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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Career Grade/ Lead Clinical Scientist

The closing date is 15 November 2026

Job Summary

The Radiotherapy Physics Group at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) is looking for an experienced registered radiotherapy Medical Physics Expert to join our team.

NCCC runs services at both the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle and Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle and provides a highly specialised clinical service for the treatment of cancer patients. The successful candidate will be based primarily at the Freeman Hospital but would be required to work occasionally in the Carlisle site.

- Interview Date Friday 11 December 2026
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

Main duties of the job

As the successful candidate you will contribute to the whole range of our clinical service but will play a major role supporting the treatment planning team. You will be able to demonstrate leadership skills, including leading on a major project and show that you can provide clinical, scientific and technical advice to a wide range of other skilled groups including clinical, technical and managerial staff both within and outside of NCCC. Proven experience in treatment planning and associated activities is essential.

About Us

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.



If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting‐edge care (supported by state‐of‐the‐art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Details

Date posted 23 October 2026

Pay scheme Agenda for change

Band Band 8a

Salary £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum

Contract Permanent

Working pattern Full‐time

Reference number 317‐2026‐43‐03‐DR

Job locations Freeman Hospital 317 01 Freeman Hospital NE7 7DN United Kingdom





Job Description

Job responsibilities

The NCCC is one of the leading radiotherapy centres in the UK. Our current equipment fleet includes 10 Varian TrueBeams, 3 Siemens CT scanners, a dedicated MR scanner, Flexitron HDR brachytherapy unit and a superficial unit. Our range of advanced treatment methods includes SRS, SABR, VMAT, IMRT, TBI, TSEI and SGRT. We have recently introduced HyperSight imaging on our newest linacs and are developing our on‐line adaptive radiotherapy processes across a range of treatments using our primary TPS, RayStation. We were the first to use MR‐Only planning for radiotherapy and one of the few radiotherapy centres with a dedicated MR scanner. We have a strong and developing brachytherapy service and our growing computing group is a national leader in automation and automated treatment planning.

NCCC is a reference site for advanced SRS practices with Brainlab Elements and we have an excellent culture of clinical trials involvement. We have a strong teaching pedigree linked with Newcastle University, delivering the national STP academic MSc course, oncologist FRCR teaching and local STP and Route‐2 physicist training.

- You will have a significant role in managing aspects of the treatment planning service, providing physics support to our team of 26 treatment planners, supporting the commissioning of new techniques and software upgrades and taking responsibility for specific treatment sites.
- You will contribute to a wide range of radiotherapy physics clinical and scientific services, including planning, imaging, brachytherapy, radiobiology and radiation protection.
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