Pre-Treatment - Senior Therapeutic Radiographer

at  Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

ORGANISATIONS WITHIN SCOPE ARE AS FOLLOWS:

• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
• Southern Health Foundation Trust
• Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
• University Hospital Southampton
• Solent NHS Trust
• South Central Ambulance Service
• Isle of Wight NHS Trust
• Hampshire Hospitals
  Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
  Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
  Job Description
  Portsmouth Radiotherapy department covers a wide catchment area, treating patients form Portsmouth, Southampton, West Sussex, and the Isle of Wight. As well as the daily routine of scanning, planning and treating patients, we also offer an out of hours service at the weekends.
  With recent expansion in our Clinical Trials portfolio and advanced radiotherapy techniques, we are expanding our permanent workforce within the Pre-Treatment area. We are looking for a proactive, Senior therapeutic radiographer to join our team who is keen to progress in their career and support the implementation of SimRT, within CT. This post also comes with enhanced practice funding to support professional development.
  We have four TrueBeam 3.0 linear accelerators which include the advanced IGRT imaging such as online 4D CBCT, iCBCT and triggered imaging. We have 6DOF couches in use for Head and neck , upper GI and Lung SABR patients, alongside abdomen compression immobilisation. We have a wide-bore Siemens GOSIM CT scanner, Brachytherapy, orthovoltage and on-treatment review services. We link all of our department together using ARIA V15.L6 and are a paperless department.
  We have recently increased our SABR offering for oligometastases and prostate cancer via the PACE Nodes trial. In dosimetry, we have recently moved to Raystation planning system and routinely use AI auto-contouring software to make planning more efficient.
  The team at PHU are committed to your development, sending representation to all the major conferences and supporting academic study in order to progress in your career. We have well established monthly clinical supervision at all levels and more recently have created a radiographer staff committee. The committee has helped drive the implementation of flexible working across the whole department where we now offer 7.5 hr or 9.5 hr shifts over 3/4/5 days per week. Similarly, the team have eliminated the Covid backlog and are routinely achieving the 31 day cancer standard for or patients.
  We have 3 trained consultant radiographers in Breast/urology/palliative and are actively developing new ACP opportunities. we have several apprentice radiographer undergraduate and postgraduate roles in post and have recently invested in enhances practice roles supporting progression from graduate al the way to consultant radiographer or lead radiographer.
  You will find a motivated, enthusiastic and forward thinking department, who won the Society of Radiographers Regional South East Team of the year 2023.

JOB SUMMARY

• To produce high quality radiotherapy planning scans and immobilisation.
• To be actively involved with the development of Radiotherapy Services.
• To take responsibility for the organisation of the daily radiotherapy workload and staff, supporting the pre-treatment lead radiographer.
• To justify radiation exposures, undertake patient pre-assessment checks, cannulate and administer contrast.
• To supervise students and junior staff on the unit and to take an active part in their clinical training.
• To participate in the departmental shift and on call system between hours of 07:00-20:00, 7 days a week.
• Be accountable for own professional actions and limitations within own scope of practice.
• Abide by HCPC code of conduct and maintain HCPC registration.
  To discuss this post or other opportunities please contact steve.murphy@porthosp.nhs.uk
  For more information, please refer to the Job Description
  Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc Therapeutic Radiography or equivalent
• HCPC registration to practice as a Therapeutic Radiographer
• Post-graduate education (or be willing to take part in Level 7 education)

EXPERIENCE

• Appropriate level of post qualification experience, working across both treatment and pre-treatment areas, using a range of modern equipment
• Experience of working in pre-treatment and with a range of radiotherapy treatment techniques.
• Working within the NHS environment as a Therapeutic Radiographer

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Effective at working independently and within a team
• Ability to deal with emotive and confrontational situations using conflict resolution skills
• Ability to deal with and respond to interruptions in the working environment
• Strong personal resilience and ability to act appropriately in stressful and/or emotive situations
• Demonstrable competency in the use of all aspects of complex radiotherapy treatment and planning equipment
• Ability to successfully problem-solve and trouble-shoot treatment and planning related patient setup issues
• Ability to understand own limitations and when to ask for help
• Demonstrable skills in teaching and supervising student radiographers
• Understand the benefits of and how to work within an ISO9001:2015 quality system
• Awareness of national cancer agenda and how it relates to own practice
• Current knowledge of developments in radiotherapy practice
• Evidence of CPD
  Additional Information
  For more detailed information and pictures of our department , please see the “PHU Radiotherapy Department Brochure” https://c.smartrecruiters.com/sr-company-attachments-prod-aws-dc5/641d594add179b367771845d/a2c4984f-11d3-4c64-8391-e6666e743577?r=s3-eu-central-1
  The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
  We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs

Please refer the Job description for details