Radiotherapy Clinical Educator

An exciting position is offered to a Therapeutic Radiographer with a proven and extensive portfolio in clinical education. A full-time permanent position and a full-time 12-months fixed term position is available. The successful post holder will be part of a team of innovative clinical educators, working at pace to respond to training and education in the radiotherapy technical and wider systems of care setting.

The post holder will support learners at every level.

The post holder will follow systems and processes already in place for new staff training (inductions) and the development of education frameworks and quality assurance within the service.

The work will be flexible, with opportunities when it suits the service, to work from home.

The post holder will cover wider aspects of radiotherapy education, including pre-registration and post registration development. They will facilitate training requirements set out in the services Learning Needs Analysis. The post holder will also support pre-registration learning experience, in order to address future workforce supply. The post holder will align the delivery of their work with Health Education England quality indicators for effective learning environments.

• Support learners at every level; including individuals with aspirations to join NHS careers
• Ensure learners are socialised effectively, cultivating a safe and open learning environment
• Support learners through mentorship, supervision, clinical supervision, preceptorship and coaching
• Identify and respond to educational learning needs across a range of department, working with Subject Matter Experts to create high quality learning resources and associated competencies
• Review education material, learning from incident, to maintain teaching quality and be responsive to organizational learning
• Design and deliver teaching material in forms of classroom learning, conferences and publications
• Monitor and promote learner wellbeing – involvement in risk assessments, reasonable adjustment, managing absence
• Maintain training records and data base

The radiotherapy education team consists of a group of highly experienced clinical educationalist, who lead projects at a local and national level. The team is successful in securing awards that generate income to invest directly in workforce education, with then impact significantly on patient clinical outcomes. Working with multiple agencies, the team is privileged to shape curriculums to inform learning for our future workforce.

This role should appeal to an individual who is highly motivated, hardworking, resilient and passionate about people. You should want to make a difference to patients, through workforce education and be willing to adapt and deliver in a highly demanding work environment.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world;

chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year.

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…