Clinical Oncology Research Fellow in Breast Radiotherapy

at  Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

This exciting opportunity will provide the successful applicant with expertise in radiotherapy service development working alongside Medical Physics to implement VMAT techniques for nodal irradiation/simultaneous integrated boost and embed auto-contouring technology for breast radiotherapy voluming.
During the 12-month fellowship, the successful applicant will gain experience and competence in advanced management of Breast cancer. The fellowship post includes a breast systemic therapies clinic and breast radiotherapy clinic to maintain and develop clinical competencies.
In this year’s NHS staff survey, our employees voted MTW in the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and second in the South East of Trusts to work for.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.
We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The fellow will work closely with other team members of the multi-disciplinary team including physicists, dosimetrists, keyworkers and undertake a service development project jointly with the physics fellow focussing on implementation of auto contouring and VMAT techniques for breast .
The fellow will gain experience in advanced radiotherapy techniques including SABR, IGRT, VMAT and MR Linac.
The fellow will have opportunity for some exposure to Proton Beam therapy in Head and Neck. There is an optional (not required) opportunity to gain experience in immunotherapies and chemotherapy for head and neck and non melanoma skin cancers.
The fellow will be actively involved in the recruitment and treatment planning of patients recruited into multi-centred clinical trials including SABR and Proton Beam Therapy trials

Please refer the Job description for details