# Senior Dosimetrist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Freeman Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Dosimetrist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19T12:15:43.767Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Cumberland_Infirmary/The_Newcastle_upon_Tyne_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Radiotherapy_Dose_Planning/Radiotherapy_Dose_Planning-v8377139
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8377139?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

- As a registered Dosimetrist, Clinical Technologist or Therapeutic Radiographer you will be responsible for supporting the Dose Planning section and wider Radiotherapy Department ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care.
- The Dosimetry Team is split across two sites one at Newcastle and one in Carlisle.
- This post is for a position based at the Cumberland Infirmary Site in (Carlisle)
- The post holder is responsible for providing technical aspects of the radiotherapy dose planning service at Cumberland Infirmary site or Freeman Hospital for patients having their treatment delivered at North Cumbria Integrated Care and The Northern Centre for Cancer Care.
- The post holder is responsible for ensuring effective communications within their service and across professional boundaries, overcoming barriers to understanding.
- The post holder works independently, within occupational guidelines, and is responsible for management of their own workload.
- The post holder is expected to be involved in research and development projects as required.
- The post holder will be supported through a comprehensive in-house competency-based training programme.
- Involvement in research and development projects.

Please be advised we can only support face to face interviews at this time.

- Interview Date Monday 16 November 2026
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week

### 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 North Cumbria Integrated Care (NCIC) and 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/Cumberland Infirmary sites
- Performs a range of specialist healthcare science activities
- Involvement in research and development projects

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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### 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.

## Person Specification

### SKILLS

**Essential**

- - Ability to work independently and as a team member
- - Ability to work accurately in all areas of work
- - Good communication skills
- - Efficient time management and organizational skills
- - Evidence of numerical skills and 3D spatial awareness

**Desirable**

- - Evidence of competence in report writing and information presentation
- - Good data collection and analysis skills

### KNOWLEDGE

**Essential**

- - Up to date knowledge of relevant areas of medical physics applied to treatment planning, radiotherapy physics, imaging and treatment
- - Good understanding of 3D anatomy and physiology

**Desirable**

- - Evidence of knowledge of clinical oncology
- - Evidence of knowledge of current scientific and technological developments in radiotherapy treatment including imaging modalities

### EXPERIENCE

**Essential**

- - Experience of Radiotherapy Treatment, Imaging, Dose Planning or Medical Physics in previous employment

**Desirable**

- - Experience of radiotherapy treatment planning
- - Evidence of completed research and development projects

### QUALIFICATIONS

**Essential**

- - Honours degree in a related subject such as radiotherapy oncology or an equivalent qualification
- - Registration with the HCPC or RCT

**Desirable**

- - Post qualification study

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