CARTI is an independent, not-for-profit cancer care provider. CARTI is recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by the Workforce Research Group! CARTI treats more than 35,000 patients each year from every county in Arkansas, and across the country. CARTI’s vision is to be THE cancer treatment destination and our mission is to make trusted cancer care accessible for every patient we serve through compassion, innovation, and purpose. Our team of expert providers treats all types of adult cancer and blood disorders with a full spectrum of treatment modalities, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, as well as diagnostic radiology. Our team of high-caliber medical physicists works alongside our radiation oncologists to offer patients a full range of treatment options within a single network of coordinated care.

This is an exciting time to join CARTI! CARTI is rapidly expanding with some of the newest and exciting technology.  We currently have a great group of experienced physicists and dosimetrists, but if we are going to expand to the degree we intend, we could use your help in El Dorado and Searcy locations!  We currently have 7 experienced physicists, 3 physics residents, 10 dosimetrists, and 11 radiation oncologists over 7 different centers around Arkansas.  We are currently in the process of designing a new center. We have 8 Varian linear accelerators; all but one is TrueBeam.  One Cyberknife S7.  We are running Aria record and Verify along with Eclipse 16 for our treatment planning system.  We have an active HDR and LDR brachytherapy program as well.  We have a large array of QA equipment from Sun Nuclear, Standard Imaging, and iba. We also have a growing imaging department performing Y90 (Sirtex), and L-177 (Lutathera).  We also have a 1.5 T and 3 T MRI, multiple diagnostic CTs, PET/CTs, gamma cameras, 3D Mammography, and much more.

Come join our team! Arkansas is known as “the Natural State” with 17.2 million acres of forests and 9,700 miles of streams and rivers. It’s an oasis and you would have access to biking, golf, running, exploring trails, fishing, and many other outdoor activities. El Dorado and Searcy can provide you and your family with the perfect blend of big city living with no traffic, shops, restaurants, and nightlife options with beautiful scenery, and down-home southern charm.

*Sign-on bonus available.

JOB SUMMARY: 

This position is responsible for conducting an ongoing program for all Medical Physics duties CARTI-wide including, but not limited to, calibration, use, and quality assurance of radiation therapy treatment, simulation, and planning equipment in treatment planning and dosimetry.  The CARTI Medical Physicist upholds corporate and departmental core values and philosophies.  The CARTI Medical Physicist shows compassion for patients and staff, ownership, and resolute teamwork for CARTI functions and philosophy by being an integral part of the CARTI clinical team and participating in clinical duties as needed.

SPECIFIC JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. This position involves periodic travel between CARTI clinics to perform Medical Physics related duties as described in this document.
2. Involved directly in External Beam, Brachytherapy, SBRT, SGRT, SRS and other Radiation Therapy functions as appropriate in the Medical Physics scope of practice defined by AAPM.
3. Maintains the Code of Ethics as defined by AAPM and abides by the CARTI Corporate Compliance policy.
4. Performs calibrations and quality assurance measurements on all treatment and planning equipment according to established guidelines, records and analyzes results of measurements, takes corrective actions as needed and reports results to Lead Physicist.
5. Gathers, analyzes and periodically reviews data needed for planning and delivering patient treatments, processes data for use on computer, calibrations, or manually, upon approval by the Lead Physicist.
6. Participates in developing calibration and quality assurance guidelines and schedules.
7. Assists in maintaining quality assurance, calibration, data acquisition equipment and devices in good condition and current calibration.
8. Provides direct supervision to dosimetrists and assists in routine checks of patient charts for accuracy and proper documentation according to established guidelines; performs needed make-up treatment calculations.
9. Assists in the institutional radiation protection program and in maintaining compliance with regulatory agencies as requested by the Radiation Safety Officer, including performing routine surveys, calibrations, checks, tests and maintaining required records according to current license conditions.
10. Provides direct supervision and assists in the design and fabrication of patient treatment aids.
11. Performs departmental physics consultation services to outside facilities as directed by the lead physicist.
12. Maintains patient confidentiality.
13. Maintains a positive work climate and the overall team effort of the department and CARTI.
14. Performs related responsibilities as required or directed.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, LICENSURE, REGISTRATION: 

1. Master’s Degree in medical or radiological physics or in the physical sciences with an additional one year of postgraduate study in medical physics
2. Certified by the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Physics.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES:           

1. Minimum of one-year work experience post completion of a CAMPEP residency program or a minimum of 3 years work experience if a CAMPEP residency program was not completed.
2. Ability to use, operate, calibrate, collect and analyze data from or with clinical linear accelerators, treatment simulators, treatment planning computers, treatment block fabrication systems, dosimetry, and calibration instrumentation and devices, radiation survey and measurement instrumentation, and brachytherapy systems.
3. Working knowledge of dosimetry and calibration instrumentation and devices, and radiation survey and measurement instrumentation.
4. Ability to acquire dosimetric data and use it to commission treatment planning systems; and the ability to generate treatment plans with both high and low energy photon and electron beams Experience with SRS, SBRT, and HDR and LDR special procedures.
5. Working knowledge of medical linear accelerators and auxiliary systems, such as Record and verify systems.
6. Working knowledge of modern imaging systems (e.g. CT, MRI, and PET) that are directly tied to radiation oncology planning and practice.
7. Ability to independently develop and implement new procedures and train staff.
8. Ability to analyze available literature, task group reports, etc. to develop these clinical procedures; and then effectively communicate them to clinical staff.
9. Ability to maintain a collegial and professional relationship with the rest of the physics staff; and carry that same relationship to other CARTI departments.

The CARTI DIFFERENCE:

• Through our statewide network of cancer care providers and treatment locations, we ensure that all Arkansans have access to world-class cancer treatment in or close to the communities where they live.
• We treat all known forms of adult cancer and blood disorders through chemotherapy, surgical oncology and radiation therapy.
• All CARTI physicians are board-certified, including the American Board of Radiology, the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Medical Oncology and the American Board of Diagnostic Radiology.
• CARTI’s hematology/oncology division is accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) for nuclear medicine in Oncologic and Neurologic PET Imaging and in the area of Skeletal, Gastrointestinal and Equilibrium Radionuclide Angiography.
• As a not-for-profit, CARTI is governed by a community board of directors, with all of the profits generated being put back into our operation, which allows us to reinvest in cancer care in our community.