Job summary
RadiotherapyOperational Manager Brachytherapy Lead – St Lukes Radiotherapy Department
Are you an experienced NHS operational managerlooking for a new challenge? Are you a TeamLead Radiographer looking to take that next step in your career? If this is you, then why not look to becomepart of our excellent clinical team at St Lukes Cancer Centre?
St Lukes Cancer Centre is focused on providing excellent patientpathways and patient-centred care. We strive to continuously evolve to reflectthe technical advances within Radiotherapy. The Varian ETHOS complements oursix Varian TrueBeams and 3 CT Scanners across the two sites. We also have anactive HDR Brachytherapy service, a Papillon unit for KV contact treatment anda Gulmay superficial machine.
Our Brachytherapy service currently sees about 130cervix and endometrium patients and 25 HDR prostate patients a year. We alsotreat oesophagus, rectal cancer and are in the process of introducing skin andbiliary HDR within the next financial year. We are also one of the five centresin the UK that has a Papillon machine to treat early rectal cancer.
Some routine working at our satellite site at East Surrey Hospital will be required to cover the general operational management rota.
We look forward to meeting with should you feel that you would like to become part of our St Lukes team.
Main duties of the job
Our main site andbrachytherapy service is based at the Royal Surrey Hospital, Guildford and oursatellite centre is based at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill. Guildford gives easy access to the beautifulNorth & South Downs Way, is an hour from the coast and has great transportlinks to the surrounding counties of Berkshire, Hampshire and Sussex. The city offers cultural diversity, is hometo the University of Surrey and it is great place to reside and explore.
Key to this rolewill be operationally managing the brachytherapy service. Expert leadership andprofessionalism will be required to drive and support the radiotherapy servicein St Lukes Cancer Centre. You will work closely with the Lead Radiographers,clinicians, theatre staff and other key departments to ensure that we areproviding effective patient pathways and patient-centred care. The complexneeds of our interesting and appreciative patient mix mean that no two days areever the same and offer plenty of learning opportunities for you and ourradiographers.
As a MacMillanadopted department, you will have access to a wide range of support for bothpatients and opportunities for your own continuous professional development.
We have on-goingdepartmental, NCRN and commercial clinical trial activity with many trialscurrently open to recruitment and further ones in development.
About us
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is a friendly, supportive, busy but welcoming acute and community Trust that is ambitious about developing our services and your career.
Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development. There are over 4,500 members of our Royal Surrey family.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in the community and homes across Guildford and Waverley.
We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC. We are investing in our colleagues through our health and wellbeing programme and a commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.
There has never been a better time to join us.
Date posted
16 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£52,963 to £59,360 a year Inc HCAS Prorata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
C9384-AGB-EMF13609-2
Job locations
Egerton Road
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XX