Medical Physicist - Therapeutic/Radiation Oncology
Trinity Health Grand Rapids
Application
Details
Posted: 05-Jul-23
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Type: Career Positions
Salary: $151,000 - $239,000
Categories:
Medical Physics: Radiation Oncology
Certifications:
Therapeutic Radiology (TR)
Sector:
Non-Profit
Hospital
Salary Details:
Offered rate depending on experience.
Required Education:
Masters
Additional Information:
Employer will assist with relocation costs.
The successful candidate will join a team of 2 full time physicists, 3 dosimetrists and 3 radiation oncologists in a department with growing SRS/SBRT and HDR programs.
Equipment includes a CyberKnife M6, Tomotherapy HDA, Flexitron HDR, Trubeam and Siemens Confidence CT-Sim. Treatment planning software includes Precision 3.3 for both CyberKnife and Tomotherapy, Eclipse 15.5 for Truebeam and Oncentra for HDR. MIM is used for complex registration and retreatment evaluation, Sun Nuclear DoseCHECK for secondary MU verification, and a full suite of Sun Nuclear QA tools.
What the Medical Physicist - Radiation Oncology will need:
Minimum: Master of Science degree in Medical Physics
Preferred: PhD in Medical Physics
Required: Board certified, or board eligible, by The American Board of Radiology or The American Board of Medical Physics.
*If board eligible, board exam shall be successfully passed within 18 months of hire.
What the Medical Physicist - Radiation Oncology will do:
Assists in planning for resource allocation with the rest of the radiation oncology team, including the following: equipment usage, selection and replacement, staffing requirements, budget preparation, and review of departmental policies and procedures.
Responsible for performance specification, acceptance testing, and commissioning of new equipment.
Performs calibration of the sources and maintenance of all information necessary for their appropriate use.
Develops and maintains a quality assurance program for all treatment modalities, localization procedures, and computational equipment and programs to assure the patients receive prescribed doses and dose distributions, within acceptable degrees of accuracy and according to the recommendations of AAPM task group reports, industry standards, accrediting organization, and federal and state regulations.
In return for your talents, we offer:
Competitive salary, paid time off, 403B retirement savings, and health, vision, dental benefits starting on Day 1- no waiting period
Colleague Referral Program to earn cash and prizes
Unlimited career growth opportunities with one of the largest Catholic healthcare organizations in the country
Trinity Health offers DailyPay - if you’re hired as an eligible colleague, you’ll be able to see how much you’ve made every day and transfer your money any time before payday.
Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity. Trinity Health Grand Rapids is a 265-bed hospital in the heart of Grand Rapids, Michigan, with an attached comprehensive cancer center. Lacks Cancer Center offers both in-patient and out-patient clinical services including surgical oncology services, medical oncology services as well as radiation oncology. Lacks Cancer Center is part of the Cancer Network of West Michigan, offering a range of services across West Michigan.
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