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

2 weeks ago

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We are recruiting for an Assistant Physicist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.


This is a great opportunity for a physicist at the start of their career to cover a 12 month secondment leave and join to our radiotherapy physics 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.


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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 physic
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond


The successful applicant will be trained to do a range 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 whether as a clinical scientist or practitioner in radiotherapy physics.


You will be requested:

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 run-up 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.


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

Our ability to be flexible & 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; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.


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

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
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