Job summary
- Main area
- Radiotherapy Physics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (End date: End of November)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (shifts from 7am til 9pm occasional weekend working may be requested)
- Job ref
- 361-7385804
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
- Town
- Northwood
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum-pro rata, plus 15% High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/11/2025
Employer heading
Assistant Physicist - Radiotherapy Physics
NHS AfC: Band 5
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for an Assistant Physicist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Radiotherapy physics is part of a multi-disciplinary team in a large Cancer Centre.
The Section consists of Clinical Scientists, practitioners in radiotherapy physics, radiographers, linac and computer engineers.
The centre has 7 Varian linear accelerators, and a brachytherapy suite. Patient treatments are planned on one of our dedicated wide bore CT scanners with access to, MR and CT-PET imaging within the Paul Strickland Scanner centre.
As the post is for 1 year, the successful applicant will be trained to do a limited number of the tasks in the job description, the time spent in a clinical department will give invaluable experience to anyone interested in a future career in radiotherapy physics.
When applying for this position, please make sure to answer the questions below within your supporting statement:
- How do you demonstrate that you work to the Trust Values: include examples from outside of your work/study experience
- Please explain why you want to work in radiotherapy physic
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The Assistant Physicist will assist with patient specific measurements and calculations.
The post holder will assist with quality assurance measurements on linear accelerators.
To assist with planning of patient treatments on the computerised treatment planning system
To assist in theatre for brachytherapy procedures
To perform some data analysis and processing
Personal initiative, a keen sense of responsibility, manual dexterity and a high degree of accuracy are expected in all duties. Although experience of working with radiation is desirable, it is not a requirement and appropriate training will be provided
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against se
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £4,552 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata.
ENHT is seeking to maintain and expand the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre staff as we move to an exciting new future.
We welcome applications from those who would relish the opportunity to be part of new and developing cancer service, building on the excellent reputation, research and patient experience the Cancer Centre already delivers.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- BSc or equivalent in a Science or Engineering Discipline, involving data measurement and analysis.
- Maths and Physics A level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Physics degree or physics courses within degree
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Project work involving extensive measurement and analysis of data
- Ability to perform routine measurements on treatment machines with guidance where required
- Ability to perform individual patient QA for IMRT
- Working in a team environment (can be as a member of a student team at university level)
Desirable criteria
- Treatment planning for simple sites (eg breast and prostate)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate across professions
- Self-organised – able to work in a very busy environment
- Diligence and attention to detail commensurate with clinical nature of systems to be supported
- Numerate
- Computer literate – able to use Excel and Word
- Good spatial awareness skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of radiation theory and its application to radiotherapy
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Happy to work within a small team in a large NHS department
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Karen Venables
- Job title
- Head of Radiotherapy Physics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02038262284
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