Job summary
- Main area
- Radiography
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 19 months (2 x Radiographers (0.5 WTE) Fixed term / secondments until 31/03/2028)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 120-AHP164-0726
- Employer
- Velindre Cancer Centre
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Velindre Cancer Service / Velindre @Nevill Hall Radiotherapy Unit
- Town
- Cardiff/ Abergavenny
- Salary
- £50,129 - £57,365 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Team Lead Therapeutic Radiographer- OART Development - INTERNAL
Band 7
Thank you for your interest in working for Velindre Cancer Centre (VCC), which is a committed equal opportunities employer. VCC welcomes applications from people who share our vision;
Velindre University NHS Trust will be recognised locally, nationally and internationally as a renowned organisation of excellence for patient and donor care, education and research.
our values;
- Caring
- Respectful
- Accountable
& who will complement our current experienced and specialist employees who are passionate about working in an organisation with the ambition to provide world class services & care to our patients.
VCC is an amazing place to work & develop your career. It is undertaking a 5 year transformation programme which will enable cancer services to meet the future needs of our patients across South East Wales. Not only will programme see VCC moving into a new purpose built cancer hospital, it will provide opportunities for patients to receive treatments closer to their homes. The infrastructure changes will offer our employees opportunities to work across a number of sites, in new and different ways, create development opportunities & increase flexible working practices.
VCC provides our employees with a favourable salary and reward / staff benefits & support package.
For more information on this vacancy please contact the recruiting manager, who will be pleased to discuss it with you.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
The Trust also reserves the right to close a vacancy early or withdraw an advertisement at any stage of the process, to enable internal staff requiring to be redeployed in suitable roles.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
The salary scale for a Band 3 has been adjusted as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2026/2027 and will be implemented in August 2026 backdated to 01 April 2026 where applicable.
Job overview
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY CARDIFF AND VALE UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD
We are pleased to announce, following a successful ARC bid for Online Adaptive Radiotherapy (oART), we are able to recruit 2 x Radiographers (0.5 WTE) secondments until 31 March 2028.
These exciting roles will be pivotal to an All-Wales collaborative project focused on developing and implementing the clinical use of online Adaptive Radiotherapy (oART) across Wales. Successful candidates will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to support the ongoing development, evaluation, and integration of this innovative treatment approach into routine clinical practice. While image-guided radiotherapy has already been optimised within Velindre Cancer Service (VCS), the introduction of Varian Ethos technology enables real-time adaptation of an individual patient's treatment plan.
BASE : VCC Cardiff or V@NHRU – To be requested at interview. Please note that all interviews will be conducted face-to-face only. Internal Only
This post is fixed term/secondment until 31/03/2028..
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
PLEASE NOTE Applicants will need to get permission from their line manager before submitting their interest, a release form to be included with your application form can be downloaded here. (This form is for the staff member and line manager to complete and return to you)
Main duties of the job
To have a central role in the VCS Radiotherapy Team, working collaboratively with a large multidisciplinary team to lead on and support others in the development, clinical integration and evaluation of advanced radiotherapy techniques, specifically, Online Adaptive Radiotherapy (OART) including IGRT (CT, MRI and CBCT) SGRT, contouring, and associated protocol optimisation across the radiotherapy service.
To play a key role as part of a large multidisciplinary team in assessing and putting in to practice where appropriate online adaptive radiotherapy training programme, validation of systems and processes of the OART hardware and software within the department .
To provide expertise and advise in support of the Radiotherapy multidisciplinary team. To organise and manage the OART workload and take responsibility for the associated training and supervision of the team. To develop staff to achieve their potential for self and the service.
To independently lead (and contribute to others) research related activity ensuring high-quality data management, analysis and dissemination through publication/presentation of research work.
To actively train and educate health professionals in a variety of settings e.g. formal lectures, seminars, small group training.
To work flexibly according to the demands of the service, including weekends and across more than one site.
Working for our organisation
Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to provide the key principles of prudent healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.
If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.
Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- B.Sc. (Hons) in Therapeutic Radiography or Diploma of College of Radiographers DCR (T)
- Registration with Health Care Professions Council
- Evidence of CPD (continuing professional development) gained through short courses at Masters level or equivalent
- A thorough and detailed knowledge and understanding of principles and concepts underpinning the applications and techniques used in radiotherapy
- Knowledge and understanding of current oncology issues
- Full knowledge of radiation regulations
- Knowledge of research and development
Desirable criteria
- Masters Level education or willingness to work towards
- Leadership or management studies/ qualification
- Understanding of NHS Wales
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with a whole range of highly specialised and highly complex radiotherapy equipment
- Significant experience with imaging processes and systems and image review and analysis
- Significant experience in Organ Motion Management strategies
- Sound practical ability
- Experience in undertaking Audit/Clinical Audit
Desirable criteria
- Quality assurance
- Experience of working with Varian and/or Elekta equipment
- Student assessment
- Teaching/mentoring and/or assessment experience
- Experience of clinical project management
- Experience of developing/ delivering training programmes
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Organisational skills
- Technically sound
- Excellent demonstrable clinical and judgement skills
- Clinical decision making
- Interpersonal skill
- IT skills
- Adaptable to change
- Shows initiative/ drive
- Self-motivated and ability to motivate others
- Effective, Collaboration, Reliable and punctual
- Flexible approach to work and needs of the service
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh to Level 1
- Supervisory skills – radiographers and students
- Mentoring skills
- Teaching skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Excellence in Patient care
- Adhere to trust values
- Physically able to carry out duties of a Therapeutic Radiographer including inanimate and animate manual handling requirements
- Flexibility of working times
- Willing to work across 2/3 sites as required by role
- An understanding that work may be required to cover · Emergency and on call treatments · Routine working during evenings and weekends · Shifts and/ or extended days to suit the service
Desirable criteria
- Ability to lift static loads and non-static loads in accordance with manual handling regulations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Samantha Allen
- Job title
- Deputy Radiotherapy Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02920 615888
- Additional information
ext. 6258
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