Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Radiotherapy Department at BHRUT NHS Trust as a permanent Band 7 Therapeutic Radiographer Team Leader.
We are seeking an experienced, HCPC-registered Therapeutic Radiographer with excellent clinical, leadership and communication skills. The successful candidate will lead and support a team of radiographers, ensuring the safe, effective and efficient delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care while contributing to service development and workforce growth.
As a Team Leader, you will provide day-to-day operational leadership, supporting staff development, education, training and service improvement. You will work closely with multidisciplinary colleagues to maintain high clinical standards and deliver excellent patient care.
The department serves patients across East London and Essex and delivers advanced radiotherapy techniques including IMRT, VMAT, IGRT, DIBH, SRS, SABR and online adaptive radiotherapy. We are committed to innovation and have implemented Identify Surface Guided Radiotherapy (SGRT) across our treatment platforms.
Our facilities include:
- Halcyon Edge with SRS/SABR capability
- Ethos with HyperSight and online adaptive radiotherapy
- Siemens Wide-Bore CT Scanner
- Identify SGRT
- ARIA, Eclipse and Ethos treatment systems
- Q-Pulse Quality Management System
- Varian Noona PRO App
Based at Queen's Hospital, Romford, this is an excellent opportunity to join a progressive and forward-thinking radiotherapy service.
Main duties of the job
- Accountable for own professional actions
- Be recognised and accessible as an expert and team leader in their specific field: promoting best practice, giving expert advice, delegating and disseminating knowledge to the profession and to the wider health care arena
- Plan and deliver complex radiotherapy procedures to a wide range of benign and malignant conditions to a high level of accuracy. Use individual judgement on a daily basis to verify and maintain reproducible and precise treatment
- Work within departmental protocols, deviating where necessary to reach sound conclusions and provide optimum care
- Work autonomously within the legal, ethical and professional framework provided by the professional body
- Generate new solutions to identify and best meet the needs of the patient
Benefits
- Competitive salary: £44,419 to £50,121 a year
- Part-time, permanent contract
Person Specification
- BSc in Therapeutic radiography or equivalent formal qualification
- Health & Care Profession Council (HCPC) registration as a therapy radiographer
- Significant postgraduate experience with specialist training, knowledge and experience to master's level or equivalent
- Excellent communication skills to relate confidently across all professional boundaries to Trust staff and external contacts