Clinical Research Doctor in Cancer Imaging

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is a full-time clinical research fellowship within the Department of Radiology at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, supporting the Trust’s cancer imaging research programme and the delivery of high-quality imaging response assessment for clinical trials.

The post is intended for a radiologist who is post-FRCR or equivalent, with full General Medical Council (GMC) registration or is eligible for full GMC registration. The successful candidate will contribute to clinical imaging, support Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)-related imaging research, as well as develop and provide expertise in Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (RECIST) and other response criteria within a specialist oncology centre.

Main duties of the job

  • Receive structured training in the Royal Marsden RECIST/imaging response assessment workflow, including use of local software systems and reporting processes.
  • Support the RECIST service.
  • Undertake baseline RECIST assessments and contribute to follow-up response assessments.
  • Review and advise on complex trial imaging queries, including lesion selection, new lesion assessment, target/non-target lesion interpretation, and response categorisation.
  • Participate in relevant clinical trials meetings, including the weekly RECIST meeting and other tumour-specific trial imaging meetings as required.

Person Specification

Status

Essential

  • Full registration and license to practice with the General Medical Council
  • FRCR or equivalent specialist radiology qualification.

Desirable

  • Post-CCT status
  • Higher degree or active interest in pursuing MD, PhD, or publication-based academic development.
  • Good Clinical Practice training

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in diagnostic radiology at senior trainee, or equivalent level.
  • Experience in oncological CT and MRI interpretation.

Desirable

  • Subspecialty experience in cancer imaging, including CT and MRI across multiple tumour types.
  • Prior experience of RECIST, iRECIST, Lugano, PCWG, or other structured imaging response criteria.

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability and willingness to work within a multi-disciplinary team
  • IT skills
  • Effective communicator with a wide range of audiences
  • Ability to make clinically sound imaging assessments and recognise when consultant input is required.

Desirable

  • Prior presentations, publications, audit, quality improvement, or grant involvement.
  • Experience with quantitative imaging, region-of-interest analysis, image segmentation, radiomics, diffusion-weighted MRI, perfusion imaging, or other imaging biomarker methods.
  • Experience of teaching radiographers, radiology trainees, fellows, or multidisciplinary colleagues.

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to work with radiographers, oncologists, trial teams, and imaging scientists.
  • Motivated to ensure the achievement of defined targets
  • Approachability
  • Enthusiasm
  • Commitment to personal and professional development
  • Willingness to teach and support radiographers, trainees, and other members of the clinical trials imaging team.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 2 August 2026

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