At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a dynamic radiotherapy team, ensuring high-quality patient care and operational excellence.
- Company: Join Icon Cancer Centre, a leading integrated healthcare provider with a global reach.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days annual leave, life assurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing programme.
- Other info: Be part of a supportive culture that values collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in cancer care while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: HCPC registration and a BSc or MSc in Radiotherapy required.
The predicted salary is between 40950 - 50050 £ per year.
Location: Icon Cancer Centre North East (Newcastle)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time (Mon-Fri, 37.5 hrs per week)
Role Overview
This is a great opportunity for an experienced and motivated Radiation Therapist to step into a clinical lead role, providing leadership and operational oversight within a radiotherapy unit at our specialist cancer centre. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, efficient and high-quality delivery of radiotherapy services, while supporting team development, technical excellence, and service innovation. We are looking for a HCPC-registered professional with a BSc or MSc in Radiotherapy, significant post-qualification experience and strong leadership and people management capability. The ideal candidate will bring advanced technical expertise across radiotherapy processes, excellent communication and organisational skills, and a patient-centred approach. You will be a visible and approachable clinical leader, confident in decision-making, resilient in a fast-paced environment, and committed to continuous improvement, safety and delivering exceptional patient care.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead and manage the radiotherapy team and department, ensuring high-quality, safe and efficient service delivery across the unit.
- Provide technical expertise, supervision and training to staff, promoting best practice, professional development and high performance.
- Oversee operational delivery, including workforce planning, workflow management, equipment use and performance monitoring.
- Drive quality improvement, safety and service development initiatives, supporting governance, innovation and continuous enhancement of patient care and experience.
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 Newcastle. The facility is custom-built and will provide state of the art oncology services to our patients. The centre will offer the following services:
- Radiotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Diagnostic Services
The centre is based in Bedlington, just north of Newcastle.
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.
Icon Group was established in 2015 and the businesses that form Icon have been pillars of the Australian and ASEAN healthcare community for decades. In 2024, Icon expanded into the UK by bringing Pharmaxo Group into the Icon family, alongside a strategic partnership with Nuffield Health and its first cancer centre in Wimbledon, Icon Cancer Centre London. In 2025, we announced our strategic partnership with Evidia in Germany.
With our operations expanding across the globe, this role offers a valuable opportunity to join the team and make an impact. At the heart of Icon, there is a clear set of values that guide how we work, make decisions and support one another every day. We are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful and collaborative environment where everyone can thrive and contribute their best. When you join our team, you’ll be a part of a culture that not only talks about its values, but brings them to life in a meaningful way.
Next Steps
For more information about our recruitment process, please see the attached Candidate guidance.
Closing Date: 03/09/2026
Lead Radiation Therapist employer: Pharmaxo Healthcare
At Cancer Centre London, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through opportunities for advancement, such as the potential to step into a National Physics Lead role as part of our UK expansion. Located in a vibrant city, we offer a supportive environment where you can make a meaningful impact in the field of Nuclear Medicine and PET-CT.
