Registered Clinical Scientist in Radiotherapy Physics

Job summary

TheSatellite Radiotherapy CentreatNevill Hall HospitalinAbergavenny is currently under construction and is expected to open by the beginning of 2025. Radiotherapy equipment at the new Velindre Cancer centre will include Varian BRAVOS brachytherapy, 6 Varian Halcyon machines, 2 Varian Truebeams (HD) and a dedicated research machine.

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.

The sections are Brachytherapy, Computing, Dosimetry, Treatment Planning and national trials quality assurance as part of the national Radiotherapy Trial Quality Assurance group (RTTQA). It is therefore expected that the postholder will develop specialist expertise in one area of the department and gain a broad understanding of all aspects of radiotherapy, rotating around each section every 2 years.

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.

The brachytherapy service is located at the Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work under the direction of a section manager and / or Medical Physics Expert to perform the full range of routine, implementation and development work associated with providing radiotherapy physics services to the cancer centre

The post holder will work as a registered clinical scientist,participating in the band 7 rotation of scientists entailing working approximately 0.4WTE in a dedicated section, 0.1 on general quality assurance and checking duties and 0.4WTE in one other section of radiotherapy physics on a 6 monthly basis. 0.1WTE is assigned to personal development and research and development outside of any allocated work making up part of the work plan.

Medical Physics provides all the background scientific and technical data, advice and expertise to the radiotherapy and physics departments for the treatment machines, CT simulators, computer systems and specialized devices. This is fundamental for patient doses to be prescribed and given correctly, the safe operation of equipment and staff protection from X-Rays. It includes specifications for the equipment, their calibration and QA, repair & maintenance, data networking and computer control, and individualized patient dose computations.

There is also an active research group within the department, with which the post holder is encouraged to engage.

About us

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 ouraward-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/