Job Title: Therapeutic Radiographer
Agency: University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Eastbourne, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 31,049 – £ 37,796 / Year

Job Summary

Applications are invited from newly qualified therapy radiographers to join the Sussex Cancer Centre Radiotherapy team, to be based in Brighton. Radiotherapy provision for Sussex is currently provided across two hospital sites – Brighton and Eastbourne. There are CT Philips Widebore facilities and two Elekta Versa HD machines sited at Eastbourne, and a further matched CT and two Elekta Linacs at the Royal Sussex in Brighton, and two Tomotherapy machines, opened in 2016 in Preston Park, Brighton. There is a High Dose Rate brachytherapy facility in Brighton at the Cancer Centre, currently treating prostate, boost and monotherapy, skin and gynaecological malignancies. We welcome international applications, but require a score of 7 in IELTS

Main duties of the job

The post holder provides professional radiotherapy services within all the Sussex Cancer Centre locations, covering the planning, simulating, calculating, and treatment of cancer patients as well as liaising effectively with the multidisciplinary team. Once experienced the post holder will have the responsibility for the daily running of the Linear Accelerator through set competency training.

The post holder requires advanced clinical knowledge of radiotherapy procedures, tissue tolerances, and physiological reactions due to radiation exposure. The post holder practises in accordance with current legislation governing the use of ionising radiation IR(ME)R. High level of competence is required in the use of a wide range of highly complex technical and computerised systems, including;

• Linear accelerators for the delivery of radiation treatment,
• Computerised patient information and appointment management system
• Image matching programmes for verification and evaluation procedures during treatment QA equipment for daily tolerance checks
• Equipment for the delivery of high dose radiation: dual energy, dual modality Linear Accelerators Computerised Tomography (CT) scanners.
• Computerised treatment planning systems
• QA equipment for daily tolerance checks
• £2,000 R&R payment available

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