Job summary
- Main area
- Radiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Working hours - a shift within the hours of 8am-8pm to meet service needs. Participate in weekend On -Call. Work occasional Saturdays and Bank holidays. To work across site when required
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working hours - a shift within the hours of 8am-8pm to meet service needs. Participate in weekend On -Call. Work occasional Saturdays and Bank holidays. To work across site when required)
- Job ref
- 359-6878176-T1
- Employer
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maidstone Hospital
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Therapeutic Radiographer
Band 6
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic and highly motivated Therapeutic Radiographers looking to advance your career in a dynamic and supportive environment? Then join us at the busy Kent Oncology Centre where we operate as one team across our two sites at Maidstone and Canterbury.
We are equipped with nine linacs including four Truebeams and two Halcyons. HDR is delivered at Maidstone with treatment radiographers rotating through the service. Consultant Palliative Radiographers and MacMillan specialists support the teams on both sites.
As a Senior Treatment Radiographer, you will have a pivotal role in delivering a range of techniques including SABR, DIBH, VMAT and IGRT.
You will possess a level of expertise in advanced radiotherapy and have experience in training and mentoring others.
Our Practice Educators are here to support your development. Staff are encouraged to get involved in audit, teaching, research and development for which CPD funding is available.
You will be based at our purpose-built centre at Maidstone.
Main duties of the job
- To plan and organise daily workload and some complex activities or programmes for an area of practice, some of which may be ongoing.
- Responsible for own and other members of staff ,time management in the defined area.
- Able to provide treatment within a timely manner as scheduled.
- Undertake image evaluation and approval
- Adapt practice according to planning and organisational management for better service delivery.
- Ensure policy implementation within the geographical and professional workplace.
- To facilitate attendance at the Disease orientated group meetings
- To inform the Clinical specialist or Services manager of any problems that may affect the smooth running of the Department. To be aware and report any variances in the performance of equipment by the normal reporting system and to organise regular equipment servicing.
- Ensure working practices facilitate an efficient safe working environment
- Able to work all day treating cancer patients
Please note that this role may often attract a high level of applications. Please note this role may close earlier than the original closing date so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible.
Working for our organisation
MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children)
At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.
We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace. Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Interview Date: To be confirmed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Radiotherapy or equivalent
- Registerable with HCPC
- Operator under IRMER
Desirable criteria
- Undertaken accredited academic development
Experience
Essential criteria
- To have worked in a clinical enviroment
- Experience as a clinical Radiotherapist
- Worked within a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to treat patients within a timely manner as scheduled
- Undertake imaging evaluation and approval
- Experience on associated treatment equipment
Desirable criteria
- Ability to lead a clinical team
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills, verbal and written
- Analytical and decision -making skills
- Organisational skills
- Time Management of themselves and others
- Able to train and teach
- Knowledge of the pre-treatment process
- Time manage themselves
Desirable criteria
- Able to lead service development
- Able to operate as an autonomous practitioner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amanda Williams
- Job title
- Head of Radiotherapy Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01622 225013
- Additional information
Bronwyn Van Blerk, Deputy of Radiotherapy Services:01622 226166, [email protected]
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