Specialised Therapeutic Radiographer - Clinical Educator

at  The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has been created for a radiotherapy educator experienced in Digital Clinical Placement Design and Delivery and with proven education and coaching experience to join the team. This position is funded through a digital clinical placement tariff and therefore the focus on the role is to continue to support digital clinical placement delivery, scalability, and sustainability.
The post holder will be directly involved in digital clinical placement delivery for pre and post registration learners within Therapeutic Radiographer and wider professional groups. As a specialist in radiotherapy, they will also provide cover to the wider radiotherapy education team. Thus, providing a robust skill mix and infra-structure as clinical placement transformation in digital teaching and learning expands alongside the NHS Education and Workforce priorities.
To express your interest please submit 250 words evidencing your experience in digital clinical placement education and coaching frameworks, along with your experience in radiotherapy education at all levels (as per outlined by the national ACCeND) oncology career framework.
Expressions of interest to be submitted to Alison Sanneh- Digital Clinical Placement Lead.
Alison.sanneh@nhs.net
Support for Digital Clinical Placement project design and delivery of Digital Clinical Placements across the Integrated Care Systems, including National Programmes.
Maintaining and maturing a leadership coaching model to create and sustain a psychological safe learning and working environment in clinical placement practise (virtual and on site)
Maintain learner safety- including risk assessment, progression and assessment, placement completion and tariff related activity in line with the NHS Education Contract.
Deliver Radiotherapy Education activity supported by the core education leadership teams, in line with highly specialised radiotherapy education, in line with relevant legislation, IR(ME)R, MHRA and Care quality commission standards.
Influence radiotherapy education frameworks, including risk and risk mitigation to ensure high levels of training standards that provide good care and clinical outcomes for patients.
Support, where required pre-registration and post registration radiotherapy related training, including inductions, preceptorship, progression, support, and supervision, ensuring inclusivity.
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.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
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.
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 practice. 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.
Analytical & Judgemental Skills
As a member of the education team in the radiotherapy service, the postholder 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.
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.
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.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care
The post-holder will be rostered to undertake highly specialist clinical
technical imaging or treatment services and will provide education advice
on these services to students and other learners and to more junior
qualified colleagues.
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.
Responsibility for Financial & Physical Resources
The post-holder will be responsible for the safe use of expensive or highly
complex equipment.
Responsibility for Human Resources
The post-holder will be responsible for highly specialist teaching to pr eand
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.
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.
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.
Freedom to Act
Expected results and outcomes will be defined by the Principle
Radiographer for Clinical Education but the post holder will be expected
to apply best practice to achieve these results. Guidance may be
provided by the Principle Radiographer, peers or external reference
points including the academic staff of the partner universities.
This job description is not exhaustive and will be reviewed periodically to
consider changes and developments in service requirements. Any changes will be discussed fully with the post-holder

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