About this role
Job summary
The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) has created a new 8B role to act as the Lead for Clinical Developments and Deputy Head of Treatment Planning and is looking for a highly experienced registered radiotherapy Medical Physics Expert to fill it.
NCCC runs services at both Freeman Hospital, Newcastle and Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle and provides a highly specialised clinical service for the treatment of cancer patients. The successful candidate will be based primarily at the Freeman Hospital but would be required to work occasionally in the Carlisle site.
Interview Date Tuesday 14 July 2026 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for supporting the head of treatment planning by providing scientific expertise, managing clinical and scientific teams and driving development of the clinical planning service to ensure a high quality service. You will have operational management responsibility for a range of aspects of the planning service and assure quality of dose modelling in a range of planning software. You will line-manage clinical scientists and advise and mentor clinical technologists. You must have significant experience in development, commissioning and QA of treatment planning processes and systems, including automated and AI systems, radiobiology and adaptive planning. Proven experience of leading teams and leading change is essential.
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) Freeman Hospital Newcastle Dental Hospital Cramlington Manor Walks Urgent treatment centres Newcastle Fertility Centre Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria Northern Genetics Service These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description Job responsibilities
The NCCC is one of the leading radiotherapy centres in the UK. We are the first to use MR-only planning for radiotherapy and are one of the few radiotherapy centres with a dedicated MR scanner. Our range of advanced treatment methods on our state of the art fleet of Varian units includes SRS, SABR, VMAT, IMRT, TBI, TSEI and SGRT. We have recently introduced HyperSight imaging on our newest linacs and are developing our on-line adaptive radiotherapy processes across a range of treatments. We have a strong and developing brachytherapy service and our growing computing group is leading major automation projects.
NCCC is a reference site for advanced SRS practices with Brainlab Elements and we have an excellent culture of clinical trials involvement. We have a strong teaching pedigree linked with Newcastle University, delivering the national STP academic MSc course, oncologist FRCR teaching and local STP and Route-2 physicist training.
You will provide scientific and technical leadership in external beam planning and contribute to ensuring resilience in the planning service. You will manage and lead parts of the planning service across both Newcastle and Carlisle sites and have responsibility for commissioning new and updated planning systems and related tools. You will lead major strategic innovations to ensure that NCCC maintains a high quality planning service to national and international guidelines and standards. You will liaise directly with senior clinical oncologists to develop and update clinical protocols. You will take a leading role in clinical trials to ensure that QC and MPE input is appropriate and you will contribute to the design of trials led by NCCC. You will lead on specific radiation incidents where there is a planning element, to investigate, identify and implement lessons and ensure that audits demonstrate reduced likelihood of recurrence. You will contribute to design and delivery of training and coaching for a range of needs, including MSc, STP, FRCR and in-house professional development for the main professional groups in radiotherapy. You will develop and monitor strategies, procedures and practices, to ensure that quality of external beam treatment planning is maintained and information is stored and communicated appropriately. You will deliver research activities across a range of specialist areas, supervising a range of scientific and technical staff as appropriate. You will line-manage a number of clinical scientists and mentor, train and develop the clinical technologist team. You will advise on the update, expansion and introduction of planning related software and training.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education Essential
Honours Degree in an appropriate physical science, to a minimum of Second Class Appropriate post-graduate PhD level, or Masters and equivalent level of specialist knowledge to PhD level The post holder must be a registered Clinical Scientist (HCPC) Recognised by the Secretary of State as a Medical Physics Expert
Knowledge & Experience Essential
Highly specialist in-depth knowledge and understanding of the application of physical and engineering sciences in medicine performed and developed within the Department to doctorate level or equivalent In-depth knowledge and understanding of current legislation, regulations and safety standards pertinent to working area and the protection of staff, patients and members of the public Knowledge of Clinical Governance issues including ethical and regulatory considerations Extensive and up to date knowledge of radiation physics applied to radiotherapy In depth knowledge of a wide range of Radiotherapy Physics practices In-depth knowledge of human anatomy and physiology Specialist knowledge in more than one area of radiotherapy physics relevant to the role Experience research and development and leading service development projects Experience of successfully leading major clinical development projects Involvement in projects with multidisciplinary members Experience in equipment and process QA, advanced treatment planning, and imaging in radiotherapy development
Desirable
Experience in preparing grant applications Good publication record of peer review journals and research
Skills & Abilities Essential
Experience of communicating highly complex and sensitive information to patients and clinical colleagues Ability to and experience of solving complex problems Good IT skills, appropriate for scientific analysis and presentation of data Good report writing and presentation skills, including the production of scientific papers, reports and national conference presentations Teaching, training and mentoring skills Ability to give scientific technical advice to colleagues, senior clinicians and other professionals Ability to initiate research and development and to lead teams and work within teams in research and development The ability to undertake complex calculations, data analysis and to issue reports on quantitative techniques
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Freeman Hospital
317 01 Freeman Hospital
NE7 7DN
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://careers.nuth.nhs.uk/why-us (Opens in a new tab)