Clinical Scientist – Radiotherapy
| Posting date: | 22 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | £49,387.00 to £56,515.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49387.00 - £56515.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2026 |
| Location: | 317 01 Freeman Hospital, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9317-26-0417 |
Summary
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 contribute to a wide range of radiotherapy physics clinical and scientific services, including planning, imaging, brachytherapy, radiobiology and radiation protection and clinical scientific computing. You will have a significant role in ensuring that treatment plans accurately predict the delivered dose and that the delivery equipment operates to the expected standard for clinical needs. You will be required to communicate highly complex and sensitive information to a range of people, including to scientific, technical, management and on occasion patients and relatives using language suited to each. You will work closely with the team at the Carlisle site and will on occasion spend time at the Carlisle site. You will provide scientific and technical leadership in your specific areas of research and development. You will maintain and develop high standards of service provision throughout your area of specialty. You will contribute to the development and monitoring procedures and practices, to ensure that quality is maintained and information is stored and communicated appropriately. You will actively contribute to, and at times take a leading role in, research and development activities for healthcare advancement across a range of specialist areas involving multiple team members from a range of disciplines. You will supervise trainee clinical scientists or technologists within the service and contribute to the management, development and training of other staff. You will teach on our Clinical Scientist and FRCR academic training courses and train and coach on our STP teaching programme.