Assistant Physicist - Northwood, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
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Northwood, United Kingdom

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A vacancy has arisen within the radiotherapy physics team for a physicist at the start of their career to cover a 3 month secondment leave.

Radiotherapy physics is part of a multi-disciplinary team in a large Cancer Centre.

The Section consists of Clinical Scientists, practitioners in radiotherapy physics, radiographers, linac and computer engineers.

The centre has 7 Varian linear accelerators, a Cyberknife - stereotactic linear accelerator and a brachytherapy suite.

Patient treatments are planned on one of our dedicated wide bore CT scanners with access to, MR and CT-PET imaging within the Paul Strickland Scanner centre.

The department uses both Pinnacle and Eclipse treatment planning systems.


As the post is for 3 months, the successful applicant will be trained to do a limited number of the tasks in the job description in order to support the department, the time spent in a clinical department will give invaluable experience to anyone interested in a future career in radiotherapy physics.


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How do you demonstrate that you work to the Trust Values:
include examples from outside of your work/study experience

  • Please explain why you want to work in radiotherapy physics
  • To assist with patient specific measurements and calculations
  • To assist with quality assurance measurements on linear accelerators.
  • To assist with planning of patient treatments on the computerised treatment planning system
  • To assist in theatre for brachytherapy procedures
  • To perform some data analysis and processing
  • To undertake runup of the cyberknife treatment machine prior to patient use.
  • Personal initiative, a keen sense of responsibility, manual dexterity and a high degree of accuracy are expected in all duties. Although experience of working with radiation is desirable, it is not a requirement and appropriate training will be provided


At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care.

Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.


We run the following hospitals:


  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood


We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.

We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.


ENHT is seeking to maintain and expand the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre staff as we move to an exciting new future.


In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder.

Please see attached - job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Main role requirements are below but for the full details please refer to attached a person specification.

  • Perform verification of patient IMRT plans either using a software package or measurement on a treatment machine
  • Perform complex measurements required on the accelerator under the supervision of a physicist.
  • Assist in data analysis, particularly taking personal responsibility for ensuring that all data collected is accurate
  • Store and retrieve measured data
  • Perform initial analysis and judgement on data to ensure that it follows expected trends. For example this may involve entering data in spreadsheets and plotting graphs and comparing results.
  • Assist with the processing of data from one computer format to another
  • Enter data in a variety of computer systems
  • Perform complex treatment plans for a limited range of anatomical sites. These will be checked by a competent member of staff prior to clinical use
  • Assist physicist performing routine complex QA on the current clinical accelerators. This may involve helping collection, assembly and set up of equipment and performing routine tasks under supervision.
  • Assist in routine care and checks of all equipment in use in the department, including appropriate storage.
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