Applications are invited for a highly experienced and motivated radiographer or dosimetrist to act as practitioner lead for adaptive radiotherapy within radiotherapy physics at The Christie. The applicant is required to have HCPC/RTC or equivalent registration, extensive treatment planning experience including novel techniques, as well as experience in quality improvement projects, technical service development and change management.
The successful applicant will work within a multidisciplinary team to develop the online adaptive radiotherapy service to be delivered using the Elekta Evo treatment platform. The service should build on the existing adaptive radiotherapy service that is currently delivered via the Elekta Unity MR Linac. There will be opportunity to contribute to the future development and innovation of adaptive radiotherapy workflows and clinical implementation.
Our clinical service relies on a variety of radiotherapy IT systems including RayStation and Monaco for treatment planning, the Mosaiq oncology management system and LimbusAI for auto-contouring. The successful applicant will need to develop expertise in these systems to fulfil the role. Training and development will be offered to support the development of skills as required.
This position will involve some proportion of the individual’s time being spent providing routine clinical and management duties within treatment planning at The Christie.
Adaptive Radiotherapy
The successful candidate will provide their treatment planning and workflow experience within the multidisciplinary team working to develop and implement online adaptive radiotherapy on the Elekta Evo treatment platform. This will involve leading a wide range of projects including quality improvement, technical service development and change management.
Clinical work in RT physics
The successful candidate will achieve and maintain planning and checking competency in a range of clinical sites including one specialist area within treatment planning.
Management
The role will involve line management responsibility for other staff and supervision of trainees.
The successful candidate will manage a range of projects relating to the implementation of adaptive radiotherapy with varying complexity and priorities.
The post holder will be required to deputise in the absence of the Lead Practitioner within Treatment Planning, including operational management of the treatment planning department.
Research & Development
The successful candidate will be expected to represent The Christie at relevant external meetings and conferences including the presentation and publication of their own work.
Teaching & training
The postholder will provide training for all staff across the radiotherapy network with specific focus on adaptive planning. They will deliver specialist teaching on external courses including MSc courses in collaboration with the University of Manchester.
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rhiannon Goldstraw Job title: Lead Practitioner Radiotherapy Physics Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 01614468426
