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We are pleased to offer an excellent opportunity to join our friendly and forward‑thinking radiotherapy physics team at North Middlesex Hospital in North London. The role is as a Band 6 Treatment Planning Dosimetrist.

You will join a team of dosimetrists responsible for all complex radiotherapy treatment planning, comprising a high proportion of VMAT and including SABR for both primary cancer and oligometastatic disease. We run on a Varian platform, with Eclipse TPS for planning and TrueBeam and Halcyon for treatment delivery.

The team includes 10 clinical scientists, 7 dosimetrists (including this post), and 6 engineering and technical staff, creating a collaborative and well-supported working environment.

Flexible working is supported across the Trust, with a hybrid model combining on-site and remote working.

The post-holder is responsible for:

• Designing and producing patient-specific, radiotherapy treatment plans and dose calculations. Evaluating alternative treatment planning options and strategies in order to maximise the dose to the target volume whilst minimising the dose to critical patient organs.
• Providing specialist clinical and technical advice and support on radiotherapy treatment planning issues to consultants, specialist registrars, clinical scientists and radiographers.
• Developing new and existing treatment planning techniques in conjunction with the clinical scientists, planning radiographers and consultant medical staff.
• Performing regular quality assurance on the treatment planning systems.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

Therapy Services has a high profile within the Trust, being firmly committed to quality improvement, audit, service evaluation and improvement. We undertake yearly presentations of our achievements for the year; undertaking PDSA and QI projects to ensure we are delivering the most effective, safe and high quality service.

For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities.