Job summary
- Main area
- Radiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 18 months (Fixed term for 18 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-SCCS-1994
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Radiotherapy Physicist
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We seek a motivated and dynamic radiotherapy physicist to support all areas of the service including SRS, SABR, SGRT, brachytherapy, our radioiodine service and to participate in the roll out of projects, including the commissioning of two new Radixact inacs.
You will join a team of 35+ scientists, dosimetrists, engineers & technicians providing a full range of complex radiotherapy services at both, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals.
The service has 5 Varian TrueBeam linacs (2 of which are being replaced with Radixact linacs), a CT scanner, an Xstrahl superficial unit and an Elekta Flexitron unit. Two of the TrueBeam linacs also have an ExacTrac and the 1 has VisionRT. The department delivers stereotactic cranial radiotherapy (SRS), on the TrueBeam STx and SABR for a range of sites. Planning is carried out on Raystation, Eclipse, Elements (SRS) and Oncentra Brachy.
The department has excellent experience in delivering education and training in medical physics at all levels; STP and HSST, and hosts the London North Medical Physics Training Consortium and has close links with Imperial College.
The department is active with research with direct staff involvement with on-going clinical trials and has a positive attitude towards CPD funding training and educational opportunities including leadership courses.
You should have or are about to achieve HCPC registration as a Clinical Scientist in radiotherapy physics.
Main duties of the job
- Provide extensive and highly complex scientific expertise to the Trust radiotherapy department at the Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospital sites.
- Provide scientific support to all aspects of the work of the Radiotherapy Physics Group.
- Perform measurement of radiation output from treatment machines such as high-energy linear accelerators and high-activity radioactive sources used to produce therapeutic radiation beams.
- Perform quality assurance of treatment machines.
- Perform computerised treatment planning, and perform second checks on treatment plans, for patients undergoing radiation therapy for cancer.
- Perform radiation dose measurements on patients, ensuring safety of patients and staff in a hazardous radiation environment, ensuring equipment is operating safely.
- Investigate complex problems and provide advice on the physics aspects of radiotherapy treatments to other clinical staff.
- Undertake the evaluation, selection, procurement and acceptance testing of expensive and sophisticated equipment.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st or 2nd class honours degree in physics or related subject.
- Relevant M.Sc. and/or Ph.D. in Medical Physics or related subject.
- Certificate of Attainment /Registration as a clinical scientist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Basic familiarity with relevant radiation protection legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines [e.g. Ionising Radiations Regulations (IRR), Ionising Radiations (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IRMER), ISO9000, BSI, professional and regulatory body reports, etc.].
- At least two years post-graduate experience of working/training in a clinical environment.
- Good understanding of the complex physics underpinning the treatment of cancer by radiation and appreciation of the risks to patients arising from treatment planning errors, treatment errors, equipment failure and errors in radiation dose.
- Advanced knowledge of WORD, EXCEL and POWERPOINT, etc. for scientific report writing, preparation of presentations and program/spreadsheet development.
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess complex scientific issues (e.g. in relation to radiation dose measurement, equipment performance, treatment planning, etc.) and to exercise judgement over best course of action, referring to others for advice as necessary.
- Ability to plan ongoing routine activities, organising the work of trainees as may occasionally be required.
- Able to concentrate on complex issues when acting as Duty Physicist and when subjected to hectic and unpredictable working patterns
- Ability to maintain clarity of purpose in a clinical environment within which there is constant emotional pressure.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Olivia Channon
- Job title
- Principal Radiotherapy Physicist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 331 11725
- Additional information
Ruth McLauchlan
Consultant Radiotherapy Physicist
020 331 11725
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