Job summary
- Main area
- Radiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (to be worked as 3 x 7.5 hour days)
- Job ref
- 290-SCCS-1957
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/09/2025
Employer heading
Macmillan Radiotherapy Treatment Team Leader
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
A part-time (22.5 hours per week), band 7 Treatment Team Leader opportunity has arisen for an experienced Therapeutic Radiographer who is ready to move into a senior leadership role. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic individual who will fit in quickly with the treatment team.
We have now established our SABR treatment delivery programme and are using SGRT on our newest linac. We also treat intra-cranial SRS as well as TBI & TLNI. You will have the opportunity to expand your knowledge across treatment and pre-treatment pathways and you will be expected to participate in the emergency on-call rota.
We actively support professional development and encourage radiographer led research and QI projects. We support leadership development with excellent leadership development programmes delivered by the Trust. We support flexible working arrangements and all applicants would be expected to support the working hours of the service and work across sites.
Operating mainly from our Charing Cross site, our equipment portfolio includes five True Beam Linacs (one based at Hammersmith Hospital), Siemens go.Open Pro CT scanner and Xstrahl unit; our Elekta Flexitron Brachytherapy unit is based at Hammersmith Hospital in a dedicated brachytherapy suite. We are due to embark on a linac replacement programme at Charing cross and are currently upgrading our Aria system.
Main duties of the job
- To provide high quality, effective individualised treatment and care to all patients
- To carry out all practical aspects involved in preparation and delivery of radiotherapy treatments
- To lead & support teams in allocated treatment areas on a rotational basis
- To support with the coordination, implementation, and continuous development of a quality improvement culture within the Radiotherapy service.
- To support with the coordination, implementation, and continuous development of a culture of safe, high quality care in the Radiotherapy service, through effective and robust integrated governance processes and procedures, including statutory and regulatory compliance
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- DCR(T) or BSC in Therapy Radiography and registered with HCPC
- Evidence of personal development and attendance at specialist courses and conferences
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate study in related specialist subjects
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and good understanding of electronic patient management systems, and treatment and image verification systems including downloading data, entering data and checking data
- Demonstrable experience working in a senior clinical role supervising radiotherapy teams
- Experience in radiotherapy imaging techniques and able to analyse images and formulate action plans
Desirable criteria
- Experience in leading project work
- Experience in specialist radiotherapy roles
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Understands the risks associated with radiation and the optimisation of patients treatments
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of standard and non-standard complex and conformal techniques
- Thorough understanding of IR(ME)R and its application
- Ability to remain calm and deal with stressful situations
- Used to working with change and innovation
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of operational management processes
- Knowledge and skills relating to learning and development of others
- Knowledge and skills relating to research and development
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katie Perkins
- Job title
- Macmillan Treatment & Imaging Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 331 17647
- Additional information
Alternative contact email [email protected]
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