Deputy Head of Radiotherapy Treatment Planning PhysicsNHS
Job summary
The Radiotherapy Physics team at Barts is looking for a highly experienced Radiotherapy Clinical Scientist and Medical Physics Expert with a passion for Treatment Planning to join the team as a Band 8B Principal Clinical Scientist. The successful candidate will work with significant autonomy, reporting into the Head of Treatment Planning and taking a lead role within treatment planning, with a team of 12 dosimetrists and 3 other physicists. They will also work as a member of the integrated team in other aspects of the department, maintaining their skills and experience across the broad range of Radiotherapy Physics.
The Radiotherapy Department has 5 TrueBeam linacs with Hypersight OBI, RapidArc and Gating facilities. Two have 6DoF couches and HyperArc for SRS. External Beam Treatment Planning is carried out on Eclipse v18 and other software includes RadFormation Autocontour and PerFraction SunCheck. The department has a busy stereotactic programme and ambitious plans for the future. This post will strengthen the team for the programme ahead, which includes commissioning a new Ethos, implementing online adaptive radiotherapy, SGRT, RapidArc Dynamic and further automating treatment planning with RapidPlan, RadFormation Autocontour and Aria Core Insights.
Proposed Interview date 23/09/2026
Main duties of the job
The department is an accredited training department for STP and HSST Programmes and has a very successful track record for actively supporting physicists in submitting their portfolio for MPE registration with RPA2000. We are also leading the way in sustainability, becoming the first radiotherapy department to achieve the RCR Green Framework gold award.
Support the Head of Treatment Planning to manage the provision of the Treatment Planning service to Radiotherapy by providing scientific expertise and driving development of clinical radiotherapy physics. Play a leading part in the research and development programme for the department.Undertake complex treatment planning and checking for the full range of treatment techniques including IMRT, VMAT, SRS, SABR, TBI, conformal, superficial and adaptive radiotherapy.
Manage and lead parts of the planning service as agreed with the Head of Treatment Planning and have responsibility for commissioning treatment planning systems and related software.Lead innovations as a major part of the role, working with multidisciplinary teams and supervising a range of scientific staff. Maintain an awareness of developments in the field of radiotherapy and radiotherapy physics and seek to introduce innovative practice into clinical use.
Job description
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.