Sarah Smizz

Qualified Radiotherapist (in 2016) @Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Leeds, GB

3 years of clinical placement where I completed clinical competencies to become a HCPC Registered Therapeutic Radiographer. I finished my training here in June 2016.Within this role I developed skills, understanding and confidence in all aspects of radiation oncology care - from radiation protection, QA, IGRT, SBRT, image matching, Pre-treatment, brachytherapy, radio-surgery, MRI, patient information, treatment set-up, treatment quality checks, treatment delivery, after-care, side-effects management, data-prep, planning radiotherapy treatment plans, etc.Over the 3 years of my training I also developed my person centered and compassionate care skills, leadership, enhanced research into patient information for radiotherapy, created the first radiotherapy patient information smartphone app (RADCARE), A-Z Comic of Radiotherapy handbook, RONCrg twitter revision group for radiotherapy students, started the RAD conference, started the national Radiotherapy Story project and much more. After my time at Leeds I won- mHabitat PDD Award for Most Innovative Student Driven Healthcare Tool for RADCARE (2015)- National Society of Radiographers Student Therapeutic Radiographer of the year 2016- Best Student Poster Presentation at The Annual Radiotherapy Conference

Sheffield Hallam University

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Sheffield Hallam University

First-class honors Master

Sheffield Hallam University

Bachelor of Science (BSc)