Team Leader Radiotherapy Radiographer

at  Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Operational coordinator to join our team. The Trust is delighted to invite applications from enthusiastic, forward-thinking radiographers with a keen interest in delivering radiotherapy services and a passion for team working and service development. We have a fantastic team approach, and love to develop all of our staff and want you to achieve and grow your potential.
We have three planning CT scanners, an exceptional Brachytherapy service which provides HDR, LDR and Papillon kV contact treatment; as well as an Xstrahl superficial machine.
Our Brachytherapy service currently sees about 130 cervix and endometrium patients and 25 HDR prostate patients a year. We also treat oesophagus, rectal cancer and are in the process of introducing skin and biliary HDR within the next financial year. We are also one of the five centres in the UK that has a Papillon machine to treat early rectal cancer.
Our main site and brachytherapy service is based at the Royal Surrey Hospital, Guildford and our satellite centre is based at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill. Guildford gives easy access to the beautiful North & South Downs Way, is an hour from the coast and has great transport links to the surrounding counties of Berkshire, Hampshire and Sussex. The city offers cultural diversity, is home to the University of Surrey and it is great place to reside and explore.
As an operational coordinator working as part of the Brachytherapy team, you will be under the supervision of the Operational Managers.
You will be responsible for assisting in the operational coordination of all staff within the radiotherapy department to ensure a safe service delivery. It is expected the post holder will work collaboratively with the other coordinators in order to provide satisfactory staffing with correct skill mix across the whole of the service keeping communication open to line management so all managers are up to date with current situations. You will regularly participate in all aspects of radiotherapy activities and your role will focus on operational coordination.
The post holder will provide information, education, practical and emotional support to patients and their carers during their radiotherapy, and will support staff health and wellbeing.
The St Luke’s Radiotherapy Department is based at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford and operates a satellite service from the East Surrey Hospital in Redhill.
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn’t the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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The purpose of this role is to undertake radiotherapy interventions at a team leader level to the highest professional and technical standards, working with Medical, Radiographic, Physics and Administrative colleagues, within the Radiotherapy team and the wider Trust theatre team.
The Royal Surrey Cancer Centre is focused on providing excellent patient pathways and patient-centred care. We strive to continuously evolve to reflect the technical advances within Radiotherapy. To that end, we have recently completed the replacement of two of our Varian TrueBeams with a Varian ETHOS and a Varian Halcyon at our satellite centre. These units are the first in the NHS for in-bore SGRT and we are scheduled to be the first Centre to implement Hypersight later this year. Surface guided radiotherapy system installation will further improve the accuracy of treatment and present the opportunity for tattoo-less radiotherapy.
Our patients benefit from access to two ETHOS units, one Halcyon and four TrueBeams across our two radiotherapy centres.

Key to this role will be running the day to day running of the Brachytherapy service. This includes:

• operational coordination of all staff to ensure a safe service delivery.
• working collaboratively with the other coordinators in order to provide satisfactory staffing with correct skill mix across the whole of the service keeping communication open to line management so all managers are up to date with current situations.
• Responsibility for the timely review of Brachytherapy procedures and policy documents and be investigating manager for Brachytherapy incidents reporting to Operational Managers and Clinical Governance team.
• managing patient pathways
• Deputising for the Operational Manager when required

As a MacMillan adopted department, you will have access to a wide range of support for both patients and opportunities for your own continuous professional development.
We have on-going departmental, NCRN and commercial clinical trial activity with many trials currently open to recruitment and further ones in development.
We look forward to meeting with should you feel that you would like to become part of our Royal Surrey Cancer Centre team.
For more information or to arrange an informal visit, you can reach us on 01483 571122 Ext 4204 and ask to speak with Naomi Lockyer or e-mail naomi.lockyer@nhs.net

• operational coordination of all staff to ensure a safe service delivery.
• working collaboratively with the other coordinators in order to provide satisfactory staffing with correct skill mix across the whole of the service keeping communication open to line management so all managers are up to date with current situations.
• Responsibility for the timely review of Brachytherapy procedures and policy documents and be investigating manager for Brachytherapy incidents reporting to Operational Managers and Clinical Governance team.
• managing patient pathways
• Deputising for the Operational Manager when require