Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust • Oxford OX3 7LJ
About this role
A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Radiotherapy Physics Group is responsible for providing a specialist clinical scientific service to the Oncology Department of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Functions include
carrying out patient radiotherapy treatment planning and checking; advising clinical and radiography staff on the physics of radiotherapy; performing pre-treatment patient-specific dosimetric QA, measuring patient-received doses and radiotherapy treatment equipment output, including calibration; ensuring the safety of patients and staff in a hazardous environment which includes exposure to very high levels of ionising radiation; ensuring equipment is operating safely and effectively and investigating complex faults; and the evaluation, selection, procurement, installation, acceptance testing and calibration of high value equipment.
The post holder will be lead Technologist, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, for the provision of a clinical service in Radiotherapy Physics, primarily in a nominated specialist area (e.g. stereotactic radiotherapy, training & development) of treatment planning and associated areas. The post holder will lead, manage and train other Radiotherapy Physics staff, particularly technologists in treatment planning.
The OUH Radiotherapy Centre at the Churchill Hospital is a five linac, all-Varian (including Halcyon, TrueBeam) site with CT-sim, ARIA, Eclipse and HDR brachytherapy unit. Our existing satellite centre in Swindon operates a further two linacs and a CT-sim. A second satellite centre in Milton Keynes operating a single linac and CT-sim opened in 2025. Supporting systems include AI auto-contouring and RadCalc. We have a modern suite of treatment planning functionality including RapidPlan, MCO, HyperArc and Velocity, and we treat with a wide variety of techniques including SRS/SRT and SABR. We have a range of development work underway and on the horizon and also an active computing team working to develop software and scripts for automation and data analysis. We have close links with the CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology and an expanding portfolio of clinical trials.
The post holder will be lead Technologist, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, for the provision of a clinical service in Radiotherapy Physics, primarily in a nominated specialist area (e.g. stereotactic radiotherapy, training & development) of treatment planning and associated areas. The post holder will lead, manage and train other Radiotherapy Physics staff, particularly technologists in treatment planning.
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This advert closes on Tuesday 19 May 2026
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