Clinical Director CMPE

As Clinical Director of Christie Medical Physics and Engineering (CMPE) you will lead a multidisciplinary team of over 200 employees providing medical physics and engineering services to The Christie, satellite centres, regional and national customers. The post holder will carry responsibility for therapy and diagnostic services delivered on multiple sites., You will be responsible for scientific standard of Medical Physics services including:-

o Radiotherapy services at The Christie and its satellites

o Nuclear medicine services at The Christie, regional Nuclear Medicine and the National PET contract.

o Imaging Physics and Radiation Protection services to contracted trusts and The Christie NHS Trust,

o Clinical Engineering services at The Christie

This is an opportunity to lead clinical scientific services at the highest level. You will ensure services provided at The Christie NHS Trust and regional customers are of the highest standard, and represent The Christie nationally and internationally.

The Christie has strong links to academic institutions and, in particular, you will work with the University of Manchester to teaching and research for the benefit of patients.

This post involves scientific leadership for perhaps the largest Medical Physics department in The NHS.

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. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.