Requisition ID: 52154

Location: Presence St Joseph Chicago

Location Address:
2900 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60657 United States (US)

Daily Hours: 8
Standard Hours: 40
Employment Status: Full-time
Employment Type: Regular
Shift: Day
FLSA: E

SUMMARY

The Medical Physicist is responsible for assuring the high quality radiation therapy through participation in Linac QA, Radiation Treatment planning, brachytherapy, image guided radiotherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, stereotactic body radiotherapy, radioisotopes, consultation, and educational activities



ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Assure the safe and effective delivery of radiation to achieve a diagnostic or therapeutic result as prescribed in patient care. Performs and supervises the pertinent procedures necessary to achieve this objective.

2. Protecting the patient and others from potentially harmful or excessive radiation; establishment of adequate protocols to ensure accurate patient dosimetry; the measurement and characterization of radiation; the determination of delivered dose; advancement of procedures necessary to ensure image quality; development and direction in optimizing the balance between the beneficial and deleterious effects of radiation.

3. Primary duties include machine calibration, physics QA, weekly chart checks, LDR & HDR brachytherapy, clinical treatment planning, member radiation safety committee, and assistance with commissioning of new equipment.

4. Provides surveys, reports, and consultation related to radiation safety for applicable facilities and/or patients that meet the organizations and regulatory standards

5. Develops and implements quality assurance and evaluation programs for applicable radiation therapy equipment that ensure high quality images and radiation treatments and that meet regulatory requirements

6. Monitors and reports quality assurance activities to ensure the adherence to established QA policies and procedures.

7. Evaluates and reports the performance of equipment in a timely manner and makes recommendations to improve quality. Maintains up-to-date technical knowledge of new and developing technologies and regulatory issues to support clinical and administrative decision makers.

8. Provides in-service training to staff and physicians, as necessary, to ensure high quality images and radiation treatments, a radiation safe environment, and compliance with regulatory standards.

This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. Other duties may be assigned.

Other Responsibilities:

• Participates in the quarterly radiation safety committee meetings.

• Adheres to downtime procedures.

• Adheres to established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.

• Performs both essential and non-essential job functions in a safe manner as identified by Presence Health.

• Demonstrates an understanding of and models the mission and core values of Presence Health through behavior and attitude.

• Enhances professional growth and development by accessing educational programs, job related literature, in-service meetings, and workshops/seminars.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• General knowledge of medical radiation physics, medical radiation safety, and pertinent regulations

• Experience in designing, implementing, and monitoring quality assurance programs in the therapeutic radiological physics subspecialty

• Good communication skills, demonstrated customer service skills and willingness to be part of a team

• Additional qualifications specific to Radiation Oncology

• Experience performing calibration of radiation therapy equipment (high-energy accelerators-electrons and photons)

• Brachytherapy experience-both LDR and HDR

• Treatment planning experience- 2-D, 3-D, IMRT, SRS, SBRT

• Treatment planning software-Eclipse

• Experience in linear accelerator commissioning, high dose rate delivery systems

• General knowledge of computers and their applications in radiation oncology

• Development of equipment specifications for radiation therapy treatment, brachytherapy, simulation, and radiation detection

• Development of procedures for the initial and continuing evaluation of radiation therapy treatment, brachytherapy, simulation, and radiation detection equipment

• Provision of evidence of compliance of equipment for radiation therapy treatment, brachytherapy, simulation, and radiation detection, with regulatory and accreditation agency rules and recommendations

• Measurement and characterization of medical radiation from radiation therapy treatment, brachytherapy, and simulation equipment prior to clinical utilization

• Acceptance testing, evaluation and commissioning of equipment used for external-beam therapy, brachytherapy, simulation, treatment-planning, and radiation detection; acceptance testing and evaluation of their associated computer systems, algorithms, data, and output

• Evaluation of radiation oncology technical procedures prior to clinical use

• Development and/or evaluation, with the medical practitioner, of policies and procedures related to the appropriate therapeutic use of radiation

• Development and/or evaluation, with the medical practitioner, of the dosimetric component of patients' treatment plans

• Review of radiation oncology dosimetry information noted in patient electronic records

• Development and management of a comprehensive Quality Management Program that monitors, evaluates, and optimizes radiation oncology processes

• Development and/or evaluation of a comprehensive clinical radiation safety program in radiation oncology

• Direction of the Radiation Oncology Physics team to include the technical directions of staff responsible for treatment planning, machine maintenance, and repair and other physics support staff

• Provision of consultation on patient or personnel radiation dose and associated risks

• Provision of consultation to assure accurate radiation dose delivery

• Provision of institutional consultation on program development in radiation oncology

• Planning and specification of thickness, material, and placement of shielding needed to protect patients, workers, the general public and the environment from radiation produced incident to diagnose or treatment of humans

• Assessment and evaluation of installed shielding designed to protect patients, workers, and the general public from radiation produced incident to diagnosis or treatment of humans

• Use of imaging procedures as they pertain to the simulation, treatment planning and treatment delivery in therapeutic radiologic procedures

• Involvement in informatics development and direction

• Other medical applications of physics as appropriate to safely carry out therapeutic radiologic procedures

• Medical Health Physics procedures associated with the practice of Therapeutic Radiology

Education and/or Experience

Minimum Master's Degree in Physics/Medical Physics PhD preferred

Certified by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) in Therapeutic Radiological Physics or Medical Physics or certified by the American Board of Medical Physics (ABMP) in Radiation Oncology Physics

5-7 years full time clinical experience

Computer Skills

Electronic medical record experience required

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

IEMA registration (Radiation Oncology) required

Certified the American Board of Radiology or American Board of Medical Physics

Business Unit: Presence St Joseph Hsp Chicago

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability