Job summary
- Main area
- Radiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-8064-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cancer Clinical Trials Centre
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pa/ pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Trials and Research Therapeutic Radiographer
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
The post holder will be a part of a team of experienced research support staff; which includes Research Nurses, Research Radiographers, Clinical Data Managers, Data Assistants and Clinical Trials Assistants (CTA’s) who deliver a range of studies across the oncology portfolio.
The main focus of work is recruiting patients to studies across a range of disease sites and early phased, experimental cancer studies.
So if you are interested in developing your career in clinical research, someone who is ready for a new challenge, is fascinated by how health care changes and improves, and wants to be at the front line of supporting the development of new treatments and care pathways, we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work under the supervision of a Senior Research Radiographer as part of a team managing and co-ordinating and delivering clinical research projects within the speciality of oncology.
As part of the team the Research Radiographer will assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care for patients in line with research protocols across a breadth of oncology indications.
The post holder will work as part of the larger research team to develop and deliver recruitment targets and strategies to meet these targets.
The post holder will ensure that research safeguards are in place to protect the well-being of research subjects and that research is conducted within the Regulatory Framework.
As part of the co-ordination responsibilities the post holder will be expected to represent the Cancer Clinical Trials Centre (CCTC) at national and international meetings.
The post holder will be expected to work flexibly across the Trust’s clinical research landscape in response to the needs of the service.
This is a permanent post.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- DCR(T) or BSc (Hons) Therapeutic Radiographer.
Desirable criteria
- Possess current GCP certificate
- Management qualifications/evidence of M level study.
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Experience with a networked record and verify system. Demonstrate ambition in personal development and in service development. Evidence of operating at an advanced level of practice.
Desirable criteria
- Counselling skills training and Teaching skills training
Education amd Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registered Therapeutic Radiographer.
- Evidence of CPD.
- Demonstrate current knowledge and skills in clinical practice.
- Understands the principles of research and clinical trials.
- Demonstrates an awareness of the needs of the individual with cancer.
- Knowledge of current oncology trials.
- Be willing to undertake further training.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in a senior post or extensive experience in a radiographer post.
- Wide experience with equipment and techniques.
- Able to deal with frequent direct exposure to emotional circumstances in relation to terminal illness. Where patients and relatives may be upset or angry when they are told their diagnosis of cancer or that they have a recurrence or terminal illness.
- Basic IT skills.
- Able to work either alone or in a team to co-ordinate the efficient running of allocated clinical trials and manage own caseload of patients participating in trials in various treatment modalities and tumour types whilst working to specific deadlines.
- Able to work closely with the CCTC Matron, CCTC staff, Superintendent III and Principal Research and Development Therapeutic Radiographer Manager to set up and develop the communication channels and processes required to provide a comprehensive clinical trial service.
- An interest and commitment to advancing patient care through research.
Desirable criteria
- Participation in orientation/training of new staff.
- Experience in auditing.
- Experience in standard setting.
- Experience in clinical trials.
- Undertaken previous research.
- Undertaken ethics/research and development submissions.
- Knowledge of Good Clinical Practice and guidelines.
- Experience of Microsoft Access, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Presentation skills.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate well at an individual, team, departmental and inter-department level
- Ability to think quickly, assess situations and make appropriate decisions.
- Demonstrate the following interpersonal skills - Tolerance, Sensitivity and empathy, Leadership and Compassion
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate initiative and innovation in a professional manner.
- Appreciate the multi-disciplinary nature of the service.
- Flexibility in working hours, given appropriate notice.
- Able to adapt skills to all areas of the department.
- Respected by peers and colleagues.
- A positive caring attitude towards patients and colleagues, a flexible approach, and the ability to perform effectively within a team.
- Reliable
- Appropriate level of fitness.
- Enhanced DBS check.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Geraldine Wilson
- Job title
- CCTC Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2265520
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