REMS Section Manager

Main area Radiation Engineering and Management Grade NHS AfC:
Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Some weekend and on-call working required.) Job
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Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Weston Park Cancer Centre Town Sheffield Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 18/01/2026 23:59 Interview date 28/01/2026

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems.

Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

This is a rare opportunity for a highly experienced radiotherapy engineer to take on the leadership of an acclaimed technical team of nine engineers in Sheffield in a role which will require very high level technical, management, and interpersonal skills.

As well as performing preventative maintenance and quality assurance, troubleshooting and repairs on our radiotherapy equipment, the post-holder will lead a team of experienced engineers, ensuring maximum availability of the equipment for clinical use while maintaining the highest levels of safety, accuracy, and efficiency.

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Weston Park Cancer Centre is part of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Located on the edge of the beautiful Peak District, Sheffield is a lively and friendly city, a wonderful place to live and work.

One of the most productive departments in the UK, Weston Park provides radiotherapy for a population of 1.9 million, delivering over 4,000 radiotherapy episodes per year with 8 linear accelerators plus PDR brachytherapy, and various other specialised services. A linac replacement programme is well-supported, with two Halcyons arriving in January 2025.

Treatment planning is performed using Eclipse. There are two Philips CT scanners dedicated to radiotherapy, and an XStrahl low energy radiotherapy machine, both with first-line support provided by REMS.

The Radiotherapy Equipment Maintenance Service (REMS) within the Radiotherapy Physics Department provides essential, highly specialised, engineering support to the maintenance, quality assurance, and development of the radiotherapy equipment.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

• Degree in Electronic/Electro-Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• Manufacturers advanced linear accelerator training
• Member of the Register of Clinical Technologists

• Extensive practical experience in radiation equipment maintenance practices and techniques, covering preventative maintenance, servicing, inspection, repair, quality assurance and safety.
• Experience in calibration and quality control of medical equipment.
• Experience of technical authorship
• Specialist training and practical experience on linear accelerators and low-energy radiotherapy machines
• Experience of working with safety-critical medical equipment and techniques in healthcare beyond radiotherapy.
• Specialist training and practical experience on CT Simulators, MR Scanners and…