Medical Physicist, II

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Join our radiation oncology physics team as a Medical Physicist II, providing clinical physics support for external beam, special procedures, and brachytherapy across a multi-site outpatient cancer care network. You'll calibrate and maintain treatment and imaging equipment, support treatment planning and delivery, and work alongside physicians, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists to keep every treatment safe and precise.

What you'll do:

1. Perform calibrations and quality management measurements on treatment, simulation, and treatment planning equipment according to established protocols, policies, and regulations.
2. Provide physics support for external beam radiation therapy, including 3D conformal, IMRT, VMAT, electron, SRS, SRT, SBRT, and surface-guided radiation therapy.
3. Participate in all aspects of special procedures beyond conventional linear accelerator treatments, such as robotic radiosurgery, and of HDR and LDR brachytherapy.
4. Perform routine patient chart checks and make-up treatment calculations.
5. Record and analyze measurement results, take corrective action, and investigate and resolve questionable results promptly.
6. Acquire and review dosimetric data used for treatment planning and commissioning.
7. Assist in the design and fabrication of patient treatment aids.
8. Support the radiation protection program and regulatory compliance, including surveys, tests, and required records.
9. Help develop calibration and quality management procedures and train staff on them.
10. Provide physics cross-coverage and travel between clinic locations as needed.
11. Participate in departmental didactics and the clinical training of medical physics residents.

Work arrangement: Work-from-home flexibility is available with prior approval, provided clinical coverage is maintained safely and a signed work-from-home agreement is in place. Unplanned in-person attendance may be required based on clinical needs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

1. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
2. The employee regularly is required to stand, walk, sit, use hand to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
3. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
This position involves potential exposure to infectious diseases. Team members are offered appropriate vaccinations and safety training.

This position is a Safety Sensitive Position and cannot be filled by a candidate who is a current user of medical marijuana. The essential functions, physical demands, and mental competencies of this job require the employee maintain the ability to work in a constant state of alertness in a safe manner.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, LICENSURE, REGISTRATION:

1. Master's degree in medical or radiological physics, or in a physical science with two additional years of post-graduate work in medical physics.
2. Board eligible or certified by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) in Therapeutic Medical Physics, or certified by an equivalent body.
3. Completion of a CAMPEP-accredited residency program, or a minimum of 2 years of similar work experience if a CAMPEP residency program was not completed.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

1. Ability to operate, calibrate, and analyze data from linear accelerators, CT simulators, treatment planning systems, brachytherapy systems, and dosimetry and radiation survey instrumentation.
2. Working knowledge of SRS, SBRT, and HDR and LDR brachytherapy physics.
3. Ability to commission treatment planning systems and generate treatment plans with photon and electron beams.
4. Ability to develop and implement clinical procedures from current literature and AAPM task group reports, and to train staff on them.
5. Ability to travel between clinic locations.