Principal Radiotherapy Physicist (Swindon Satellite)

A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Band 8A Principal Radiotherapy Physicist

The job overview should read

"This Band 8A post is an opportunity for a skilled, motivated Physicist. In this role, you will lead and contribute to a variety of projects and routine clinical work in Radiotherapy Physics. You will be a HCPC registered Clinical Scientist and you will be expected to work towards submission of a RPA2000 MPE certification portfolio."

Applicants must have wide-ranging skills across most areas of

Radiotherapy Physics

treatment planning and treatment planning systems; equipment quality control and commissioning; dosimetry; imaging; quality assurance systems and IT systems. The post-holder will be allocated projects according to their skills and current departmental priorities, some of which may involve external R&D collaboration with the University of Oxford and other partners.

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 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 University of Oxford and an expanding portfolio of clinical trials.

This role takes a supported lead with managing and undertaking the physics service for the radiotherapy satellite at Great Western Hospital (GWH), Swindon. The post holder will need to have wide ranging skills across most areas within

Radiotherapy Physics

treatment planning and treatment planning systems; equipment quality control; dosimetry; imaging; quality assurance systems; information systems.

See attached job description for details.

This advert closes on Sunday 10 May 2026

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