Review Radiotherapy Radiographer Band 7

Job summary

Review Radiotherapy Radiographer Band 7

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Radiotherapy Radiographer to join our team. The Trust is delighted to invite applications from enthusiastic, forward-thinking radiographers with a keen interest in working autonomously within our review team whilst maintaining a passion for team working and service development.

Working within the Patient Review Team and alongside, the site specialist review radiographers, you will support primarily our radiotherapy + chemoradiotherapy patients based at our satellite centre at East Surrey Hospital. This involves anticipating, identifying and actively managing common and complex treatment related side effects, routinely undertaking assessment of a patients symptoms using advanced knowledge and skills to analyse often highly complex clinical situations. You will evaluate all data and information relevant to patients treatments and ensure that the patient and their relatives are treated with dignity and respect at all times. This includes assessing the psychosocial needs of the patient and family and providing skilled support, signposting and making appropriate referrals to other services both within the hospital and the wider community setting.

Main duties of the job

As a Review Radiographer you will be responsible for providing emotional and holistic support to patients and discussing matters of a highly sensitive nature. You will act as the patients voice, assist in conducting audits and studies to improve patient experience within the department and participate in the production of patient information material.

St Lukes Cancer Centre is focused on providing excellent patient pathways and patient-centred care. We strive to continuously evolve to reflect the technical advances within Radiotherapy. To that end, we have recently announced the replacement of two of our Varian TrueBeams with a Varian ETHOS and a Varian Halcyon at our satellite centre. These units will be the first in the NHS for in-bore SGRT and we are scheduled to be the first Centre to implement Hypersight later this year. Surface guided radiotherapy system installation will further improve the accuracy of treatment and present the opportunity for tattoo-less radiotherapy. Once installed, our patients will benefit from access to two ETHOS units, one Halcyon and four TrueBeams across our two radiotherapy centres.

We have three planning CT scanners, an exceptional Brachytherapy service which provides HDR, LDR and Papillon kV contact treatment; as well as an Xstrahl superficial machine.

About us

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is a friendly, supportive, busy but welcoming acute and community Trust that is ambitious about developing our services and your career.

Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development. There are over 4,500 members of our Royal Surrey family.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in the community and homes across Guildford and Waverley.

We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC. We are investing in our colleagues through our health and wellbeing programme and a commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.

There has never been a better time to join us.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare Nhs Trust

Canada Avenue

Redhill

RH1 5RH

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare Nhs Trust

Canada Avenue

Redhill

RH1 5RH

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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