Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Specialty
Region
Audiology – Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Main base for both Audiology and specialist rotations at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Occasional travel to Cromer Hospital and community clinic at Meridien Business Park may be required towards the end of training; travel costs are reimbursed.
Large service providing complex adult rehabilitation (adults with routine age-related hearing loss are seen by community providers under the Any Qualified Provider scheme), hearing therapy, paediatric assessment and rehabilitation, vestibular assessment and rehabilitation and bone conduction hearing implants.
Cardiac Science – Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
One training placement will be at the Royal Papworth Hospital.
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).