Graduate Radiation Therapist (514310) - North

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Tasmanian Health Service

2024 New Graduate Permanent Fulltime Radiation Therapy Position - $87,422 per annum

$25,000 Scholarship Available

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?

You could start your Radiation Therapy career anywhere. What’s different about Tasmania is our culture and our lifestyle. 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, instead of sitting in traffic for an hour. You can decompress with a relaxed walk through the beautiful parks and rivers of your beautiful home city, or grab your bike and enjoy world class mountain bike tracks.

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 and we use 2 Matched Truebeam Linacs. We also provide the states only brachytherapy service as well as stereotactic treatment.

The W.P. Holman Clinic Launceston has a diverse team of passionate locals and new Tasmanian adventurers who will welcome your energy and experiences into the group dynamic. We’ll actively support your career development through dedicated education support, generous CPD allowance, and a teaching culture, embracing the fact that our service and community benefits through your ongoing growth.

Ben, our Deputy Chief Radiation Therapists, joined us from New South Wales in 2006 and has never looked back. He is most happy to hear from you to answer questions about his journey to Tasmania, and how he finds working in the health service and team.

For more information about becoming a Radiation Therapist in Launceston Tasmania, please contact Ben MacFarlane, our Deputy Chief Radiation Therapist via benjamin.macfarlane@ths.tas.gov.au or on (03) 6777 6140

Allied Health Scholarship Program

You will also have the opportunity to submit an Expression of Interest for one of our Allied Health Scholarships. The Allied Health Scholarship Program provides up to $25,000 to support the costs of studying. Scholarship recipients will receive $15,000 in Year 1 of the Program (2023-2024) and a further $10,000 in Year 4 of the Program, following completion of three years’ service with the Tasmanian Health Service (from 2026-2027). A limited number of scholarships are available and will be awarded on merit. Scholarship recipients must accept an offer of employment with the Tasmanian Health Service and sign a Scholarship Agreement. An offer of employment does not guarantee that a scholarship will be awarded. Please refer to the Allied Health Scholarship Program Guidelines for more information and complete the Expression of Interest Form. Please upload a copy of the Scholarship EOI Form as an additional document when submitting your application for employment.

Details of Appointment: Permanent, full-time, day time position, working 76 hours per fortnight commencing January 2024*
*or as soon as Ahpra registration is obtained)

Please note part-time may be negotiable with successful applicants

• 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.

Commencement Salary: $87,422 per annum* + 11% superannuation
*from first full pay period after the 1 December 2023

Salary Packaging: Access to a range of benefits including living expenses up to $9,010 + $2,650 in meal entertainment each FBT year

Relocation Assistance: Support for travel, relocation and initial accommodation costs may be negotiated

Professional Development: $1,000 per annum entitlement for professional development course fees (daily wage, flights, accommodation, daily allowance paid in addition to this)

Career Progression: Accelerate your career and access the RT Level 2 salary range via applying for accelerated competency progression after three years or competency progression after four years. Additional opportunity to progress to RT level 3 via the personal progression pathway

Eligibility:

Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria:

1. Registered with the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia

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:

1. Conviction checks in the following areas:

• crimes of violence
• sex related offences
• serious drug offences
• crimes involving dishonesty

2. Identification check
3. Disciplinary action in previous employment check.

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 Radiation Therapist (Statewide) RT1-2 (July 2023) CSU.pdf
• Generic Radiation Therapist (Statewide) RT1-2 (July 2023) CSU.docx

Applicant Guide

• Department of Health - Applicant Guide June 22.pdf
• Department of Health - Applicant Guide June 22.docx

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 detailing 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 in the Statement of Duties.
• 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.

For more information

Benjamin MacFarlane
Deputy Chief Radiation Therapist
Phone: (03) 6777 6140
E-mail: benjamin.macfarlane@ths.tas.gov.au

Important information

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