Radiotherapy Clinical Educator

Job responsibilities

1. Communication & Relationship Skills

The post holder will provide and receive highly complex information. This may be sensitive in nature and may be contentious. This may be individual students, colleagues, senior managers or to patients or it may involve communication with groups. Communication may be within the Trust, with the partner-universities or with NHS-England, Department of Health or Health Education England personnel or committees.

2. Knowledge, Training & Experience

The post-holder will display a highly specialist level of knowledge in the areas of both education theory and practice and modern radiotherapy and oncology theory and technical and clinical practise. They will have professional clinical knowledge acquired through a BSc (Hons) in Radiotherapy and appropriate Oncology, Radiotherapy or Educational qualification at Masters level (e.g. MA, MSc or MEd). They will have significant experience in supervision and managing learners and personal experience of preparing and/or delivering modern advanced radiotherapy.

3. Analytical & Judgemental Skills

As a member of the education team in the radiotherapy service, the post-holder will be expected to advise the Education Principal Radiographer and the Professional Head of Radiotherapy about the education and training functions in the service. They will advise senior colleagues on the management of clinical education provision for pre-registration radiographers and pre-qualification assistant practitioners and on the continuous professional development requirements for all staff members. This will involve collecting, analysing and interpreting the complex and competing demands of the various staff groups in the service.

4. Planning & Organisational Skills

The post holder will plan and organise the rosters for learners and will ensure that the full roster is agreed with the partner universities to learning placements during their clinical placements. . They will support the Education Principal Radiographer and the section managers, in conducting a training needs analysis for each element of the service in a manner and timeframe as required by the Trust. They will be responsible for monitoring, auditing and reporting on this analysis to the Principal Radiographer periodically as agreed.

Working with the Education Principal Radiographer and the Lead Radiographer for Protons, the post-holder will participate in projects to design, implement and monitor clinical competencies and associated training needs for tiers of the Proton and Photon workforce.5. Physical Skills

The post-holder will be expected to develop and maintain the technical skills required to prepare, facilitate and/ or deliver a radiotherapy treatment, including use of the CT Scanner and Linear Accelerators and to be able to instruct others who are developing these skills. These highly-developed physical skills require millimetre accuracy in the utilisation of complex machinery.

6. Responsibility for Patient/Client Care

The post-holder will be rostered to undertake highly specialist clinical technical imaging or treatment services and will provide senior advice on these services to students and other learners and to more junior qualified colleagues. They will be required to act as the lead radiographer in on-call settings where they will supervise all clinical services being offered in this setting.

7. Responsibility for Policy/Service Development

The post-holder will be responsible for proposing departmental policy in relation to the education and training functions of the service and for overseeing the implementation of these educational policies across all geographical sites in which the Radiotherapy Service operates.

8. Responsibility for Financial & Physical Resources

The post-holder will be responsible for the safe use of expensive or highly complex equipment.

9. Responsibility for Human Resources

The post-holder will be responsible for highly specialist teaching to pre- and post-registration learners in radiotherapy. The post-holder will be involved in staff and student selection both on site at The Christie and elsewhere within the network of campuses and Trust-sites attached to partner universities.

10. Responsibility for Information Resources

The post-holder will record personally generated information and ensure a system is in place, compliant with best practice in data management and Trust and University policies, to record, collate, process and store information on the progress of learners. They will updates patient records and maintain departmental databases as appropriate.

11. Responsibility for Research & Development

The post-holder will not be expected to undertake research as a major job function but will be expected to support colleagues undertaking research, top maintain an awareness of current clinical trials and ensure this is included in the educational update programme and to image or treat patients involved in clinical trials. However, the post-holder may undertake independent research with the agreement of the Professional Head of Radiotherapy.

This job description is not exhaustive and will be reviewed periodically to take into account changes and developments in service requirements. Any changes will be discussed fully with the post-holder.

Qualifications

Essential

• DCR(T) or BSc (Hons) Therapeutic Radiographer State Registered Therapeutic Radiographer
• HCPC Registration.
• Evidence of CPD activity
• Evidence of post graduate study/education in area relevant to role.

Desirable

• M level qualification in associated subject.
• Management qualification.
• IT Skills

Experience

Essential

• Expert experience with a contemporary range of equipment and techniques.
• Expert experience of working with ISO 9001/2008 or equivalent accredited quality system.
• Significant experience at a senior level.
• Team management experience.
• Evidence of participation in audit, research and-or radiotherapy development work.

Desirable

• Experience/awareness of clinical practice at other Radiotherapy centres.
• Participation in the implementation of new equipment or technology.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively and manage conflict resolution with all grades of staff, patients, carers and general public.
• Effective people management skills of all staff.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and autonomously.
• Ability to motivate junior members of the team.
• Excellent leadership skills, organisation and decision making skills under pressure in a clinical environment.
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills.
• Ability to lead the introduction of new techniques, equipment or software.
• Excellent technical skills and dexterity.
• Excellent contemporary image interpretation skills.

Desirable

• Demonstrate ambition in personal development and in service development.
• Good presentation skills.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge and experience of advanced and complex treatment techniques.
• Advanced knowledge of IR(ME)R 2000 and IRR 1999 and responsibilities relating to own professional practice.
• Good knowledge of other relevant legislation, guidance and national working parties in radiotherapy.
• Expert knowledge of the principles of radiotherapy applied to all aspects of the radiotherapy pathway.
• Excellent radiotherapy physics and anatomy

Desirable

• Awareness of current trends in radiotherapy

Values

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours.

Other

Essential

• Flexibility in working hours. Ability to travel to other Christie sites when requested. Participation in on-call service.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).