Radiotherapy Practitioner - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

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Manchester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Applications are invited for a practitioner (therapy radiographer, clinical technologist or medical physicist) to join the proton therapy physics team at The Christie.

The applicant should have HCPC registration as a clinical scientist/radiographer or be on the register of clinical technologists. Applicants without registration will be considered for the post and supported through their training programme.

The successful applicant will join a team of practitioners and scientists involved with the delivery of the national proton beam therapy service which has been treating patients at The Christie since December 2018.

The proton therapy service is still expanding meaning that the team is required to support the development of new treatment sites, including clinical trials, whilst maintaining a treatment planning and dosimetry service for increasing patient numbers.

All members of the team are encouraged to present new ideas to improve the service and will be supported to develop them by the whole team.

Though previous proton experience is more than welcome we appreciate that as a new service in the UK, applicants may not have much experience in this area.

Training and development will be provided for those looking for a new challenge and to build on existing radiotherapy experience.

Practitioners in the proton therapy physics team are involved with all aspects of the service including treatment planning, machine QC and patient-specific verification.

Practitioners also play a key role in the peer review process for every patient by presenting cases at multi-disciplinary meetings to ensure that all treatment plans are completed to the highest standard.

Treatment planning is performed for both proton and photon treatments to be used in contingency scenarios.

Everyone in the team is encouraged to undertake further development and education and time will be protected within the work schedule to enable this.

Advanced practitioners take a lead role in the training and supervision of new staff members and are involved in the development of training packages for new techniques.

The proton therapy physics team includes physicists, radiographers and technologists who all play an active role in supporting and developing the proton service.

We work very closely with other clinical teams such as treatment and pre-treatment radiographers and clinical oncologists to deliver the routine service and to collaborate on project work leading to presentation and publication.

The team's duties include early and late working but flexible working and homeworking arrangements are supported to promote a healthy work-life balance for all team members.

The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year.

We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services.

We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year.

Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

The post holder carries out a Practitioner role in Radiotherapy Physics with the production of highly complex treatment plans, patient specific quality assurance and treatment machine QC.

The post holder performs a range of radiotherapy physics duties in compliance with the radiotherapy Quality System in the radiotherapy physics group, in both photons and protons.

The post holder will be expected to participate in research and development activity in line with the Radiotherapy Physics group's priorities.

The post holder will be responsible for the mentoring and training of radiotherapy physics staff as well as radiotherapy students whilst within the department.

Identify and report problems with clinical treatment planning systems
Use professional judgement to refer appropriate treatment planning problems to others.
Advise radiographers in the proton therapy department on issues relating to the implementation of treatment plans.
Handle internal and external enquiries from other professional groups and patients.
Participate in the implementation of new processes and techniques including the generation of work instructions for inclusion in the quality system.
Work closely with planning, dosimetry and radiotherapy to schedule patient specific verification measurements to avoid treatment delays in complex treatments
Use a variety of methods to perform verification measurements for patient specific treatment plan