Job summary
We are seeking an exceptional candidate who has a passion for radiotherapy quality management, a detailed understanding of radiotherapy quality assurance and governances processes to ensure a quality driven, safe and effective services . If this sound like you, then we want to hear from you.
The successful candidate will join our team of section lead radiographers to implement, control and maintain the accredited Radiotherapy Quality Assurance system throughout the Radiotherapy service, which includes administration, pre-treatment and treatment functions and to closely liaise with RT medical physics as a supportive service.
As Radiotherapy Quality Manager you must have excellent IT skills, outstanding communication, organisational and management skills to motivate and lead your team, and create an environment in which staff and students can develop their skills and reach their full potential.
Routine working practice for Guy's Cancer Centre is Monday - Friday between the core hours of 7:45am-8pm with bank holiday and weekend working taking place as required in line with the department and service operational needs.
This is a fixed term maternity leave cover post
Main duties of the job
You will be a key contributor to support the service to meet national and Trust quality standards and generate information and activity reports for use by the service in operational monitoring, planning and performance monitoring.
You will be responsible for maintaining high operational standards across a large multi-disciplinary team to provide the multidisciplinary clinical staff with the support to effectively implement the principles and practice of clinical governance, to ensure the service meets local needs while following best practice, professional guidelines and national legislations or regulations .
About us
The Radiotherapy Service serves a catchment population of approximately 1.6 million and is the provider of radiotherapy for the six London boroughs - Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. The service also receives national referrals from St John's SkinClinic, based at GSTFT, for patients requiring specialist skin radiotherapy; superficial treatment and Total Skin Electron Body radiotherapy (TSEBT). Equipped with eight state of the art Truebeam linear accelerators and a Tomotherapy unit the department is fully equipped to offerIG-IMRT as routine practise, as well as TBI and stereotactic body and intracranial treatment.The service is delivered from three physical locations; Lambeth Wing at St Thomas' Hospital, and from Cancer Centre at Guy's Hospital and Guy's Cancer at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent. Low dose rate prostate brachytherapy is undertaken in theatre at Guy's Hospital.The department at Queen Marys Hospital (QMH), Sidcup houses two of the nine linear accelerators and one CT scanner, offering radiotherapy services to the local populations. Radiotherapy treatment planning is centralised from the Cancer Centre at Guy's Hospital with remote network access from the QMH unit offering a complete paperless working environment.The unit undertakes all routine radical and palliative external beam treatment as well as emergency treatment within the core hours of the service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the job role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the job role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Education/Professional
Essential
- BSc/PgDip/DCRT - therapeutic Radioraphy
- MSc Therapeutic Radiography
- HCPC registered
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in area of specialisation or in Quality Assurance relevant to Oncology /Radiotherapy.
- Evidence of advanced IT skills
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of Incident management.
- Experience with using Q-Pulse or other quality database management.
- Experience of data management for report writing
- Experience of supervising/line manager of a staff group
Desirable
- Participation in Clinical Audit
- Experience of conducting staff appraisals
- Understanding of the complaints process and the ability to take an active role.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary team.
- Demonstrate leadership qualities and the ability to motivate staff to achieve their full potential
- Demonstrate a high level of communication skills, including the ability to deal with sensitive information
Desirable
- Aria report writing skills, or other such IT programme
Person Specification
Education/Professional
Essential
- BSc/PgDip/DCRT - therapeutic Radioraphy
- MSc Therapeutic Radiography
- HCPC registered
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in area of specialisation or in Quality Assurance relevant to Oncology /Radiotherapy.
- Evidence of advanced IT skills
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of Incident management.
- Experience with using Q-Pulse or other quality database management.
- Experience of data management for report writing
- Experience of supervising/line manager of a staff group
Desirable
- Participation in Clinical Audit
- Experience of conducting staff appraisals
- Understanding of the complaints process and the ability to take an active role.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary team.
- Demonstrate leadership qualities and the ability to motivate staff to achieve their full potential
- Demonstrate a high level of communication skills, including the ability to deal with sensitive information
Desirable
- Aria report writing skills, or other such IT programme
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
