Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Senior Therapeutic Radiographer (Band 6)

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Job summary

The team is like an extended family, with a real sense of community where everyone looks out for each other - Portsmouth Radiographer Portsmouth Radiotherapy department covers a wide catchment area, treating patients from Portsmouth, Southampton, West Sussex, and the Isle of Wight. As well as a daily routine of scanning, planning, and treating patients, we also offer an out of hours service at the weekends. We would love to welcome new and experienced senior Radiographers to join our team. You will find a motivated, enthusiastic and forward-thinking department, who won the Society of Radiographers Regional South East Team of the Year 2023. We are keen to support you in your own development and working hard to improve the quality of treatment for our patients. As part of the band 6 role, we are looking to meet the new Health Education England (HEE) standards of having enhanced practitioners within our workforce. Enhanced practice is a level of practice within the healthcare workforce for those delivering the majority of clinical activity who have moved beyond novice/competent and who are not working at the level of advanced practice. This is a highly valued, broad and essential level of practice which we are exploring and hope to give those opportunities to our band 6 radiographers in the future.

Main duties of the job

We have four TrueBeam 3.0 linear accelerators which include the advanced IGRT imaging such as online 4DCBCT, iCBCT and triggered imaging. We have 6DOF couches in use for H+N, upper GI and Lung SABR patients, alongside abdomen compression immobilisation. We have a wide-bore Siemens GOSIM CT scanner which was installed in January 2022. We also run Brachytherapy, Orthovoltage and on-treatment review services. We link all of our department together using ARIA V15.6 and are a completely paperless department. We have Consultant Radiographers in breast and Urology and are due to increase these opportunities very soon. We are also actively recruiting radiographer apprentices and advanced practitioners in the near future. For more detailed information and pictures of our department, please see the PHU Radiotherapy Department Brochure link in the additional information section We actively encourage diversity in our workforce, and would welcome applications from Radiographers currently working outside of the UK (with HCPC registration).

About us

Our future developments for the department are to expand our SABR program for oligometastases and have had RTTQA approval to be a trial centre for PACE-NODES, comparing 5 SABR for Prostates and Prostate and nodes. We intend to implement the use of an auto-contouring software to make planning more efficient and have aspirations of purchasing and installing SGRT in the summer of 2024 to move towards tattoo-less setups. We would welcome informal visits to the department, or a Teams call to discuss the post and opportunities we can offer. Please contact Ben Meigh - ben.meigh@porthosp.nhs.uk if you would like to discuss the role.

Date posted

11 January 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

REF380U

Job locations

Queen Alexandra Hospital

Southwick Hill Road, Portsmouth

PO63LY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

1. The post holder, in absence of a team leader, manages the administrative and patient workload of a defined area, and manages the complexities of a treatment course, supervises and teaches staff in a work base, providing an efficient and high quality radiation treatment service

2. The post holder, assists the Team Leaders in maintaining the highest professional and technical standards in the department

3. When assigned to do so, lead a small team undertaking radiotherapy treatment, and rotate through the radiotherapy CT planning section, performing tasks accurately and effectively, and providing a safe and efficient service to patients

4. Interpret complex technical data, utilising professional judgment in the practical application of treatment plans and in accordance with local protocols

5. Provide high standard of patient care and support through all stages of the patient pathway, ensuring patients receive timely and accurate information regarding planning and treatment

6. Responsible for daily clinical evaluation of the patient before, during and after treatment, assessing their fitness for treatment, ensuring the safe delivery of the patients radiation exposure and the accurate recording of treatment data

7. Possess a detailed knowledge of radiotherapy equipment, keep abreast of new trends, technologies and techniques

8. Responsible for own and teams compliance with quality assurance protocols within the department and IR(ME)R (2017) , IRR17 regulations, pertaining to the radiotherapy treatment equipment and pre- treatment equipment

9. Report and record all equipment faults in a timely fashion, according to departmental procedures

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

2. The post holder, assists the Team Leaders in maintaining the highest professional and technical standards in the department

4. Interpret complex technical data, utilising professional judgment in the practical application of treatment plans and in accordance with local protocols

5. Provide high standard of patient care and support through all stages of the patient pathway, ensuring patients receive timely and accurate information regarding planning and treatment

7. Possess a detailed knowledge of radiotherapy equipment, keep abreast of new trends, technologies and techniques

9. Report and record all equipment faults in a timely fashion, according to departmental procedures

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Essential
BSc Therapeutic Radiography or DCR(T) or equivalent
HCPC registration to practice as a Therapeutic Radiographer
Post-graduate education (or be willing to take part in Level 7 education to become Senior Enhanced Practitioner if opportunity arises)

Experience

Essential

Experience as working as a Band 5 within a clinical cardiology environment.
Experience in all routine clinical Cardiac physiological testing invasive and non-invasive Cardiology.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Essential
BSc Therapeutic Radiography or DCR(T) or equivalent
HCPC registration to practice as a Therapeutic Radiographer
Post-graduate education (or be willing to take part in Level 7 education to become Senior Enhanced Practitioner if opportunity arises)

Experience

Essential

Experience as working as a Band 5 within a clinical cardiology environment.
Experience in all routine clinical Cardiac physiological testing invasive and non-invasive Cardiology.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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