Graduate Trainee - Radiotherapy Technology (XR05)

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated computing/technology graduate to join our Clinical Computing team in Radiotherapy Technology Services for a fixed term of 3 years.

You will acquire skills in the specialist field of radiotherapy technology through formal and on-the-job training to ensure the safe and effective implementation, repair, and maintenance of clinical radiotherapy systems and technical infrastructure, including VMware, Citrix, Veeam, and Active Directory.

Our Clinical Computing team consists of 4 highly-skilled Clinical Technologists who are committed to enhancing patient safety through their technical expertise and knowledge of our high risk, critical radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery systems and workflows.

What makes our team unique is the wide scope of practice and diverse daily activities while collaborating with a large department of clinical and scientific staff. We focus on problem-solving that leads to meaningful improvements in our patients treatment experiences. This includes implementing innovative systems and cutting-edge systems, like AI-assisted treatment planning tools, to improve patient outcomes while reducing manual human intervention.

We face challenges that have real-world impacts, ultimately benefiting our patients. We offer training opportunities for your professional growth and invite applicants to contact us for a departmental visit and more details about this role.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role include:

- Complete the IPEM Clinical Technologist Training Scheme.

- Work as an operational member of the clinical computing team to build skills and knowledge to support the implementation and management of the following technologies:

- Radiotherapy pre-treatment and treatment delivery systems

- Specialised clinical applications

- Server operating systems and hardware

- Virtualisation and VMware

- Data storage technologies and backups

- Domain administration and group policy

- Maintain accurate, detailed, and timely records of own work for medical equipment maintenance and fault resolution on computerised equipment.

- Develop and update processes that are relevant to own area of expertise.

As training progresses, supervision will become less direct as you begin to work autonomously in aspects of the role where competence has been achieved.

On successful completion of the training programme, the jobholder is qualified to register as a clinical technologist, opening

About us

Radiotherapy Technology Services (RTS) is a group within the Radiotherapy Physics section of the Department of Medical Physics and Engineering at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. RTS staff collaborate with clinical and scientific users of radiotherapy equipment to provide equipment management and related technical services.

The four teams in RTS; Clinical Computing, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering and Technical Services, collaborate to carry out activity in multidisciplinary workgroups.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the UK. We are committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our staff helped to define the values and behaviours that we should work to so that we can achieve this vision. This has become known as The Leeds Way, and forms the foundation of our culture, our ethos and how we work every day.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.