Job summary
- Main area
- Radiotherapy Physics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7457480
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Radiotherapy Physicist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly, forward-thinking department at the North Middlesex Hospital site in North London as a Band 7 Radiotherapy Physicist.
The department provides a comprehensive physics service to support the delivery of radiotherapy treatment at North Middlesex Hospital. This includes all treatment planning, machine quality assurance and the provision of molecular radiotherapy. The department consists of 9 clinical scientists, including this post, 6 dosimetrists and 4 engineering and technical staff.
The Radiotherapy department has a mix of Varian TrueBeam and Halcyon Linacs and an XStrahl superficial unit. One of our TrueBeams is to be replaced later this year, so there will lots of scope to get involved in commissioning of cutting-edge equipment. Varian Eclipse is used for all treatment planning activities, and we have ongoing projects to implement and expand knowledge based planning, AI auto-contouring, scripting and automation, and lots more besides.
Flexible working is supported across the Trust and the team continue to enjoy a hybrid pattern of on-site and working from home.
This would suit candidates who have recently completed their STP training and gained HCPC registration, although those due to complete soon are also encouraged to apply.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will participate in the general Radiotherapy Physics service provision to the North Middlesex Hospital site. The post holder may be required to specialise in one or more sections within the Radiotherapy Physics service.
The physicist’s role is to ensure the safe delivery of the Radiotherapy Physics service assisting the Head of the service as well as the designated Medical Physics Experts in their various areas of responsibility.
The post holder will be responsible to the Deputy Head of Radiotherapy Physics and to the Principal Physicists when working in their specific areas.
The post holder will also be expected to work closely with Radiotherapy Radiographers, Clinical Oncologists and Specialist Radiotherapy Registrars.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. 1. Clinical Scientific
1.1. Produce routine and complex treatment plans for external beam radiotherapy. Use computerised planning systems to design and customise treatment plans. Take responsibility for the accurate production of individualised treatment plans and associated dosimetry calculations.
1.2. Advise clinical staff on the effects of various treatment plan options on patient dose distributions. Discuss and agree approaches with clinical staff to create optimum treatment plans and advise on aspects of the treatment and patient set-up, as required.
1.3. Check and approve routine and complex treatment plans, dose calculations and templates produced by other members of staff.
2. 2. General
2.1. Provide support to Physics computing in Radiotherapy. Write software to the requirements of the department and adapt existing software packages as required. Monitor and resolve problems on computing systems in Radiotherapy and Radiotherapy Physics.
2.2. Participate in acceptance testing and commissioning of new equipment as appropriate.
Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role.
Person specification
Education and Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- (1st or 2nd class) Honours degree in a physical science or equivalent.
- Relevant Masters degree or equivalent
- IPEM training exit certificate or equivalent experience
- Registration as Clinical Scientist with HCPC or achievement within 12 months f appointment
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in the clinical environment with patients and clinical staff
- Good knowledge of radiotherapy physics, radiotherapy techniques and clinical applications
- Knowledge of appropriate legislation
- Knowledge of relevant anatomy, physiology and pathology
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate technical material to colleagues and other professionals
- Able to deal with complex and unpredictable situations
- Ability to organise own workload
- Exhibits independent approach to problem solving
- Exhibits a keen interest in research and development
Personal qualities and attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as one of a team
- Personal presentation acceptable to clinical staff and patients.
- Ability to show a sympathetic and caring attitude to patients of diverse cultures
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Pravin Mistri
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Radiotherapy Physics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 887 2630
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