Our Radiotherapy network has sites based at Withington, Oldham, Macclesfield, and Salford; treating approximately 9,500 patients per year over 13 treatment machines.

Details

• Date posted: 03 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year Pro rata Per Annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 413-108542-CNS-LM
• Job locations: Radiotherapy Withington Treatment - E00079, Manchester, M20 4BX, United Kingdom

Job Description

Job responsibilities

• To ensure that the highly complex radiotherapy and imaging equipment is safe and accurate to operate, both for staff and patients, undertaking the appropriate machine checks and reporting any variances, faults, and malfunctions.
• Undertake and evaluate radiation dose delivery and complex calculations involving a range of radiation types and energies.
• Interpret, monitor, and evaluate the treatment prescriptions to ensure that radiotherapy is delivered accurately and reproducibly and in accordance with the quality system.
• Evaluate delivery of radiotherapy through application and interpretation of treatment verification procedures.
• Ensure the team follows appropriate systems and working methods to achieve the safe, timely achievement of workload targets.
• Accurately position patient and operate highly complex radiotherapy and imaging equipment along the radiotherapy pathway.
• Ensure the team keeps accurate records and comply with necessary policies and procedures.
• Analyse systematically and evaluate all data and information relevant to patients' diagnosis, ensuring the patient and their relatives are treated with dignity and respect at all times.
• Communicate confidential sensitive information, and provide emotional support, to patients and their carers/relatives including children and the terminally ill. Provide information to patients and their carers with regard to the radiotherapy pathway and expected side effects.
• Communicate accurate and timely information with all other disciplines involved along the patients' pathway.
• With the team on the unit, patients, and the wider multidisciplinary team manage areas of conflict and escalate as necessary.
• Anticipate and identify common and complex treatment-related side effects, offering advice and where necessary refer to other relevant health care professionals.
• Provide, receive, and use sensitive information, maintaining patient confidentiality at all times, in line with information governance legislation.
• Apply safe and effective moving and handling skills in order to protect patients and staff and abide by Health and safety legislation in the workplace.
• Minimise risk of cross infection through contamination by bodily fluids/matter. In accordance with the infection control policy.
• Implement the procedures and work instructions described for the department in the accredited quality management system and report any variances.
• Contribute to development of the quality management system by reviewing and writing work instructions and operating procedures.
• Ensure all work and actions comply with local rules and current UK Ionising Radiation Regulations 1999 and IR(ME)R 2017.
• Be aware of and participate in the audit and research within the department and the implementation of new processes and techniques.
• Undertake training and competency to dispense medication under Patient Group Direction (PGD).
• Participate in the extended shift system, bank holidays, weekend working, and on-call.
• Any other duties negotiated with the post holder, to develop their role in the organisation.
• Achieve all the competencies as outlined by the radiotherapy education team, within a time period as outlined by the line manager.

Supervisory & managerial

• Lead, coordinate, supervise, and manage a team of staff operating radiotherapy equipment and act as lead practitioner, making assessments and key decisions in regard to workload management, patient care, and treatment.

Teaching and training

• Provide mentorship and guidance for junior staff and be a good role model.
• Participate in an annual Personal Development Review.
• Attend all essential training and clinical updates as required and ensure your team also attend all relevant training.
• Assimilate new ideas and techniques and have an ability to assess their value.
• Assist in the supervision and training/teaching of pre-registration students and new members of staff.
• Highlight to the line manager all issues of inadequate performance, including capability and poor professional standards, for students and employees. Provide evidence where necessary and requested.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential:

• DCR(T), BSc (Hons) or PGDip in Therapeutic Radiography.
• HCPC registration

Desirable:

• Attendance at post-registration training events, M-level modules, or management/leadership training.

Experience

Essential:

• Clinical Experience within a treatment setting demonstrated by evidence of a contemporary range of treatment equipment and techniques including ablative techniques (SRS/SABR).
• Supporting colleagues in managing patients including protocol variations, response to imaging/changes in treatments.
• Experience in on-treatment imaging and relevant on-set clinical decision making.
• Experience of quality, governance, and service improvement. Contributing to an ISO9001-accredited system or similar.
• Reporting of incidents, errors, complaints, and compliments.
• Participating in technical developments.
• Experience of working within a team environment.

Desirable:

• Awareness of contemporary trends in advanced radiotherapy.
• Awareness of clinical practice at other Radiotherapy centres.
• Awareness of trial protocols and procedures.

Skills

Essential:

• Ability to manage difficult conversations.
• Ability in conflict resolution with all grades of staff, patients, carers, and general public.
• Ability to foster a team-environment, motivating colleagues.
• Ability to impart messages including in a group setting, utilising presentation aids as appropriate.
• Ability to manage colleagues.
• Ability to manage workload.
• Ability to manage pathways.
• Ability to analyse data and formulate plans based on these.
• Ability to make sound judgements to support clinical decisions.
• Ability to utilise core clinical IT (e.g., R&V systems, PACS/RIS systems, PAS systems).
• Ability to utilise clinical support IT (e.g., quality management systems, incident reporting systems, audit software).
• Ability to utilise core non-clinical IT (e.g., MS Office etc).

Knowledge

Essential: