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The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) has a vacancy for an Advanced Practice Specialist Dosimetrist based at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.  We are looking to appoint a well-motivated and highly experienced dosimetrist who will be responsible for developing the technical and practical aspects of implementing adaptive radiotherapy within the department.

This post holder will provide professional technical leadership in the above area of expertise within NCCC, advancing and introducing best practice into the clinical workflow.  As well as developing their own skills to further advance adaptive radiotherapy, they will be expected to provide specialist training to Radiographers, Clinical Technologists, Specialty registrars and other healthcare professionals and also assess staff competencies in this and other areas.

The candidate must have appropriate professional registration (e.g. on the Voluntary Register as a Clinical Technologist or registered with the Health and Care Professions Council if a radiographer).

• Interview date: Week beginning 16^th August 2024
• 37 hours 30 minutes /week
• 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

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The radiotherapy department benefits from state of the art equipment which includes dedicated planning MRI scanner facilities, 3 Siemens CT scanners with 4D capability, access to a PET/CT facility, 2 Tomotherapy treatment units, 2 Varian TrueBeam STx linacs with stereotactic capability, 7 Varian TrueBeam linacs, a high doserate Flexitron afterloader and SXT.  Since the introduction of Raystation treatment planning system into clinical use the section is responsible for VMAT planning for the majority of disease sites.  The Centre is committed to delivering a high quality service, maintaining the highest specification equipment and contributing to radiotherapy research and development.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.