11 Oct
Oxford University Hospitals
Oxford
Job description
Job overview
RADIOTHERAPY PHYSICS GROUP
Maternity cover - months fixed term post
Senior Radiotherapy Physicist (Band )
We are looking to recruit a band scientist to join our team in our modern and excellently equipped department. You will ideally already be HCPC registered as a clinical scientist but applications are also welcome from trainees nearing qualification (if not yet registered appointment to a lower band may be considered until registration is achieved).
Main duties of the job
You will undertake the full range of radiotherapy physicist duties, including treatment planning, checking, brachytherapy, equipment commissioning and QA, training staff and advising clinicians.
There will also be involvement in developing new techniques and collaborative research projects with the University are encouraged.
The OUH Radiotherapy Centre at the Churchill Hospital is a five linac, all-Varian (including Halcyon, TrueBeam) site with CT-sim, ARIA, Eclipse and HDR brachytherapy unit, plus a prostate seed brachytherapy service.
Our existing satellite centre in Swindon operates a further two linacs and a CT-sim. A second satellite centre in Milton Keynes operating a single linac and CT-sim will open later in .
Supporting systems include AI auto-contouring and RadCalc. We have a modern suite of treatment planning functionality including RapidPlan, MCO, HyperArc and Velocity, and we treat with a wide variety of techniques including SRS / SRT and SABR.
We have a range of development work underway and on the horizon and also an active computing team working to develop software and scripts for automation and data analysis.
We have close links with the CRUK / MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology and an expanding portfolio of clinical trials
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
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