Senior Dosimetrist

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen within The Northern Centre for Cancer Care for an experienced Clinical Technologist, Dosimetrist or Therapeutic Radiographer to act as a Senior Dosimetrist in the Radiotherapy Centre.

The post is based at either the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne or Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle. There will be the opportunity to participate in developments and may be required to provide supervision and training for junior staff.  Current experience of radiotherapy treatment planning is essential, and the post holder will be supported through a comprehensive in-house competency-based training programme in treatment planning for a wide range of treatment sites.

Radiotherapy treatment planning is undertaken on Raystation. The Dosimetry teams work as a large, combined service between both sites of NCCC in Newcastle and Carlisle allowing ample opportunity for the post holder to deepen their experience of complex treatment planning techniques.

• Interview Date: 18 June 2026
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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Main duties of the job

• Managing the daily organisation of own workload to ensure the delivery of the highly specialist external beam radiotherapy dose planning service to the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC).
• For individual patients, designing the radiotherapy plan and determining the treatment parameters on a treatment planning system.
• For individual patients, validating treatment data generated to ensure its integrity and appropriateness for clinical use and exporting it for treatment.
• Responsible, with the clinician, for designing highly complex plans for individual patients with dosimetric problems and where appropriate communicating the complex information of the plan to other staff groups.
• Participating in research development projects from inception to completion.
• Contribute to the delivery of training and education of all staff groups and visitors to the section.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Providing the technical aspects of the radiotherapy dose planning service at Freeman Hospital site
• Performs a range of specialist healthcare science activities
• Involvement in research and development projects