Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Radiotherapy Department at BHRUT NHS Trust as a Band 7 Therapeutic Radiographer on a fixed-term maternity leave cover contract.

We are seeking an experienced HCPC-registered Therapeutic Radiographer with a proactive approach and commitment to delivering outstanding patient-centred care. The successful candidate will join our Breast Radiotherapy team, supporting radiographer-led services and enhanced practice across the patient pathway.

As a key member of the Breast MDT, you will assess and manage referrals, obtain informed consent for radiotherapy, contribute to MDT discussions and deliver expert patient care for patients from East London and Essex. This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop enhanced practice within a supportive and innovative department.
Equipment includes: 

•Halcyon with Identify SGRT
•Edge with SRS/SABR Identify SGRT
•Ethos with HyperSight, online adaptive radiotherapy
•Identify SGRT
•Siemens Wide-Bore CT Scanner

ARIA, Eclipse and Ethos systems
Q-Pulse and Varian Noona

Based at Queen's Hospital, Romford, with excellent transport links to London and surrounding areas.

Although this position is a 12 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 12 months.

Main duties of the job

•    Accountable for own professional actions 
•    Be recognised and accessible as an expert and team leader in their specific field: promoting best practice, giving expert advice, delegating and disseminating knowledge to the profession and to the wider health care arena. 
•    Plan and deliver complex radiotherapy procedures to a wide range of benign and malignant conditions to a high level of accuracy. Use individual judgement on a daily basis to verify and maintain reproducible and precise treatment. 
•    Work within departmental protocols, deviating where necessary to reach sound conclusions and provide optimum care. 
•    Work autonomously within the legal, ethical and professional framework provided by the professional body. 
•    Generate new solutions to identify and best meet the needs of the patient. 

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. 

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.