Radiotherapy Clinical Educator
| Posting date: | 01 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 December 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M20 4BX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9413-25-0815 |
Summary
1. Communication & Relationship Skills The post holder will provide and receive highly complex information. This may be sensitive in nature and may be contentious. This may be individual students, colleagues, senior managers or to patients or it may involve communication with groups. Communication may be within the Trust, with the partner-universities or with NHS-England, Department of Health or Health Education England personnel or committees. 2. Knowledge, Training & Experience The post-holder will display a highly specialist level of knowledge in the areas of both education theory and practice and modern radiotherapy and oncology theory and technical and clinical practise. They will have professional clinical knowledge acquired through a BSc (Hons) in Radiotherapy and appropriate Oncology, Radiotherapy or Educational qualification at Masters level (e.g. MA, MSc or MEd). They will have significant experience in supervision and managing learners and personal experience of preparing and/or delivering modern advanced radiotherapy. 3. Analytical & Judgemental Skills As a member of the education team in the radiotherapy service, the post-holder will be expected to advise the Education Principal Radiographer and the Professional Head of Radiotherapy about the education and training functions in the service. They will advise senior colleagues on the management of clinical education provision for pre-registration radiographers and pre-qualification assistant practitioners and on the continuous professional development requirements for all staff members. This will involve collecting, analysing and interpreting the complex and competing demands of the various staff groups in the service. 4. Planning & Organisational Skills The post holder will plan and organise the rosters for learners and will ensure that the full roster is agreed with the partner universities to learning placements during their clinical placements. . They will support the Education Principal Radiographer and the section managers, in conducting a training needs analysis for each element of the service in a manner and timeframe as required by the Trust. They will be responsible for monitoring, auditing and reporting on this analysis to the Principal Radiographer periodically as agreed. Working with the Education Principal Radiographer and the Lead Radiographer for Protons, the post-holder will participate in projects to design, implement and monitor clinical competencies and associated training needs for tiers of the Proton and Photon workforce.5. Physical Skills The post-holder will be expected to develop and maintain the technical skills required to prepare, facilitate and/ or deliver a radiotherapy treatment, including use of the CT Scanner and Linear Accelerators and to be able to instruct others who are developing these skills. These highly-developed physical skills require millimetre accuracy in the utilisation of complex machinery. 6. Responsibility for Patient/Client Care The post-holder will be rostered to undertake highly specialist clinical technical imaging or treatment services and will provide senior advice on these services to students and other learners and to more junior qualified colleagues. They will be required to act as the lead radiographer in on-call settings where they will supervise all clinical services being offered in this setting. 7. Responsibility for Policy/Service Development The post-holder will be responsible for proposing departmental policy in relation to the education and training functions of the service and for overseeing the implementation of these educational policies across all geographical sites in which the Radiotherapy Service operates. 8. Responsibility for Financial & Physical Resources The post-holder will be responsible for the safe use of expensive or highly complex equipment. 9. Responsibility for Human Resources The post-holder will be responsible for highly specialist teaching to pre- and post-registration learners in radiotherapy. The post-holder will be involved in staff and student selection both on site at The Christie and elsewhere within the network of campuses and Trust-sites attached to partner universities. 10. Responsibility for Information Resources The post-holder will record personally generated information and ensure a system is in place, compliant with best practice in data management and Trust and University policies, to record, collate, process and store information on the progress of learners. They will updates patient records and maintain departmental databases as appropriate. 11. Responsibility for Research & Development The post-holder will not be expected to undertake research as a major job function but will be expected to support colleagues undertaking research, top maintain an awareness of current clinical trials and ensure this is included in the educational update programme and to image or treat patients involved in clinical trials. However, the post-holder may undertake independent research with the agreement of the Professional Head of Radiotherapy. This job description is not exhaustive and will be reviewed periodically to take into account changes and developments in service requirements. Any changes will be discussed fully with the post-holder.