Job Description

An exciting position is offered to a Therapeutic Radiographer with a proven and extensive portfolio in clinical education. The successful post holder will be part of a team of innovative clinical educators, working at pace to respond to training and education in the radiotherapy technical and wider systems of care setting. The post holder will support learners at every level.



The post holder will follow systems and processes already in place for new staff training (inductions) and the development of education frameworks and quality assurance within the service.



The work will be flexible, with opportunities when it suits the service, to work from home.



The post holder will cover wider aspects of radiotherapy education, including pre-registration and post registration development. They will facilitate training requirements set out in the services Learning Needs Analysis. The post holder will also support pre-registration learning experience, in order to address future workforce supply. The post holder will align the delivery of their work with Health Education England quality indicators for effective learning environments.

The post holder will be required to:

o Support learners at every level; including individuals with aspirations to join NHS careers

o Ensure learners are socialized effectively, cultivating a safe and open learning environment

o Support learners through mentorship, supervision, clinical supervision, preceptorship and coaching

o Identify and respond to educational learning needs across a range of department, working with Subject Matter Experts to create high quality learning resources and associated competencies

o Review education material, learning from incident, to maintain teaching quality and be responsive to organizational learning

o Design and deliver teaching material in forms of classroom learning, conferences and publications

o Monitor and promote learner wellbeing - involvement in risk assessments, reasonable adjustment, managing absence

o Maintain training records and data base



The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.



We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.



We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.



1. Communication & Relationship Skills



The post holder will provide and receive highly complex information. This may be sensitive in nature and may be contentious. This may be individual students, colleagues, senior managers or to patients or it may involve communication with groups. Communication may be within the Trust, with the partner-universities or with NHS-England, Department of Health or Health Education England personnel or committees.

2. Knowledge, Training & Experience



The post-holder will display a highly specialist level of knowledge in the areas of both education theory and practice and modern radiotherapy and oncology theory and technical and clinical practise. They will have professional clinical knowledge acquired through a BSc (Hons) in Radiotherapy and appropriate Oncology, Radiotherapy or Educational qualification at Masters level (e.g. MA, MSc or MEd). They will have significant experience in supervision and managing learners and personal experience of preparing and/or delivering modern advanced radiotherapy.

3. Analytical & Judgemental Skills



As a member of the education team in the radiotherapy service, the post-holder will be expected to advise the Education Principal Radiographer and the Professional Head of Radiotherapy about the education and training functions in the service. They will advise senior colleagues on the management of clinical education provision for pre-registration radiographers and pre-qualification assistant practitioners and on the continuous professional development requirements for all staff members. This will involve collecting, analysing and interpreting the complex and competing demands of the various staff groups in the service.

4. Planning & Organisational Skills



The post holder will plan and organise the rosters for learners and will ensure that the full roster is agreed with the partner universities to learning placements during their clinical placements.

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They will support the Education Principal Radiographer and the section managers, in conducting a training needs analysis for each element of the service in a manner and timeframe as required by the Trust. They will be responsible for monitoring, auditing and reporting on this analysis to the Principal Radiographer periodically as agreed. Working with the Education Principal Radiographer and the Lead Radiographer for Protons, the post-holder will participate in projects to design, implement and monitor clinical competencies and associated training needs for tiers of the Proton and Photon workforce.

5. Physical Skills



The post-holder will be expected to develop and maintain the technical skills required to prepare, facilitate and/ or deliver a radiotherapy treatment, including use of the CT Scanner and Linear Accelerators and to be able to instruct others who are developing these skills. These highly-developed physical skills require millimetre accuracy in the utilisation of complex machinery.

6. Responsibility for Patient/Client Care



The post-holder will be rostered to undertake highly specialist clinical technical imaging or treatment services and will provide senior advice on these services to students and other learners and to more junior qualified colleagues. They will be required to act as the lead radiographer in on-call settings where they will supervise all clinical services being offered in this setting.

7. Responsibility for Policy/Service Development



The post-holder will be responsible for proposing departmental policy in relation to the education and training functions of the service and for overseeing the implementation of these educational policies across all geographical sites in which the Radiotherapy Service operates.

8. Responsibility for Financial & Physical Resources



The post-holder will be responsible for the safe use of expensive or highly complex equipment.

9. Responsibility for Human Resources



The post-holder will be responsible for highly specialist teaching to pre- and post-registration learners in radiotherapy. The post-holder will be involved in staff and student selection both on site at The Christie and elsewhere within the network of campuses and Trust-sites attached to partner universities.

10. Responsibility for Information Resources



The post-holder will record personally generated information and ensure a system is in place, compliant with best practice in data management and Trust and University policies, to record, collate, process and store information on the progress of learners. They will updates patient records and maintain departmental databases as appropriate.

11. Responsibility for Research & Development



The post-holder will not be expected to undertake research as a major job function but will be expected to support colleagues undertaking research, top maintain an awareness of current clinical trials and ensure this is included in the educational update programme and to image or treat patients involved in clinical trials. However, the post-holder may undertake independent research with the agreement of the Professional Head of Radiotherapy.

This job description is not exhaustive and will be reviewed periodically to take into account changes and developments in service requirements. Any changes will be discussed fully with the post-holder.