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Radiotherapy Physics – Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The radiotherapy physics service at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge provides support to the hospital’s radiotherapy service. The service treats approximately 4000 courses of radiotherapy per year using 8 linear accelerators, HDR brachytherapy, LDR brachytherapy, and orthovoltage. We routinely treat using VMAT, SABR, SRS, IGRT and plan to implement SGRT in the next 12 months. The successful trainee will join a team of over 40 scientific and technical staff, including two radiotherapy trainees who will be in years two and three of STP. Trainees will undertake rotational placements in the East Anglia region, some of which may be at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, or other hospitals in our training consortium (Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust), with the radiotherapy rotation being hosted at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The MSc course is delivered at Kings College London.
Radiotherapy Physics – East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
The Radiotherapy Physics service at ESNEFT provides scientific and technical support to the Radiotherapy Service which delivers treatments to over 3000 patients a year on the Ipswich and Colchester Hospital sites. Training within radiotherapy will be hands on and include undertaking quality control measurements on our linear accelerators and other treatment machines and creating radiotherapy treatment plans. It will provide exciting opportunities to be involved with a number of development projects as well as contributing to patient care. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to undertake training at both the Ipswich and Colchester sites, with rotational placements also taking place within the trust and at other trusts across East Anglia. You will be supported by a large and friendly team of healthcare scientists and practitioners, as well as other trainees across the region. The MSc Course will be based at King’s College London and funding is available to attend workshops or conferences to supplement your studies. ESNEFT’s philosophy is “Time Matters” for all our patients and staff; this ensures that patients have the best experience and that you have time to make the most of your skills.
Radiotherapy Physics – Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
The Queen’s Centre provides outstanding rotations in Radiotherapy, Nuclear medicine, Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology. We are a well-equipped centre with six linear accelerators (4x Truebeam and 2x Halcyon), Flexitron Brachytherapy, Xstrahl Superficial, Papillion Contact Radiotherapy and two Siemens CT scanners. We are a modern and forward thinking department with history of training on the STP programme. Being a medium sized centre, we are able to provide training in all areas of radiotherapy. The advantage of joining a centre of our size is that we are sufficiently resourced to provide a balanced mix of direct clinical work and development. Throughout your training, you will receive support to become an integral part of the clinical team and actively contribute to the service. Aside from the outstanding work environment with excellent staff retention Hull offers a plethora of delights from social, geological to cultural. We are also nestled between the enchanting Yorkshire wolds on one side and the magnetic east coast on the other. All this in one of the cheapest places to live in the UK.
Radiotherapy Physics – Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
If you enjoy a challenge, are keen to further your technical skills and be instrumental in providing ‘Excellent care with compassion’ then join our friendly, multidisciplinary team at Rosemere Cancer Centre and make a difference. We have an opportunity to join a team of 12 dosimetrists, 17 clinical scientists, 7 engineers and a quality manager. In addition to this we also currently have 3 STP trainees and 2 apprentice engineers in our team.
Main duties of the job
You will be based within the radiotherapy physics department at Preston but, during your 3 years, will travel to other hospital sites in the North West to complete all the required aspects of your STP training. During your training you will also travel to the University of Liverpool to complete an MSc in Medical Physics.
Working for your organisation
Rosemere Cancer Centre is on the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Royal Preston Hospital site and provides an external beam radiotherapy service for the adult population of Lancashire and South Cumbria (1.6 million population). The centre has: Seven clinical Elekta linacs, all with CBCT, and many with flattening filter free treatment capability and equipped with Response ABC system; Two dedicated Philips Big Bore CT scanners; Vision RT surface guided technology in routine clinical use; MOSAIQ® and SYNERGISTIQ™.
Treatment planning and virtual simulation is conducted on Pinnacle throughout the department. Some treatment planning is also being carried out on Raystation. Rosemere is currently commissioned to provide SABR for primary lung tumours and oligometasteses (non-spine and spine, lung and liver) in addition to intracranial SRS. Exciting developments include: Roll out use of Vision RT surface guided technology for site other than breast. System already in use for breast and thorax patients; Commissioning of SABR for adrenal metastases; Roll out of use of AI for contouring; Evaluation of PerFraction for independent dose check of treatment plans.
Radiotherapy Physics – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is an established training centre having been training supernumerary trainees since 1992, and having STP trainees since the scheme started in 2011. The emphasis on being a large training centre means there are a number of alumni from Leeds working in the department and involved with the training of the new trainees. Trainees are reimbursed for travel and accommodation whilst at academic sites, often with these being booked by the secretarial staff to reduce the burden on trainees. There are shuttle buses between the hospitals in Leeds which are free for all employees to use helping to travel between the sites used for rotations. Trainees are normally based at St James University Hospital or Leeds General Infirmary. Due to the number of trainees we have, there is an active social group to engage with outside of your own specialism. RT and NM rotations are based at SJUH, DR&RP and INIR rotations are based at LGI.
