Research Fellow National Radiotherapy QA Team
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £49,909.00 to £61,825.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49909.00 - £61825.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2025 |
| Location: | Northwood, HA6 2RN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9361-25-0391 |
Summary
Assist with the development of trial protocols and radiotherapy guidelines, particularly with reference to imaging, outlining, multimodality and combination treatments. Discuss and agree approaches with trial investigators to create acceptable consensus outlines for a trial. The post holder should have knowledge of target volume and organ at risk outlining for a variety of anatomical sites. Provide support for review and reporting of pre-accrual and during accrual outlining cases. Provide clinical advice and support to inform development of QA audit programmes. Take a lead in implementing outlining workshops for trial education and training purposes and be prepared to travel as required. Provide specialist clinical advice to radiotherapy consultants and other staff regarding the treatment of patients in clinical trials. Participate in the review of treatment plans and understand the effect of various treatment plan options on patient dose distributions. Discuss and agree approaches with the multidisciplinary group to create optimum treatment plans. The post holder should have knowledge of different planning techniques and be prepared to discuss this with other group members. Take an active role in RTTQA Group meetings and trial management groups. Develop an understanding of advanced radiotherapy, particularly in the areas of new treatment delivery and verification modalities and multi-modality imaging for target volume definition. Take an active role collaborating in the assessment and development of software for trial QA case review. The post holder will be expected to attend one or two clinical sessions per week according to training requirements and on occasions provide clinical cover during illness or absence.