Band 7 Team Leader Therapy Radiographer

An attractive opportunity has arisen to join the Radiotherapy department at BHRUT NHS Trust as a Band 7 Team Leader Therapy Radiographer. We are committed to innovation and continual improvements with the patient at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for an HCPC Registered experienced proactive and dynamic therapeutic radiographer who can meet complex and competing demands, deadlines and targets. This is a brilliant opportunity to gain excellent leadership skills in a fast-paced Trust.

The department treat patients from across East London and Essex. RapidArc, IMRT, IGRT, DIBH and 4DCT are in routine use for a wide range of clinical sites and we are one of the highest providers of IMRT & VMAT in England. The centre participates in several clinical trials. We are also in the process of implementing Identify, Varians Surface guided radiotherapy equipment.

Our department is equipped with:

Halcyon Linac +Identify SGRT

Edge + unit that has SRS and SABR capabilities, 4D CBCT and a 6DOF couch + Identify SGRT

Ethos Therapy Linac +Hypersight +Identify SGRT

Siemens wide-bore CT Scanner with iMAR capability

ARIA Rad-Onc EMR, Eclipse Treatment planning and Ethos Treatment Management Systems

QPulse Quality Management System

Varian Noona Patient Report Outcomes app

Main duties of the job

Accountable for own professional actions

Be recognised and accessible as an expert and team leader in their specific field: promoting best practice, giving expert advice, delegating and disseminating knowledge to the profession and to the wider health care arena.

Plan and deliver complex radiotherapy procedures to a wide range of benign and malignant conditions to a high level of accuracy. Use individual judgement on a daily basis to verify and maintain reproducible and precise treatment.

Work within departmental protocols, deviating where necessary to reach sound conclusions and provide optimum care.

Work autonomously within the legal, ethical and professional framework provided by the professional body.

Generate new solutions to identify and best meet the needs of the patient.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.