Details

• Date posted: 23 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 357-LN-567-26-A
• Job locations: Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln, LN2 5QY, United Kingdom

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Communication and Relationship Skills

• Able to communicate complex information effectively with colleagues in pressured situations, such as equipment failure or breakdowns.
• Able to work as part of a team and foster good working relationships with colleagues and suppliers.
• Responsible for ensuring effective communications within their service and across professional boundaries, overcoming barriers to understanding.

Analytical and Judgemental Skills

• Perform patient specific QA measurements, using a range of equipment and software, and analyse and advise on clinical suitability. Analyse and interpret the results. To include understanding of when escalation to an MPE is appropriate.
• Analyse quality assurance and commissioning data related to external beam and brachytherapy treatment machines, CT scanners and associated equipment. Exercise judgement on when tolerances are exceeded, escalating as appropriate.
• Analyse and interpret patient dosimetric calculations, assessments or measurements, e.g., electron cut-out factors, and investigate deviations from the required dose.
• Advise on the acceptability of individual dose assessments, compare options and suggest treatment modifications to meet clinical tolerances.
• Understand and apply relevant legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines, e.g. IRR, IR(ME)R, ISO 9001, Data Protection Act, Caldicott and other relevant BSI and ISO standards, professional and regulatory body reports and guidelines.

Planning and Organisational Skills

• Able to plan work required for commissioning new equipment within agreed time frames, often forming part of a wider plan, and involving multiple staff groups.
• Understands the radiotherapy pathway and systems, enabling the effective management and support of clinical workflows.

Responsibilities for patient/client care

• Provide specialist clinical technical services within Radiotherapy Physics, assisting in the dosimetry, QA and maintenance of radiotherapy treatment machines and associated equipment, as well as in routine radiotherapy treatment planning as required; this work requires familiarity with the Radiotherapy Physics Quality Assurance procedures and national guidelines.
• Develop and maintain specialist knowledge in Radiotherapy Physics.
• Take the lead in particular projects (under supervision) intended to provide service development and improvement, achieved particularly through hardware and software developments.
• Propose and play a part in the development of clinical and scientific procedures and work instructions to implement changes in clinical or scientific practice under the service quality management system.
• Responsible for safe use of equipment by other staff members.

Responsibility for human resources (including training)

• Participate in the teaching, training and supervision of staff, students and other trainees, as required. This may include the preparation and giving of lectures on areas of Radiotherapy Physics to Scientific, Technical, Clinical, nursing and ancillary staff.
• Able to plan workload for self and junior colleagues to ensure machine QA is completed within maintenance window, or dosimetry equipment is calibrated within appropriate time frame.
• Keep careful records of all work performed and maintain department records as required.
• Prepare reports, analyse and present scientific data when needed.
• Participate in the development and introduction of new treatment technologies, techniques and dosimetry.

Freedom to Act

• Work independently, balancing the demands of routine planning, QA and dosimetry work, within clearly defined occupational policies with developmental projects.
• Participate in wider radiotherapy activities, undertaking projects and tasks in accordance with agreed priorities and strategies.

Physical Effort

• Must be able to frequently sit in a restricted position for several long periods during a work session.
• Able to move complex equipment, sometimes in confined spaces, and to install or remove delicate hardware components, taking appropriate anti-static precautions.
• Able to lift medium/heavy weights on occasion (e.g. large monitor screens, Lead shielding blocks), attach scanning equipment to treatment machines, move large water reservoirs etc. Safe systems of work are imposed to minimise risk of injury.

Mental Effort

• Frequent requirement for concentration and is able to respond appropriately when subject to frequent unpredictable working patterns (e.g. when interrupted to provide urgent advice on the processing of data for a particular patient or treatment machine) or to meet service requirements, e.g., QA sessions.
• Able to manage time flexibly to meet the requirements of the service.
• Able to concentrate frequently and for prolonged periods (e.g. carrying out computer software development, troubleshooting, installation and testing or a sequence of Quality Assurance measurements) and processing measured beam data for the treatment planning system, commissioning measurements and radiation dosimetry.

Emotional Effort

• Able to deal with stressful circumstances (e.g. working to restore clinical systems to working order when patients and staff activity has been disrupted)

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics 1st or 2.1 class or an appropriate relevant science or equivalent
• M.Sc. in Medical Physics or equivalent
• Professional registration as a Clinical Scientist with Health and Care Professions Council

Desirable

• Member of an appropriate professional body

Skills

Essential

• Strong abilities in solving scientific, mathematical and algorithmic problems
• Specialist skills in Radiotherapy Physics
• Effective written and oral communication skills

Knowledge

Essential

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of Radiotherapy Physics and peripheral knowledge of other areas within Medical Physics
• Understanding of patient and staff risks arising from equipment or process failure and staff error, with respect to Radiotherapy. Able to exercise judgement on complex facts or situations requiring urgent interpretation and analysis, followed by a comparison of the possible options for action
• Significant understanding of relevant legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines relevant to Radiotherapy e.g. IRR, IRMER, Advancing Safer Radiotherapy
• Specialist knowledge of a wide range of clinical radiotherapy techniques and work practices with an understanding of the clinical data flow patterns and processing used by the relevant professionals in Radiotherapy
• Good understanding of legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines relevant to Radiotherapy Physics practice in general e.g. IRR, IRMER, ISO 9001
• Manual dexterity and understanding to handle delicate electronic instruments and components

Specialist attributes

Essential