Senior Radiotherapy Engineer - Band 7

The post provides the comprehensive expertise and experience necessary for the department to operate clinical linear accelerators to the required legislation and national guidelines. A large degree of versatility, both in working patterns and skills base, is required to provide the immediate emergency coverage required during normal working hours and to effect permanent repairs during non-treatment hours. In addition both planned and corrective maintenance is performed to enhance the availability and reliability of the service.

Maintain clinical accelerators requiring core practical and theoretical electronic skills.

Engage in the activity and maintenance of the quality management system.

Attend necessary training courses required in the performance of your duties.

Ensure that all activities conform to statutory regulations, local rules and approved codes of practice, in particular IRR and IRMER and the use of radioactive substances.

Follow all the safety precautions relating to COSHH and Health & Safety regulations when dealing with radioactive and chemical products.Engage in the activities of a mechanical workshop including production of applicator cutouts and other items to the benefit of the radiotherapy service.

The post holder may be required to perform duties outside the normal working hours of the department, including weekends (on-call and service work) and contribute to bank holiday cover.

Communicate complex information relating to specialist procedures to colleagues.

Develop positive working relationships at all levels in connection with their service.

Responsible for ensuring effective communications within their service and across professional boundaries, overcoming barriers to understanding.

Provide accurate oral and written reports.

Interpretation and formulation of complex technical data.

To have the scientific skills to interpret results and form a judgement on their significance in situations from a range of possible options.

For example, when carrying out a repair on a linac, deciding on how best to affect a repair considering the various active systems.

Plans a complex range of activities in accordance with Trust objectives, standards and priorities, including the formulation and adjustment of plans.

For example, organising the part for a repair, arranging delivery, coordinating time in a busy schedule to carry out the repair and communicating with the necessary staff members to return the machine to clinical use.

Ability to operate medical equipment safely and effectively for prolonged periods of time.

Provide highly specialist technical service.

To provide technical assistance and advice to medical staff or other health care professionals performing clinical investigations or interventions.

To ensure patient safety with the use of commercially manufactured equipment and systems ensuring that these are adequately maintained, calibrated and tested. For example, creating a custom cutout that needs to be quality assured before clinical use.

Responsibilities for Policy and Service Development Implementation

To be aware of relevant legal and statutory issues, international standards, and guidelines for best practice.

Implementing local, departmental and Trust policies to meet legal and statutory requirements at all times, for example in relation to the data protection act.

Contributes to discussions on changes to policies within own area to ensure they reflect best practice, thus maintaining and improving the quality of the services.

Ensure new or amended protocols and procedures are correctly and uniformly implemented within own work area.

Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

To be responsible for the safe use of expensive highly complex equipment.

Order supplies for area of work.

Responsibility for human resources (including training)

Trains other Engineers and other healthcare professionals as required.

Responsibilities for research and development

To audit services to contribute to clinical governance.

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Qualifications

Desirable: - Management training, e.g. ILM level 3; - Recent Radiation Protection Supervisor certificate

Skills

Knowledge

Experience

Desirable: - Completion of relevant manufacturers certified training

Specific Requirements

Personal Qualities