Senior Dosimetrist

About the role

As a registered Dosimetrist, Clinical Technologist or Therapeutic Radiographer you will be responsible for supporting the Dose Planning section and wider Radiotherapy Department ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care. The Dosimetry Team is split across two sites, one at Newcastle and one in Carlisle. This post is for a position based at the Cumberland Infirmary Site in Carlisle. The post holder is responsible for providing technical aspects of the radiotherapy dose planning service at Cumberland Infirmary site or Freeman Hospital for patients having their treatment delivered at North Cumbria Integrated Care and The Northern Centre for Cancer Care. The post holder is responsible for ensuring effective communications within their service and across professional boundaries, overcoming barriers to understanding. The post holder works independently, within occupational guidelines, and is responsible for management of their own workload. The post holder is expected to be involved in research and development projects as required and will be supported through a comprehensive in-house competency-based training programme.

Responsibilities

• Managing the daily organisation of own workload to ensure the delivery of the highly specialist external beam radiotherapy dose planning service to North Cumbria Integrated Care (NCIC) and the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC).
• For individual patients, designing the radiotherapy plan and determining the treatment parameters on a treatment planning system.
• For individual patients, validating treatment data generated to ensure its integrity and appropriateness for clinical use and exporting it for treatment.
• Responsible, with the clinician, for designing highly complex plans for individual patients with dosimetric problems and where appropriate communicating the complex information of the plan to other staff groups.
• Participating in research development projects from inception to completion.
• Contributing to the delivery of training and education of all staff groups and visitors to the section.
• Providing the technical aspects of the radiotherapy dose planning service at Freeman Hospital/Cumberland Infirmary sites.
• Performing a range of specialist healthcare science activities.
• Involvement in research and development projects