Associate Healthcare Science Practitioner - Radiotherapy Physics

Main area Healthcare Science Grade NHS AfC:
Band 4 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (end date 1 Sept 2027. 0.5 WTe) Hours Part time - 18.75 hours per week (Working patterns will be discussed with suitable applicants, the service currently has the greatest need between 9am and 1pm.) Job  

Employer East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Town Northwood Salary £28,392 - £31,157 per annum pro rata, plus 15% High Cost Area Supplement Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

We are recruiting for an Associate Healthcare Science Practitioner
- Radiotherapy Physics who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Associate practitioner works with the radiotherapy physics team providing support for routine tasks. This will involve co-ordinating input of patient scans and data into the department and assigning appropriate care paths, inputting CT and other image data into the treatment planning systems, outlining standard organs, assisting with brachytherapy theatre sessions, performing standard tests on quality assurance equipment.

This role plays a practical part in the patient’s treatment pathway and as such the postholder is classified as an operator under IR(ME)
R and must take responsibility for following departmental IR(ME)
R procedures.

The post holder also provides administrative support to the physics team with approximately 75% of the time spent on healthcare science duties and 25% on administration.

This post is 0.5

Wte for 1 year. Hours of work will be discussed with candidates during interview. The department currently prefers candidate who are able to work in the morning.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:

Include,Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Book in patient data into the physics department and assigns appropriate care path from a list of options. Assess urgency of the plan and inform lead clinical scientist of any urgent plans

Contact patients whose treatment start dates need to be changed

Transfers patient CT data from the scanner to the treatment planning system – this is done electronically

Fuses image sets from different imaging modalities ensuring correct orientation of scans and that correct scan set is used

Prepares CT data for clinician contouring and treatment planning

Submits patient data for clinical trials

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be…