Therapy Radiographer - Radiotherapy Department

Main area Radiotherapy Department Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
-CAN-8275944

Site Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Town Northwood Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, plus 15% High Cost Area Supplement Salary period Yearly Closing 30/10/2026 08:00

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 Therapy Radiographer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for a highly motivated therapy radiographer to join us at the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, based in Northwood, Middlesex.

You will work as an unsupervised worker and supervise junior staff and students and assistants.

Carry out complex technical radio therapeutic procedures on all the treatment and pre-treatment units in the department on a rotational basis.

Undertake the appropriate care of patient assessment of treatment progress and side effects making appropriate referral to the multi-disciplinary team.

In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £4,870 and a maximum payment of £6,137 per annum pro rata.

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.

The post holder will assess patients’ level of knowledge before commencing with treatment and thus participate in the informed consent process.

Provide appropriate information or referring to support services.

To guide, instruct and support patients receiving radiotherapy and to advise patients on necessary aftercare.

To operate and care for all radiotherapy equipment. This should include the knowledge and understanding required to undertake initial diagnosis and reporting of faults.

Manage the running of the treatment / pre-treatment unit.

To maintain CPD activity such that changes in practice are understood and can be absorbed into daily activity as required

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 flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the…