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This is an opportunity to secure yourself a permanent Supervisor Radiation Therapist position in a highly respected Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre, establishing your career within a team who make a big impact on the place where they work.
Tasmanian Health Service
Supervisor Radiation Therapist Level 4
Permanent Fulltime
To be Tasmanian is to value quality over quantity. We create, preserve, and protect the unusual. With passion and perseverance, with an embrace of our history and our stories, we quietly pursue the extraordinary. Could you be Tasmanian?
In Tasmania you will be encouraged to be yourself, to learn, to grow and to develop meaning in your work. You will have a powerful connection to your patients and your colleagues, and the community will encourage your success. Our isolation helps drive a culture of creation and human connection, which feels both old fashioned and… like the only future worth pursuing.
This is an opportunity to secure yourself a permanent position in a highly respected Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre, establishing your career within a team who make a big impact on the place where they work.
Here you’ll be spoilt for choice when it comes to breath-taking coastlines, National Parks, and incredible fresh produce crafted by locals. After a hard day at work, you don’t sit in traffic for an hour. You decompress with a relaxed walk through your beautiful home city, or you put on your boots and tell it to a mountain.
We offer an inclusive and rewarding place to work, featuring contemporary, evidence-informed practice that sees our Radiation Therapists as a key component of the broader multidisciplinary team who guide patients through the entirety of their treatment journey. We provide External Beam Radiotherapy, seamless Varian planning to treatment using 2 Matched Truebeam Linacs and the Statewide High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Service.
The RoleThe Supervisor Radiation Therapist will assume a leadership role in supervising and maintaining the professional and technical standards and operations within either the radiation therapy treatment team or the CT/planning team.
They will actively promote team collaboration, effective leadership, and clear communication among Radiation Therapists to guarantee the delivery of treatment and planning services at superior levels of patient care while fostering elevated staff morale.
Note: - Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.
Further information on the Northern Cancer Service is available on our website: Northern Cancer Service – Northern Cancer Service (health.tas.gov.au)
Position Features: There is an expectation that the staff member may be required to work for or a other sites of the Northern Cancer Service.
The Team
The team you will be joining is a friendly and motivated team who exhibit a strong culture of collegiality. You can expect to enjoy a high degree of cooperation and cohesion both within the Northern Cancer Service and more broadly across the hospital's various specialities. The Northern Cancer Service remains focused on our values of integrity, innovation, collaboration and compassion.
Details of Appointment
Permanent, full time, day worker (with on-call) position working 76 hours per fortnight, working a 9-day fortnight. Commencing from 8 April 2024
*notwithstanding hours may be negotiated with the successful applicant
Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time and part time vacancies.
Salary: $138,322 to $145,824 per annum. Our Employer 11% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount.
You’ll have access to salary package a range of benefits including living expenses up to $9,010 + $2,650 in meal entertainment each FBT year + other benefits if eligible.
Salary range is in accordance with Radiation Therapists Agreement 2022
Eligibility:
Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria:
Tertiary qualification/program of study approved by the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia
Registered with the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia
*Registration/licences that are essential requirements of this role must remain current and valid at all times whilst employed in this role and the status of these may be checked at any time during employment. It is the employee’s responsibility to ensure that registration/licences remain current and to advise the Employer if their circumstances change. This includes notifying the Employer if a registration/licence is revoked, cancelled or has its conditions altered.
Applicants should note the following criteria are desirable:
Relevant postgraduate qualifications
The Head of the State Service has determined that the person nominated for this job is to satisfy a pre‑employment check before taking up the appointment, on promotion or transfer. The following checks are to be conducted:
Conviction checks in the following areas:
crimes of violence
sex related offences
serious drug offences
crimes involving dishonesty
Identification check
Disciplinary action in previous employment check.
How to Apply
Apply Online. Please click the "Apply" button on this screen. This ensures important questions about you are answered.
You will be prompted to complete a 1-2 page application outlining your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the attached Statement of Duties.
Please note:
We do not require a separate statement addressing the selection criteria.
All attachments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
Referee details are submitted as part of the online application so make sure you have the contact details of two referees before applying.
Download the Statement of Duties and any Associated Documents
We encourage you to review the Applicant Guide, Statement of Duties, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and selection criteria.
Statement of Duties
Generic Supervisor Radiation Therapist RT4a (July 2023) CSU.pdf
Generic Supervisor Radiation Therapist RT4a (July 2023) CSU.docx
Applicant Guide
Department of Health - Applicant Guide June 22.pdf
Department of Health - Applicant Guide June 22.docx
For more information
Natalie Kidd
Position: Chief Radiation Therapist/Manager - Northern Cancer ServicePhone: (03) 6777 6159E-mail: natalie.kidd@ths.tas.gov.au
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