Senior Radiation Therapist in Newport

Location: Icon Cancer Centre South Wales (Newport)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full & Part Time Opportunities Available (Mon-Fri)

Role Overview

Join Icon Cancer Centre and play a key role in delivering exceptional, patient-centred, cancer care within a leading private radiotherapy service. As an RT, you will support the Lead RT in maintaining the highest professional, technical and safety standards across both treatment and pre-treatment areas. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will rotate through the planning suite and treatment units, carrying out radiotherapy planning, image-guided treatment verification and treatment delivery using advanced radiotherapy techniques. You will provide compassionate support and clear communication to patients throughout their treatment journey, while contributing to quality assurance, clinical governance, audit, training and service development activities. This role would suit a compassionate and motivated Therapeutic RT who is passionate about delivering outstanding patient care and is keen to develop their expertise within an advanced radiotherapy environment. You will thrive in a collaborative team setting, enjoy working in a fast-paced clinical environment, and be confident balancing high technical standards with a patient-focused approach. We are looking for someone with strong communication and organisational skills, a commitment to quality and safety, and a genuine enthusiasm for learning new technologies and techniques.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Deliver safe and effective radiotherapy treatments and pre-treatment imaging, ensuring excellent patient care, clear communication, and adherence to IR(ME)R 2017 regulations and departmental protocols.
• Support the day-to-day operation of the planning suite and treatment units, assisting the Lead Radiographer with service delivery, equipment management, complex procedures, and the implementation of new technique.
• Maintain high standards of quality, safety and clinical governance, contributing to quality assurance activities, audits, protocol development, and compliance with regulatory and professional standards.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and contribute to continuous improvement, participating in training, sharing best practice, and keeping up to date with advances in radiotherapy technology and treatment techniques.

Benefits

• Annual Leave: We offer 25 days + bank holidays (increasing to 27 days after 3 years' service).
• Salary Sacrifice Pension: We offer an auto-enrolment pension from day 1 with a standard contribution of 5% employee, and 4% employer. You can also opt to enhance your contribution to 6%, to which the employer will also contribute 6%.
• Life Assurance: We offer a life assurance scheme equivalent to 3 x your annual salary.
• Wellbeing: The wellbeing of our people is extremely important to us, and we therefore offer an enhanced Employee Assistance Programme which offers holistic wellbeing support from fully accredited counsellors and psychotherapists, in the form of on-demand advice and counselling for our people and their immediate family.
• Reward & Recognition: All staff have access to our 'Ignite' benefits platform where you will have instant access to savings, cashback and reloadable vouchers for hundreds of leading retailers and brands.

Location: Icon UK are proud to be opening a Cancer Centre in Newport, South Wales. The facility is custom-built and will provide state of the art oncology services to our patients.

Company Introduction

Icon is a leading integrated healthcare provider with global reach across Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN, the United Kingdom and Germany. The Group is built on a strong but simple mission – to deliver the best care possible, to as many people as possible, as close to home as possible. We bring together all aspects of comprehensive cancer care, including medical oncology, radiation oncology, haematology, pharmacy, chemotherapy and sterile compounding, research and theranostics to deliver a true end-to-end seamless service for cancer patients internationally.

Next Steps

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