Medical Physicist 29291

Job Description

The Medical Physicist maintains optimal, safe and effective patient care with regard to diagnosis and radiation treatment. All 6 DPN Radiation Oncology Centers are ASTRO APEx accredited and our cancer program is MD Anderson credentialed.

Required Education and/ or Experience: All of the following must be met.

• The Medical Physicist position requires a Master's degree in physics, medical physics, nuclear engineering, biophysics; doctorate.
• Certification in Therapeutic Medical Physics or equivalent by the American Board of Radiology, The American Board of Medical Physics, or The Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine.
• The Medical Physicist position also requires a minimum of two years’ clinical experience in a major radiation center.

Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm. No weekends, evenings, or holidays! Work/life balance schedules.

• Full-time employees are eligible for health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Company holidays and a flexible holiday!
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) Package.
• Additional accrual increase after 1 year of service.
• 401K.
• Scrub Allotments.
• Yearly Bonus Program.

Core Value Expectations: The CARES model reflects the principles that guide our day-to-day behaviors; our decisions, our actions, and our relationships with each other and with the patients and families we serve. All DPN employees are expected to embrace and demonstrate the following:

• COMPASSION: we show compassion for others.
• ACCOUNTABILITY: we hold ourselves accountable for our actions.
• RESPECT: we show respect for others.
• EXCELLENCE: we strive for excellence in all that we do.
• SERVICE: we provide outstanding service to our patients, team members, and community.

Additionally, as DPN is a service-oriented organization, all DPN employees are expected to embrace and demonstrate the following when interacting with patients, employees, and other customers:

• Smile, make eye contact, and greet with energy!
• Restate what you are hearing. Listen patiently and compassionately to complaints. Our patients and families are likely going through a difficult time. Irritability on their part is not about you.
• Give full attention. Turn away from the computer screen and face the person you are conversing with.
• Explain any potential delays in service and provide frequent updates.
• Empathize (feel empathy for someone).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Determines relative dosimetry characteristics for various types of radiation (high energy x-rays, electrons, etc.) and radiation-producing equipment.
• Final review of treatment plans.
• Oversees treatment planning system, plans, and Isodose verification.
• Provides technical direction for radiation therapy.
• Computes and verifies tumor dose and establishes and monitors basic dosage.
• Provides linear accelerator beam analysis, periodic calibration, and maintenance.
• Assists in evaluation of diagnostic and treatment modalities to maximize patient benefit.
• Participates in treatment planning, patient monitoring, and accuracy of delivery.
• Participates in patient-specific QA.
• Leads technology assessment, planning, and purchase of major equipment. Equipment, software, and systems acceptance testing and commissioning.
• Follows all health care privacy and safety rules and adheres to our Core Values.
• Other duties as assigned.