# Therapeutic Radiographer

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Royal United Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Radiographer
- **Salary:** £32073.00 to £39043.00
- **Contract type:** 9 months (Fixed term maternity leave)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-30T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16T09:39:18.583Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8286498
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8286498?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.ruh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking a motivated and skilled Radiographer to join our radiotherapy team, delivering safe, accurate, and compassionate care to patients throughout their treatment journey.

You will work as part of our friendly, collaborative and forward thinking radiotherapy team delivering high‑quality radiotherapy treatment and associated imaging using highly specialised equipment.

The role involves full accountability for patient care, supporting and supervising junior staff and students, and helping ensure an efficient flow of patients through pre-treatment, treatment areas, and the radiotherapy department as a whole.

You will be based in our state of the art Dyson Cancer Centre which opened in 2024 at the RUH. It was purpose-built to change the way we deliver cancer care. This flagship facility is more than just bricks and mortar - it’s a place of hope, innovation, and healing; creating a beautiful environment to work in.

### Main duties of the job

- Maintain high professional standards
- Assess patients’ status and suitability for procedures.
- Provide information, practical and emotional support to patients and their carers.
- Perform IGRT and data recording.
- Participate in induction, supervision and teaching of staff and students.
- Demonstrate the work of the department to interested parties.
- Assist in clinical audit or research being undertaken.
- Collect accurate departmental statistics.
- Maintain detailed patient records.
- Adhere to Trust policies including health and safety, ionising radiation regulations, local rules and quality assurance policies.
- Collect and input patient data for planning and treatment purposes.
- Accurately interpret treatment plans/ prescriptions and be precise in their practical application.
- Monitor patients during radiotherapy processes.
- Accurately and openly report clinical incidents.
- Observe, report and record machine faults.
- Calibrate, perform and record equipment checks.
- Operate treatment and pre-treatment equipment.
- Use effectively the IT systems.
- Follow an agreed program of continuous professional development.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job description, person specification and main responsibilities documents are available in the documents section.

### 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

### Values

**Essential**

- Awareness and compliance of Trust Values

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Therapeutic Radiography Degree or equivalent
- HCPC registered

**Desirable**

- Evidence of CPD
- Willingness to undertake further study

### Specific Skills

**Essential**

- Communication skills
- Team working/ problem solving
- Ability to interpret and input treatment prescriptions and plans accurately
- Ability to accurately and openly report any clinical incidents
- Ability to self motivate and motivate others
- Adaptable to change
- Ability and flexibility to participate in early morning sessions, late sessions and out of hours as the service requires

**Desirable**

- Evidence of reflective skills
- Insight into departmental management issues
- Demonstrates ambition in personal development

### Knowledge and Experience

**Essential**

- Thorough knowledge and wide experience of techniques and equipment
- Knowledge of ISO 9001 and IRMER
- Knowledge of clinical risk management and clinical governance agenda
- IGRT/IMRT knowledge and experience
- NHS experience

**Desirable**

- Post grad radiotherapy experience
- Evidence of increasing responsibility
- Experience of service development
- Post grad superficial xray experience
- Knowledge of national developments
- Knowledge of current trials
- Knowledge of auditing practice

### Physical skills and Emotional Effort

**Essential**

- Good physical skills
- Works well under pressure
- Deals with conflicting demands on time

## Documents

- [join the ruh (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3030)
- [band 5 job description (pdf, 691.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10603990)
- [band 5 personal specification (pdf, 506.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10603873)

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