Job summary
- Main area
- Radiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (End Date 6th November 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-AGB-EMF17242
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £55,877 - £62,626 Pro Rata Per Annum inc. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Radiotherapy Operational Manager with a specialism in Development
Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Operational Manager to join our team. The Trust is delighted to invite applications from enthusiastic, forward-thinking radiographers with a keen interest in delivering radiotherapy services and a passion for team working and service development. We have a fantastic team approach, and love to develop all of our staff and want you to achieve and grow your potential.
As a MacMillan adopted department, you will have access to a wide range of support for both patients and opportunities for your own continuous professional development.
We have on-going departmental, NCRN and commercial clinical trial activity with many trials currently open to recruitment and further ones in development.
Some routine working at our satellite site at East Surrey Hospital will be required to cover the general operational management rota.
We look forward to meeting with should you feel that you would like to become part of our Royal Surrey Cancer Centre team.
Main duties of the job
This post will provide managerial leadership for the radiography teams. You will be responsible for the operational processes of the radiotherapy service within the defined resources and establish key working relationships will be established with the other Managing Radiographers and the Lead Clinician for Radiotherapy, Consultant Clinical Oncologists, Radiotherapy Physics Staff and Technical Staff as well as the key members of the wider cancer centre.
The post holder will maintain the highest professional and technical standards of radiotherapy and maintain their clinical expertise by working clinically within the stereotactic field. The post holder will provide expertise in the stereotactic and adaptive fields, to ensure a robust and high quality patient pathway is provided from referral to discharge. A key role will be to develop, introduce and facilitate new techniques, ensuring teaching and training programmes are implemented within defined timescales.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role serves to work within the existing operational radiotherapy management team, leading the operational management of the radiotherapy department with a particular responsibility of overseeing development and management of new services and developments (including stereotactic and adaptive) within the radiotherapy
department.
This is a key post within the department, having responsibility for the effective management of the operational service. The post holder is responsible for managing efficient and timely patient pathways within the Royal Surrey Cancer Centre. A key function of this role will be supporting the development of the stereotactic and adaptive radiotherapy services, integrating them with the wider cancer centre on all geographical sites. The post holder will work closely with the clinicians and supportive
staff to ensure patients receive high quality care. They will ensure that the specialist commissioned service is maintained, following the national guidelines of preparation, delivery and data collection.
The Royal Surrey Cancer Centre is focused on providing excellent patient pathways and patient-centred care. We strive to continuously evolve to reflect the technical advances within Radiotherapy. To that end, we have recently completed the replacement of two of our Varian TrueBeams with a Varian ETHOS and a Varian Halcyon at our satellite centre. These units are the first in the NHS for in-bore SGRT and we are scheduled to be the first Centre to implement Hypersight later this year. Surface guided radiotherapy system installation will further improve the accuracy of treatment and present the opportunity for tattoo-less radiotherapy. Our patients benefit from access to two ETHOS units, one Halcyon and four TrueBeams across our two radiotherapy centres.
We have three planning CT scanners, an exceptional Brachytherapy service which provides HDR, LDR and Papillon kV contact treatment; as well as an Xstrahl superficial machine.
Key to this role will be supporting the development of the stereotactic and adaptive radiotherapy services, integrating them with the wider cancer centre on all geographical sites. Expert leadership and professionalism will be required to drive and support these radiotherapy services. You will work closely with the Lead Radiographers, clinicians and support staff to ensure that patients received high quality care. You will ensure that the specialist commissioned service is maintained, following the national guidelines of preparation, delivery and data collection.
Our main site is based at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford and our satellite centre at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill. Guildford gives easy access to the beautiful North & South Downs, is an hour from the coast and has great transport links to the surrounding counties of Berkshire, Hampshire and Sussex. The city offers cultural diversity, is home to the University of Surrey and it is great place to reside and explore.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registration
- BSc Radiotherapy or DCR (T)
- Evidence of relevant post qualification training and education
- Evidence of continuous personal, professional and academic development
Desirable criteria
- SoR Advanced Practitioner Registration
- MSc in relevant subject or evidence of working towards
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant demonstrable post qualification experience in therapeutic radiography
- Advanced all round knowledge of radiotherapy techniques
- Advanced use of computerised department record and verify systems
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering service improvements or other major projects
- Experience in managing people
- Experience in managing projects
- Experience of collaborating with other staff-groups outside of Radiotherapy
- Experience in managing budgets
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Turner
- Job title
- Professional Head of Radiotherapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
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