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Radiotherapy Clinical Educator
The Christie NHS FT
The closing date is 26 August 2026
Job Summary
An exciting position is offered to a Therapeutic Radiographer with a proven and extensive portfolio in clinical education. A full-time permanent position and a full-time 12-months fixed term position is available. The successful post holder will be part of a team of innovative clinical educators, working at pace to respond to training and education in the radiotherapy technical and wider systems of care setting. The post holder will support learners at every level.
The post holder will follow systems and processes already in place for new staff training (inductions) and the development of education frameworks and quality assurance within the service. The work will be flexible, with opportunities when it suits the service, to work from home.
The post holder will cover wider aspects of radiotherapy education, including pre-registration and post registration development. They will facilitate training requirements set out in the services Learning Needs Analysis. The post holder will also support pre-registration learning experience, in order to address future workforce supply. The post holder will align the delivery of their work with Health Education England quality indicators for effective learning environments.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to:
- Support learners at every level; including individuals with aspirations to join NHS careers
- Ensure learners are socialised effectively, cultivating a safe and open learning environment
- Support learners through mentorship, supervision, clinical supervision, preceptorship and coaching
- Identify and respond to educational learning needs across a range of department, working with Subject Matter Experts to create high quality learning resources and associated competencies
- Review education material, learning from incident, to maintain teaching quality and be responsive to organizational learning
- Design and deliver teaching material in forms of classroom learning, conferences and publications
- Monitor and promote learner wellbeing - involvement in risk assessments, reasonable adjustment, managing absence
- Maintain training records and data base
About Us
The radiotherapy education team consists of a group of highly experienced clinical educationalist, who lead projects at a local and national level. The team is successful in securing awards that generate income to invest directly in workforce education, with then impact significantly on patient clinical outcomes. Working with multiple agencies, the team is privileged to shape curriculums to inform learning for our future workforce. This role should appeal to an individual who is highly motivated, hardworking, resilient and passionate about people. You should want to make a difference to patients, through workforce education and be willing to adapt and deliver in a highly demanding work environment.
The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year.
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Details
Date posted: 12 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year Pro rata Per Annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 413-109197-CNS-LM
Job locations:
RT Cross Site Education - E00080
Manchester
M20 4BX
United Kingdom
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Communication & Relationship Skills
The post holder will provide and receive highly complex information. This may be sensitive in nature and may be contentious. This may be individual students, colleagues, senior managers or to patients or it may involve communication with groups. Communication may be within the Trust, with the partner-universities or with NHS-England, Department of Health or Health Education England personnel or committees.
Knowledge, Training & Experience
The post-holder will display a highly specialist level of knowledge in the areas of both education theory and practice and modern radiotherapy and oncology theory and technical and clinical practise. They will have professional clinical knowledge acquired through a BSc (Hons) in Radiotherapy and appropriate Oncology, Radiotherapy or Educational qualification at Masters level (e.g. MA, MSc or MEd). They will have significant experience in supervision and managing learners and personal experience of preparing and/or delivering modern advanced radiotherapy.
Analytical & Judgemental Skills
As a member of the education team in the radiotherapy service, the post-holder will be expected to advise the Education Principal Radiographer and the Professional Head of Radiotherapy about the education and training functions in the service. They will advise senior colleagues on the management of clinical education provision for pre-registration radiographers and pre-qualification assistant practitioners and on the continuous professional development requirements for all staff members. This will involve collecting, analysing and interpreting the complex and competing demands of the various staff groups in the service.
Planning & Organisational Skills
The post holder will plan and organise the rosters for learners and will ensure that the full roster is agreed with the partner universities to learning placements during their clinical placements. They will support the Education Principal Radiographer and the section managers, in conducting a training needs analysis for each element of the service in a manner and timeframe as required by the Trust. They will be responsible for monitoring, auditing and reporting on this analysis to the Principal Radiographer periodically as agreed.
Working with the Education Principal Radiographer and the Lead Radiographer for Protons, the post-holder will participate in projects to design, implement and monitor clinical competencies and associated training needs for tiers of the Proton and Photon workforce.
Physical Skills
The post-holder will be expected to develop and maintain the technical skills required to prepare, facilitate and/ or deliver a radiotherapy treatment, including use of the CT Scanner and Linear Accelerators and to be able to instruct others who are developing these skills. These highly-developed physical skills require millimetre accuracy in the utilisation of complex machinery.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care
The post-holder will be rostered to undertake highly specialist clinical technical imaging or treatment services and will provide senior advice on these services to students and other learners and to more junior qualified colleagues. They will be required to act as the lead radiographer in on-call settings where they will supervise all clinical services being offered in this setting.
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Responsibility for Policy/Service Development
The post-holder will be responsible for proposing departmental policy in relation to the education and training functions of the service and for overseeing the implementation of these educational policies across all geographical sites in which the Radiotherapy Service operates.
Responsibility for Financial & Physical Resources
The post-holder will be responsible for the safe use of expensive or highly complex equipment.
Responsibility for Human Resources
The post-holder will be responsible for highly specialist teaching to pre- and post-registration learners in radiotherapy. The post-holder will be involved in staff and student selection both on site at The Christie and elsewhere within the network of campuses and Trust-sites attached to partner universities.
Responsibility for Information Resources
The post-holder will record personally generated information and ensure a system is in place, compliant with best practice in data management and Trust and University policies, to record, collate, process and store information on the progress of learners. They will updates patient records and maintain departmental databases as appropriate.
Responsibility for Research & Development
The post-holder will not be expected to undertake research as a major job function but will be expected to support colleagues undertaking research, top maintain an awareness of current clinical trials and ensure this is included in the educational update programme and to image or treat patients involved in clinical trials. However, the post-holder may undertake independent research with the agreement of the Professional Head of Radiotherapy.
This job description is not exhaustive and will be reviewed periodically to take into account changes and developments in service requirements. Any changes will be discussed fully with the post-holder.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- DCR(T) or BSc (Hons)
- Therapeutic Radiographer State
- Registered Therapeutic Radiographer
- HCPC Registration
- Evidence of CPD activity
- Evidence of post graduate study/education in area relevant to role
Desirable
- M level qualification in associated subject
- Management qualification
- IT skills
Experience
Essential
- Expert experience with a contemporary range of equipment and techniques
- Expert experience of working with ISO 9001/2008 or equivalent accredited quality system
- Significant experience at a senior level
- Team management experience. Evidence of participation in audit, research and-or radiotherapy development work
Desirable
- Experience/awareness of clinical practice at other Radiotherapy centres
- Participation in the implementation of new equipment or technology
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively and manage conflict resolution with all grades of staff, patients, carers and general public
- Effective people management skills of all staff
- Ability to work well in a team environment and autonomously
- Ability to motivate junior members of the team
- Excellent leadership skills, organisation and decision making skills under pressure in a clinical environment
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills
- Ability to lead the introduction of new techniques, equipment or software
- Excellent technical skills and
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