The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
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Imaging with non-Ionising Radiation – The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Imaging with Non-Ionising Radiation post, your training will be split approx 60% MRI, 30% Ultrasound and 10% other modalities. The post will be based at CCC in Liverpool City Centre and include occasional training in our satellite location at CCC Wirral, and other sites across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology – The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
This post is for 1x STP direct-entry trainee specialising in Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology. The trainee would be predominantly based at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool (CCCL), but will also be expected to travel to the Wirral site as required. The Wirral site can be reached from CCCL by a 30 minute drive, or a short train journey and a bus or walk from Spital rail station. The hosting department currently supports 5 CT, 2 PET/CT, 2 fluoroscopy suites, a mobile C-arm, a mobile x-ray set, 3 planar x-ray rooms, 1 SPECT/CT, and a Radium therapy service. The ‘ionising imaging physics’ team of 5 also has a non-ionising counterpart of 3 (who will be also looking to recruit a trainee in 2024), and is part of a larger physics team comprising roughly 40 radiotherapy physics colleagues including more than 10 radiotherapy specialist STP trainees at any one time.
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.