Radiotherapy Treatment Lead | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2025 |
| Location: | Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 0RY |
| Company: | Southend University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7209102/390-DoM-SO-8230 |
Summary
Join Our Dynamic Radiotherapy Team – Make a Real Difference Every Day
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our innovative and supportive team, where you’ll be at the forefront of cutting-edge cancer treatment. We’re equipped with Elekta Linacs and a brand-new Halcyon system featuring Ethos software, enabling us to deliver state-of-the-art adaptive radiotherapy. Our department also runs a busy and diverse brachytherapy service, treating prostate, gynaecological, and skin cancers, and we utilise a Toshiba wide bore CT scanner for precision imaging.
As a Team Leader, you’ll be responsible for guiding and managing a small team of Radiographers, Apprentice Radiographers, and Assistants (3–4 staff), ensuring the smooth day-to-day operation of our treatment or pre-treatment units. You’ll play a key role in delivering a timely, accurate, and patient-centred service—working collaboratively while following departmental protocols.
You’ll provide essential support and reassurance to patients throughout their treatment journey, always maintaining the highest standards of care, professionalism, and respect for patient dignity and emotional well-being.
If you’re passionate about delivering outstanding patient care, motivated to lead, and excited by the opportunity to work with advanced radiotherapy technologies—we’d love to hear from you.
Lead by example in clinical documentation and accurate record-keeping for both treatment planning and delivery.
Be adaptable and flexible, working shifts or extended hours as needed to meet patient demand.
Participate in the on-call rota and be available for weekend and Bank Holiday coverage when required to support service continuity.
To be responsible for the daily efficient time management of the treatment unit workload and patient workload.
Implement departmental policies and procedures, participating in the development as required including proposing changes to practice. Initiate new policies to maintain or improve services to patients.
To organise, manage and delegate tasks and duties as required to maintain an effective patient-focussed service.
Ensure that radiotherapy treatments are precisely planned and delivered, with careful consideration of dosage, targeting, and patient positioning.
With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
For further detailed information, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
We look forward to receiving your application
This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Jun 2025