is to ensure the safe delivery of the Radiotherapy Physics service assisting the Head of the service as well as the designated Medical Physics Experts in their various areas of responsibility.

The post holder will be responsible to the Deputy Head of Radiotherapy Physics and to the Principal Physicists when working in their specific areas.

The post holder will also be expected to work closely with Radiotherapy Radiographers, Clinical Oncologists and Specialist Radiotherapy Registrars.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 1. Clinical Scientific

1.1. Produce routine and complex treatment plans for external beam radiotherapy. Use computerised planning systems to design and customise treatment plans. Take responsibility for the accurate production of individualised treatment plans and associated dosimetry calculations.

1.2. Advise clinical staff on the effects of various treatment plan options on patient dose distributions. Discuss and agree approaches with clinical staff to create optimum treatment plans and advise on aspects of the treatment and patient set-up, as required.

1.3. Check and approve routine and complex treatment plans, dose calculations and templates produced by other members of staff.

• 2. General

2.1. Provide support to Physics computing in Radiotherapy. Write software to the requirements of the department and adapt existing software packages as required. Monitor and resolve problems on computing systems in Radiotherapy and Radiotherapy Physics.

2.2. Participate in acceptance testing and commissioning of new equipment as appropriate.

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.