Radiotherapy Clinical Educator - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, experienced, and enthusiastic Radiographer to become part of the Radiotherapy Education Team at The Christie.


Ideally having previous experience of providing education to staff and/or students, your main role will be to support the Apprentice Therapeutic Radiographers we have starting with us in March 2024, however cross-cover to support the wider function of the Radiotherapy Education Team will also be required.

A robust training package will be provided to allow the post holder to obtain the necessary clinical competencies however previous clinical experience working as a Therapeutic Radiographer is essential.

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is a highly specialised oncology treatment hospital.

We deliver both radical and palliative radiotherapy to patients from across Greater Manchester and further afield including IGRT, SGRT, SABR, SRS, Proton Beam Therapy and paediatric treatments.

We have 4 Radiotherapy Departments located across Greater Manchester (Withington, Salford, Oldham and Macclesfield) and a national Proton Beam Therapy Centre also located at Withington.

The ability to travel to each of these sites will be a requirement of this role in order to support the Apprentice Therapeutic Radiographers that will be rotating across all of the sites as part of their learning journey.


The post holder will work within the Radiotherapy Education Team, taking direction from the Principal Education Radiographers participating in all aspects of radiotherapy clinical education across the Radiotherapy and Proton Beam Therapy Services.

The remit of this role primarily includes the support and competency assessment of Therapeutic Radiographer apprentices across The Christie Radiotherapy and Proton Beam Therapy services however, cross-cover to support pre-registration students (undergraduate and post-graduate), new staff inductions and competencies, mandatory training performance monitoring, compliance with and improvement of the radiotherapy quality system, educational audit participation, teaching of multi-professional groups and participation in competency assessment for students and staff members will also be required.


Working under the direction of the Principal Education Radiographer and the Radiotherapy and Proton Beam Therapy Senior Management Team and in partnership with The Christie School of Oncology and Academic/Practice Partners, the post holder will be required to facilitate and support the development of a robust professional development structure and promote, develop and embed a learning culture.

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.

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Responsibilities:

Communication & Relationship Skills

The post holder must possess expert communication skills to allow them to provide and receive highly complex information. This may be sensitive in nature and may be contentious. This may be individual students, apprentices, colleagues, senior managers or patients or it may involve communication with groups.

Communication may be within the Trust, with partner-universities or with NHS England, The Department of Health or Health Education England personnel or committees.

Knowledge, Training & Experience


The post holder will display a highly specialist level of knowledge in the areas of both education theory and practice and modern radiotherapy and oncology theory, technical and clinical practice.

They will have professional clinical knowledge acquired through a BSc (Hons) in Radiotherapy and appropriate Oncology, Radiotherapy or Educational qualification at Masters level (e.g.

MA, MSc or MEd). They will have experience in supervision and managing learners and personal experience of preparing and/or delivering modern advanced radiotherapy

Analytical & Judgemental Skills


As a member of the education team in the radiotherapy service, the post holder will be expected to advise the Principal Education Radiographer and the Radiotherapy and Proton Beam Therapy Senior Management Team about the education and training functions in the service.

They will advise senior colleagues on the management of clinical education prov
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