Radiotherapy Physicist

Job overview

We seek a motivated and dynamic radiotherapy physicist to support all areas of the service including SRS, SABR, SGRT, brachytherapy, our radioiodine service and to participate in the roll out of projects, including the commissioning of two new Radixact inacs.

You will join a team of 35+ scientists, dosimetrists, engineers & technicians providing a full range of complex radiotherapy services at both, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals.

The service has 4 Varian TrueBeam linacs, 2 Radixact linacs, a CT scanner, an Xstrahl superficial unit and an Elekta Flexitron unit. By 2027 SGRT will be installed on all clinical linacs . The department delivers stereotactic cranial radiotherapy (SRS), on the TrueBeam STx and SABR for a range of sites. Planning is carried out on Raystation, Eclipse, Elements (SRS) and Oncentra Brachy. The department has excellent experience in delivering education and training in medical physics at all levels; STP and HSST, and hosts the London North Medical Physics Training Consortium and has close links with Imperial College.

The department is active with research with direct staff involvement with on-going clinical trials and has a positive attitude towards CPD funding training and educational opportunities including leadership courses.

You should have or are about to achieve HCPC registration as a Clinical Scientist in radiotherapy physics.

Main duties of the job

• Provide extensive and highly complex scientific expertise to the Trust radiotherapy department at the Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospital sites.
• Provide scientific support to all aspects of the work of the Radiotherapy Physics Group.
• Perform measurement of radiation output from treatment machines such as high-energy linear accelerators and high-activity radioactive sources used to produce therapeutic radiation beams.
• Perform quality assurance of treatment machines.
• Perform computerised treatment planning, and perform second checks on treatment plans, for patients undergoing radiation therapy for cancer.
• Perform radiation dose measurements on patients, ensuring safety of patients and staff in a hazardous radiation environment, ensuring equipment is operating safely.
• Investigate complex problems and provide advice on the physics aspects of radiotherapy treatments to other clinical staff.
• Undertake the evaluation, selection, procurement and acceptance testing of expensive and sophisticated equipment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.