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The Oncology Physics Department at Edinburgh Cancer Centre (ECC) is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Band 7 Support Clinical Scientist to join our team, taking an active role in our dosimetry, treatment planning, brachytherapy and technology sections. This will include machine QA and dosimetry, patient specific QA, commissioning, R&D, routine service and new technique development in treatment planning for external beam radiotherapy & HDR/LDR brachytherapy. Previous experience with Varian hardware and software would be advantageous, but full training will be given.
Applicants should have an honours degree in physics or other relevant subject, an accredited postgraduate degree and should be registered with the HCPC as a Clinical Scientist. Should there be insufficient applications from candidates at this level, we would consider applications from those with an appropriate Masters degree and clinical experience who will achieve registration within approximately 6 months of appointment (for appointment at an appropriate level).
The department has 6 Varian linacs (including 1 Novalis TX & 1 TrueBeam STx), and will soon be expanding to 7. We have 2 wide-bore Philips Brilliance CT’s with RPM. Eclipse and iPlan are used for external beam treatment planning with ARIA 13.6 as the Record and Verify system, although we are upgrading later this year. ECC has an established intra-cranial Stereotactic service and is designated as the provider for the National Specialist Service for Benign Lesions for Scotland. We are expanding use of VMAT, SBRT, HDR techniques & transit dosimetry. The department is an active participant in clinical trials and has research links to the University of Edinburgh.
It is expected interviews will take place on 1st and/or 2nd June 2022.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact John Frame on 0131 537 2249 or at John.Frame@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk