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Job summary

Main area
Oncology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term Contract - 12 months)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
196-LIS9645
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Guy's Cancer Centre
Town
London
Salary
£61,927 - £68,676 per annum inc. H.C.A.
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/07/2025 23:59
Interview date
13/07/2025

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SENIOR CLINICAL SCIENTIST AI FELLOWSHIP IN HEAD AND NECK RADIOTHERAPY

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

Please see attached document for full JD/PS.

Guy’s Head and Neck Cancer Centre has established a number of innovative projects focused 
on transforming care for patients with head and neck cancer, to deliver the right care, at the 
right time, taking into account individual patient needs.
This post is a one-year fixed term post focused on Radiotherapy real world imaging data and 
AI applications in Head and Neck Oncology. The post-holder will work as an independent 
scientist within our established research team and take responsibility for the implementation 
and extension of existing and planned R&D work in the area of Head and Neck Cancer AI 
applications in Radiotherapy. The post-holder will maintain and expand Radiotherapy and 
Imaging real world databases of head and neck cancer patients and contribute to the 
development of AI tools in HN Radiotherapy, from data curation to clinical deployment, and 
including development. The post would suit a clinical scientist/radiotherapy physicist with 
relevant clinical experience in HN Radiotherapy at band 8A or equivalent seeking exposure 
to imaging (diagnostic/RT) and clinical data analytics and development and applications of AI 
in Radiotherapy. The post-holder will also assist other members of the research team with 
recruitment of patients, project work and analysis as required and will contribute to the 
integration of radiotherapy, imaging and clinical data with the tissue bank.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached document for full JD/PS.

• To lead in the development and implementation of Radiotherapy AI tools within the 
Head and Neck Oncology unit. 
• To lead the development of new procedures and policies in areas of clinical 
deployment of AI tools and work closely with clinical colleagues, those in Radiotherapy 
physics and the Clinical Scientific Computing group to ensure patient safety and 
pathway efficiency.
• To ensure regular quality control measurements are carried out on AI tools prior to
deployment as well as setting policies for continued monitoring and subsequent 
retraining/improvement, thereby closing the AI loop.
• To contribute to the maintenance of clinical radiotherapy, diagnostic imaging and 
clinical data for the Radiotherapy HN database.
• To work with clinicians towards the curation of datasets for ML model development, 
evaluation of AI tools and clinical deployment.
• To participate in ongoing Head and Neck research and development.
• To review and analyse radiotherapy data of HNC patients.
• To work with colleagues from the HN Tissue Bank to ensure data collection 
harmonisation and aid monitoring of patient recruitment.

Working for our organisation

Please see attached document for full JD/PS.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation 
trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south 
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London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, 
orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre 
opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also 
opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. 
St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest 
emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist 
services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We 
lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally 
where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community 
services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with longterm conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we 
serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary 
sector organisations. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached document for full JD/PS.                                                              

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Good (1st or 2nd class) Honours degree in a relevant subject. Relevant MSc or higher degree.
Desirable criteria
  • Qualified to act as a Medical Physics Expert (MPE) under IRMER in the field of radiotherapy.

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Registered Clinical Scientist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in Head and Neck Radiotherapy. Full member of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (or Equivalent).

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Coding experience (e.g. Python, or Eclipse API), software development skills, knowledge of DICOM-RT
  • In depth knowledge of relevant legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines in relevant areas of patient safety
  • Able to perform complex scientific analysis of data and write computer code.
Desirable criteria
  • Specialist training on and practical experience with a range of radiotherapy clinical applications, such as treatment planning, imaging and computing.
  • Advanced experience postregistration working in radiotherapy physics

Research

Essential criteria
  • Experience of involvement in original research or innovative service development
  • Able to present scientific papers at national and international conferences
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of original research

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Teresa Guerrero-Urbano
Job title
Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

For additional information please contact: [email protected]

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