Senior Dosimetrist

Employer The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Freeman Hospital Town 317 01 Freeman Hospital Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/01/2026 23:59 Interview date 20/02/2026

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under‑represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus.

Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

An opportunity has arisen within The Northern Centre for Cancer Care for an experienced Clinical Technologist, Dosimetrist or Therapeutic Radiographer to act as a Senior Dosimetrist in the Radiotherapy Centre.

You will provide the technical aspects of the radiotherapy dose planning service at Freeman Hospital or Cumberland Infirmary site. In addition to routine planning responsibilities there will also be the opportunity to participate in research and development projects and provide training/supervision for more junior staff.

Current experience of radiotherapy treatment planning is essential, and the post holder will be supported through a comprehensive in-house competency‑based training programme in treatment planning for a wide range of treatment sites.

Radiotherapy treatment planning is undertaken on Raystation. The Dosimetry teams work as a large, combined service between both sites of NCCC in Newcastle and Carlisle, allowing ample opportunity for the post holder to deepen their experience of complex treatment planning techniques.

Shortlisted candidates will be offered face‑to‑face interviews in Newcastle. We are unable to offer remote interviews.

• Interview Date Friday 20 February 2026
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• Managing the daily organisation of own workload to ensure the delivery of the highly specialist external beam radiotherapy dose planning service to the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC).
• For individual patients, designing the radiotherapy plan and determining the treatment parameters on a treatment planning system.
• For individual patients, validating treatment data generated to ensure its integrity and appropriateness for clinical use and exporting it for treatment.
• Responsible, with the clinician, for designing highly complex plans for individual patients with particular dosimetric problems and where appropriate communicating the complex information of the plan to other staff groups.
• Responsible for ensuring effective communications within their service and across professional boundaries, overcoming barriers…