Radiotherapy Physics Lead Scientist

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Radiotherapy Physics Lead Scientist  who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Radiotherapy Physics department provides a specialist technical radiotherapy physics service to the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, contributing to safe treatment of patients for radiotherapy.

It is responsible for ensuring the accurate calibration, according to national recommendations, of all radiotherapy treatment machines and providing a routine quality control service for all equipment used in planning, verifying and treating radiotherapy patients.

The aim of this post is to act as a lead physicist within the radiotherapy physics team.  You will be responsible for an area of radiotherapy physics determined both by your own skill set and the current needs of the department.  You will work across multiple areas of the team at various times

This post will involve both development work and  routine work within the department.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

To perform treatment planning and checking within two sections of the department (external beam, brachytherapy, stereotactic).

To manage and coordinate allocated projects in collaboration with the project lead.

To provide appropriate training for physics and radiography staff with respect to treatment planning, machine QA and either brachytherapy or stereotactic and to assist in the assessment of staff competency for physics staff.

To undertake a role as a medical physics expert within the radiotherapy department

To commission equipment

To line manage and supervise staff.  This may include those on training programmes in radiotherapy physics.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We welcome applications from those who would relish the opportunity to be part of new and developing cancer service, building on the excellent reputation, research and patient experience the Cancer Centre already delivers.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.