Pre-Treatment Expert Practitioner

Job overview

Band 8A

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Pre-Treatment Expert Practitioner in CCC. They will work as part of a wider group of Expert Practitioners throughout the radiotherapy department. Expert Practitioners are required to have excellent leadership, communication, organisation and time management skills.

• Act as an expert practitioner, providing expert technical advice in specialist technical area
• Responsible for managing day to day workload and working hours across the pre- treatment service.
• Responsible for day to day staff management across the pre-treatment service.
• Responsible for the implementation of policy across the pre- treatment service.
• Responsible for suggesting and implementing service development across the pre-treatment service.

Working for our organisation

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

• Kind
• Empowered
• Responsible
• Inclusive

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Radiotherapy
• HCPC registration as Therapy Radiographer
• Qualification to MSc level in related subject
• Evidence of current and relevant CPD

• Management qualification / study

Knowledge

• Up to date knowledge of current technologies in Radiotherapy
• Knowledge of current treatment techniques and developments
• Significant knowledge in a specialist area of Radiotherapy

• Knowledge of current Health Service and Oncology specific legislation/plans

Experience

• Significant experience of managing teams including managing recruitment, performance, attendance and disciplinary issues
• Significant and broad experience as a therapeutic radiographer
• Significant experience of multi-disciplinary working

• Experience of managing and implementing change
• Experience in a large radiotherapy department
• First line human resource management experience