Radiotherapy Physics – Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people. Our newly formed Trust, comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend, is determined to provide the best health services for its local population. We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation working in the best interests of the people we serve. The Radiotherapy Department of Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is based at Southend Hospital and is equipped with four matched, fully loaded Elekta Versa HD Linear Accelerators, a Canon CT scanner and Monaco TPS to support planning of external beam treatments. We have also recently purchased a Varian Ethos along with Eclipse V18.0 TPS which are soon to be installed and commissioned. Treatment workflows are paper lite and managed using Mosaiq V2.83. Our linear accelerators are multimodality, including FFF, 6DOF and have IGRT capability. At Southend, we also have a dynamic brachytherapy service treating around 200 patients per year which includes prostates, gynaecological and skin cancers. This is delivered in a purpose-built brachytherapy theatre suite within the department. Brachytherapy planning is performed with Oncentra Brachy Treatment Planning system and treated using a Flexitron HDR unit. The successful trainees will undertake rotational placements in the East Anglia region, some of which may be at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, or other hospitals in our training consortium (Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, Addenbrooke’s Hospital). The academic component of the training will be based at King’s College London.
Radiotherapy Physics – Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
As a trainee in the Radiotherapy Physics department at NNUH, you will work with a team of physicists, technicians, IT and admin staff to support the radiotherapy service. IMRT, VMAT, SABR and conformal treatments are planned and delivered on 5 TrueBeam Linear accelerators. A 6th Truebeam is due to be installed in early 2024. The Department has a Managed Services Contract with Medipass to provide a comprehensive, state of the art radiotherapy service to the people of Norfolk. As well as the Linear accelerators, the department benefits from two dedicated CT scanners, with one being replaced in 2024. NNUH was the first site in the world to install a Bravos HDR machine in 2018 and we provide an active brachytherapy service. We operate a superficial treatment service as well as employing FFF and electrons across the fleet of linacs. We continually develop the service and in 2024 will be installing Surface Guided Radiotherapy on all our Linear accelerators. There is an opportunity for the trainee to be involved in the many development projects and equipment commissioning which is always ongoing in the department. The trainee will have the opportunity to train in all areas of radiotherapy physics from Treatment planning, Brachytherapy and QA/Calibration of all the equipment. Being part of the East Anglian region training consortium, provides the opportunity to train in other hospitals and medical physics specialties in the region. This is supported by an MSc course delivered by Kings College London. For more information contact sarah.betts@nnuh.nhs.uk (Lead Clinical Scientist for External Beam Planning and Training) or william.holmes-smith@nnuh.nhs.uk (Head of Radiotherapy Physics).
Radiotherapy Physics – Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Radiotherapy Physics – Northern Training Consortium (Middlesborough)
The NTC is a well-established training consortium of 8 Trusts in the North East and North Cumbria, working together to deliver high quality training in the Physical Sciences. We currently have 23 STP trainees in the region, an experienced workplace training team including a dedicated training co-ordinator, and a trainee network providing peer support. The NTC has a strong record of keeping STP trainees in the region once qualified. This Radiotherapy Physics post will be mainly based at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, but the appointee will be expected to travel within the NTC region for some year 1 rotations.
Radiotherapy Physics – Northern Training Consortium (Newcastle/Carlisle)
The NTC is a well-established training consortium of 8 Trusts in the North East and North Cumbria, working together to deliver high quality training in the Physical Sciences. We currently have 23 STP trainees in the region, an experienced workplace training team including a dedicated training co-ordinator, and a trainee network providing peer support. The NTC has a strong record of keeping STP trainees in the region once qualified. This Radiotherapy Physics post is expected to be based at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) in Newcastle upon Tyne, although candidates could request to be based at NCCC North Cumbria (NCCCNC) in Carlisle if preferred. The appointee will be expected to travel within the NTC region for some year 1 rotations.
Radiotherapy Physics – Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
NUH has two main campuses across the city of Nottingham namely QMC and City Hospital. Rotations will be based at both sites, there is a frequent bus service between the two, of 25 minute journey time, free to staff. The Radiotherapy Physics specialism training will be based at City Hospital Campus.
Radiotherapy Physics – Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Radiotherapy Physics – Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the biggest provider of healthcare services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Our three main sites are Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro, St Michael’s Hospital Hayle and West Cornwall Hospital Penzance. The Radiotherapy Centre at RCHT is equipped with 2 Varian TrueBeam Linacs (due for replacement in 2026/27), an Xstrahl Superficial treatment machine, a Philips wide-bore CT scanner and Aria OMS. Treatment is planned on Pinnacle, due to be replaced in the next 1-2 years by the RayStation Treatment Planning System. The department provides the latest techniques for a variety of treatments, and we have an active trials participation portfolio. The brachytherapy portion of the radiotherapy specialism will be hosted at University Hospitals Plymouth. The non-ionising rotation will be hosted across the Southwest Training Consortium offering trainees the opportunity to visit other centres and build connections within the Southwest. For all training external to the main site travel and accommodation costs will be covered. We will provide a supportive working environment for your training to help you realise your full potential and develop the skills to become an outstanding healthcare scientist. Enjoy an outstanding quality of life in a place that offers surfing beaches and fishing harbours to beautiful countryside and historic towns. With clean air, plenty of opportunities for outdoor activities it is the ideal place for active people and families and for you to develop your own career.
Radiotherapy Physics – Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
This post will be based at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Exeter is a vibrant city, close to the natural beauty of Devon’s sandy beaches and rugged moorland. It’s the perfect base for enjoying all the South West has to offer, whilst still being well connected to the rest of the country. We are a friendly and sociable team that strive to provide a welcoming and supportive environment for trainees. Our trainee numbers have been growing over the last few years, and there is a strong network of trainees in the department, the Trust and the wider region. This provides opportunities for learning, support, and socialising throughout your training. Additionally, we collaborate with other centres in the South West to give you the full breadth of learning experiences. Whether you were born and raised in the South West, or fancy a change of scenery, we believe you will fall in love with Devon and thrive whilst training here.
Radiotherapy Physics – Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
This STP post is one of a number that will be based in Medical Physics and Scientific Computing at The Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. You will join a network of STP trainees hosted across a number of specialisms so will benefit from great peer support and supervision. For rotations, travel to other sites for testing of equipment may be necessary. In specialism attendance at the Radiotherapy Satellite site in East Surrey Hospital, Redhill.
Radiotherapy Physics – Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Radiotherapy training is based at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Approximately 30 weeks will be based at the Royal Stoke University Hospital for non-radiotherapy and brachytherapy training.
Radiotherapy Physics – The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
The post is primarily based at The Christie in Manchester. Approximately 5 weeks of the first year rotations will be based at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Some travel to other hospitals in the region may be required as part of first year rotations, for which transport or expenses will be provided.
Radiotherapy Physics – The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading providers of non-surgical cancer treatment, caring for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire. Our flagship specialist cancer hospital in Liverpool opened in June 2020, supported by our hospital on the Clatterbridge Health Park in Wirral providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care, and our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree Hospital site. Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside’s district hospitals, we are able to deliver a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies. We also deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home and Work service; are the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers and host the region’s Teenage and Young Adult Unit, (supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust). Working with leading experts from The University of Liverpool and the Cancer Research UK Liverpool Cancer Trials Unit we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments than ever before. The radiotherapy department has ten Varian TrueBEAM linacs, two XStrahl superficial units, a Papillon unit for contact radiotherapy, a HDR brachytherapy service and a low-energy proton beam therapy service for treating eye cancers. Training and development will take place within the physics department at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust based at the Liverpool hospital and supported by training at Clatterbridge Health Park in Wirral and Aintree Hospital. Trainees also undertake the complementary academic master’s programme at the University of Liverpool. The physics department at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is committed in providing a high quality training experience to Trainee Healthcare Scientists. A designated Training Officer supports each Trainee Healthcare Scientists in their progression through the training programme, ensuring trainees complete the learning outcomes of the programme and gain the clinical experience required to become a registered Clinical Scientist.
Radiotherapy Physics – University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
There may be a small amount of travel to other sites required and significant amounts of time spent at KCL for MSc. We are seeking an enthusiastic physicist to join the Medical Physics team at University Hospital Southampton (UHS) NHS Foundation Trust. UHS is one of the biggest employers in the region with over 10,000 staff and a strong healthcare science workforce and clinical-academic integration with the University of Southampton. The Radiotherapy Physics Group provides physics support to the clinical services at both Southampton and Basingstoke sites (covering 7 linacs and their associated additional hardware and software systems, a superficial unit, an HDR brachytherapy system and a Mobetron intraoperative radiotherapy system) and collaborate closely with many different staff groups contributing to Cancer Care. The department delivers high quality training across a broad range of training schemes and has a 100% success rate for STP trainees successful completion. This post is an excellent training opportunity for a motivated physicist to specialise in radiotherapy physics in a large regional hospital.
Radiotherapy Physics – University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
We are offering an exciting training opportunity for an ambitious and dedicated person looking to start their Healthcare Science Career by training in a large teaching hospital: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this. Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to: Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives. UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their ‘whole self’ to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work. University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital. We look forward to welcoming you to our team!
Our Radiotherapy Physics team has around 50 scientific and technical staff working in conjunction with clinical colleagues to provide approximately 4,500 new patients per year with World Class radiotherapy treatments. We utilise 6 Elekta Versa Llinar accelerators with Flattening Filter Free (FFF) functionality, a Tomotherapy HD, a Radixact unit with kVCT imaging, and a Cyberknife unit. We also have two wide-bore CT scanners, a dedicated brachytherapy suite and an XStrahl orthovoltage system. Our new equipment programme means an on-site MRI scanner and a second Radixact will be installed soon.
The radiotherapy rotation and specialism training will be based at the Cancer Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Heritage Building) in Birmingham. Other rotations will be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and RRPPS (the Radiation Protection Service) in Kings Norton, Birmingham. RRPPS supports hospitals and external customers throughout the West Midlands and beyond. This means some travel around the region will be required during rotations here, but it is often possible to arrange lifts with supervising staff.
Radiotherapy Physics – University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist radiotherapy training in Bristol will be at the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre (BHOC)
We have 5 Elekta Agility Head linacs with onboard imaging, Varian HDR brachytherapy (Prostate, Gynae, Oesophagus, Skin), Gammaknife, Molecular RT, 2 Philips Wide Bore CT’s, Raystation TPS, Clarity Ultrasound and surface guided RT, as well as a 3D printer.
We also provide a dosimetry service to the Elekta linear accelerator at Bristol Vet Specialists veterinary hospital in Avonmouth.
Rotations will all be based in UHBW, at either the Bristol Royal Infirmary, St Michaels Hospital or BHOC. There may be some visits to other locations in the South West.
The academic component is taught at Liverpool University.
Bristol is wonderful place to live. There are lots of things to do and we have easy access to the coast and countryside, and easy transport links to South Wales, London, and the North. We are a very friendly and sociable department.
Radiotherapy Physics – University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Radiotherapy has a satellite centre at Dorset County Hospital. We visit this about once a month. University lectures are done in Liverpool. Non ionising imaging rotation is done across the South West region.
Radiotherapy Physics – University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Here at UHNM you will be welcomed into the Medical Physics team which includes 21 clinical scientists who provide cover across the four specialisms. All four rotations will be at the Royal Stoke site with your university placement at Liverpool. As a department we have been successfully training scientists since the last century and you will follow in the steps of and benefit from the support of the existing second and third year trainees. In the past we have been fortunate to offer some of our trainees a permanent position; the latest of which will be starting with us after qualifying in 2023. Below is a brief description of the departments you will be working in. The Diagnostic Radiology Physics department provides support and advice for several busy Hospital Trusts including The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust. The department undertakes routine testing of wide range X-ray equipment including CT scanners, Mammography equipment and General X-ray units to ensure their performance meets current national guidelines, in accordance with current UK Legislation. In addition the department provides advice with regards X-ray room design as well as ensuring radiation doses to staff, patients and members of the public remain appropriate. The nuclear medicine department at Royal Stoke University Hospital has three gamma cameras, a PET scanner and performs over 100 radionuclide therapies per year. We have commissioned two new state-of-the-art SPECT-CT systems in 2023 and will be commissioning a new PET-CT system this year. The SPECT-CT systems offer our patients 3-D quantification of radiotracer uptake which will be especially helpful when expanding our radionuclide therapy service. The Radiotherapy department is a Varian site consisting of two Halcyons, two Truebeams, a Gammamed HDR unit, an Xstrahl unit, a Siemens RT go Sim CT scanner and Ecilpse treatment planning system. We are involved with several radiotherapy trials, and provide SABR, VMAT, IMRT, conformal, 4DCT and DIBH treatment techniques with 2d kV and MV imaging and 3d kV and MV CBCT imaging. We are in the process of procuring surface guided radiation therapy. We also provide an iodine ablation service and a brachytherapy needle service. The MRI and Ultrasound Physics team is a small team of scientists who are dedicated to improving patient care using non-ionising imaging. We support a busy MRI department, operating 7 MRI scanners, as well as providing support to other local Trusts. Non-ionising imaging is a rapidly growing field, due to the increasing demand and complexity of scans. We therefore have an urgent need to train more scientists in this area. We are passionate about providing the highest quality training in areas such as QA, safety and image optimisation. At UHNM the physics team work closely with the clinical radiology team, meaning that even as a trainee you will directly see how your work impacts patient care.
Radiotherapy Physics – Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Majority of first year rotations will be based in Birmingham. Vast majority of second and third year radiotherapy specialism will be based in Worcester. Some travel in the West Midlands in second and third year may be required.