Treatment Planning Dosimetrist | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The Radiotherapy Physics & Engineering Section is responsible for providing a clinical scientific service to the Radiotherapy Department of Guy’s Cancer Centre. Functions of the section include:

• Carrying out patient radiotherapy treatment planning and checking.
• Advising other clinical staff on the physics of radiotherapy.
• Measuring patient received doses and radiotherapy treatment equipment output.
• Ensuring the safety of patients and staff in a hazardous environment which includes exposure to high levels of ionising radiation.
• Ensuring equipment is operating safely and effectively, and investigating complex faults.
• The evaluation, selection, procurement, installation and acceptance testing of equipment.
• Supporting research and clinical trials.

Working closely with Clinical Oncology and Radiotherapy, physicists, dosimetrists and technicians provide a wide range of services.

The main roles of the post are to carry out treatment planning and checking and to assist in the mould room, as part of a team in the Treatment Planning service.

The post holder will be responsible on a day to day basis to the Lead Treatment Planning Dosimetrists.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for detailed information regarding the responsibilities and requirements for this post.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust (GSTT) has embarked upon a comprehensive cancer strategy that will shape the future of services for the next generation of cancer patients. We strive to become a world class cancer service, delivering internationally distinctive services that are patient centred, research driven and clinically led. The cancer centres at GSTT and Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup (QMH) have been created so that we can realise this vision.

The Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering at Guys & St. Thomas’ provides a comprehensive range of scientific and technical services to the Trust and external organisations. Its large Radiotherapy Physics and Engineering section works closely with the Radiotherapy Department to deliver high quality patient care on state of the art equipment.

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