We offer a COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS plan for full time positions

• Three medical plan choices: Caregiver Directed Health Plan (CDHP)/Prime PPO Plan Select /PPO Plan w/ Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
•  Dental plan: Delta Dental via Moda Health
• Vision insurance plan: Full-service visual plan by Vision Service Plan (VSP)
• Retirement plans through Fidelity: 403b employer matching up to 6%
•  Additional insurance options: Employer-provided life insurance. Multiple other options for life and accidental insurance.
• Generous earned-time-off (ETO) plans
• Caregiver/Employee Assistance Program: free access to certified professionals to help provide advice and support around many of life’s challenges (financial, mental, physical, etc.)
• Engage for Health program: a comprehensive wellness program available to all
• St. Charles caregivers, family, and friends, and is designed to support your journey to better health and well-being through a variety of resources and incentives.
• Relocation Assistance 

DEPARTMENT SUMMARY: The Cancer Center at St. Charles Health System (SCHS) is a comprehensive cancer center that provides holistic care to our patients. The cancer center provides chemotherapy, medical oncology, infusion services, radiation therapy, integrative medicine, nutrition, social work, survivorship, and other supportive care treatments. All of our staff support our patients in the various stages of their treatments.

POSITION OVERVIEW: The Chief Medical Physicist at St. Charles Health System oversees clinical medical physics services at the cancer center, ensuring radiation therapy practices align with the center's mission and goals. This role involves performing all aspects of radiation therapy physics, including equipment calibration and commissioning, and maintaining quality assurance protocols. The Chief Medical Physicist ensures compliance with radiation safety standards, licensing, and regulatory guidelines while collaborating with clinical and physician leadership to achieve operational and financial objectives. This position also involves managing physicists and dosimetrists, contributing to the center's operational efficiency and financial sustainability through strategic planning and resource management.

The Radiation Therapy Department equipment includes both Elekta and Varian linear accelerators. Support systems

include but are not limited to Mosaiq, ARIA, and Brainlab. Staffing is based on ASTRO - Safety is No Accident guidelines.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES:

Provides oversight of medical physics, dosimetry functions, and coordination of radiation therapy services for the Cancer Center.

Maintains and assures the technical quality of radiation treatment equipment, treatment planning system and other hardware, as well as associated computer systems/interfaces and make recommendations for purchase or replacement as needed.

Researches, recommends, and educates staff in the use of techniques, which enhance the precision of radiation treatments.

Provides specific patient services such as special dosimetry, computerized treatment planning, special 3-D treatment planning, special S.R.S. treatment, and brachytherapy dosimetry.

Reviews daily quality assurance performed by the Therapists, performs weekly chart reviews as per HCFA requirements, check chart calculations, computer dosimetry, special patient calculations, etc.

Maintains the safe and accurate functioning of the following equipment: radiation oncology simulator, linear accelerator(s), brachytherapy sources, treatment planning computers.

Assists the Radiation Oncologists in intracavitary and interstitial implant procedures.

Submits physics charges.

Performs duties of radioactive materials custodian for radiation therapy department. Serves as a member of, and provides reports to, the Radiation Safety Committee.

May perform Radiation Safety Officer duties for Cancer Services.

Establishes and maintains a current quality assurance/improvement program that conforms to AAPM and State guidelines. Participates in quality program accreditation processes.

Responsible for budget development, regular monitoring, accountability and meeting all operational targets for all areas within span of control.

Hires, directs, coaches, and monitors the performance of all direct reports, to develop and maintain a high-performance team that meets organizational and department goals.

Monitors and ensure all direct reports are current with compliance and safety requirements. Implements and manages all organizational safety directives and goals.

Provides and oversees team’s delivery of customer service in a manner that promotes goodwill, is timely, efficient, and accurate.

Collaborates with teams to review processes and identify/implement opportunities for improvements, applying Value Improvement Practice concepts and tools.

Supports Lean principles of continuous improvement with energy and enthusiasm, functioning as a champion of change.

EDUCATION:

Required: An accredited graduate degree in a science or engineering field relevant to the clinical practice of Medical Physics.

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION/REGISTRATION:

Required: Certification by the American Board of Radiology or a commensurate Medical Specialties board. Member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

EXPERIENCE:

Required: Seven (7) years in a medical center as a Radiation Oncology Physicist.

About St. Charles Health System

St. Charles Health System is a private, nonprofit organization with a vision of creating America’s healthiest community, together. Headquartered in Bend, Ore., St. Charles is an integrated delivery system that provides a full range of quality, evidence-based health care services within a 32,000-square-mile area in Central and Eastern Oregon. Through their actions, our caregivers demonstrate time and again our organization’s beliefs: We believe our strength is in our people. We believe in providing the best care for all. We believe we are at our best when we work as a team. We believe the work we do is greater than ourselves. The organization is focused on developing a culture of continuous improvement and looks to its caregivers to serve as frontline problem-solvers. The health system owns and operates St. Charles hospitals in Bend, Redmond, Prineville and Madras. St. Charles Medical Group is the physician arm of the organization with more than 20 specialties in outpatient clinics throughout the region including family care practices in Bend, La Pine, Madras, Prineville, Redmond and Sisters.In the communities it serves, the health system provided more than $158 million in unreimbur...sed care in 2018, including $19.5 million in charity care.St. Charles Health System is an industry leader. In 2018, St. Charles Redmond was ranked the top hospital in the state of Oregon for quality and safety according to HealthInsights.The St. Charles Cancer Center is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. Our cancer center, which offers radiation and medical oncology as well as other services in one location, was one of only 24 cancer centers in the country to earn the 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award by the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS.) The award recognizes the cancer center’s commitment to providing the highest quality of comprehensive cancer care to the community. We plan to expand cancer services in Redmond in the near future.We have a robust cardiology program including cardiothoracic surgery and interventional cardiology. Among the many procedures our highly skilled team performs is transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVRs), a minimally invasive way for patients to undergo heart valve repair and replacement without having open-heart surgery. The health system earned the 2019 Get with the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and 2019 Target: Stroke Honor Roll Award, which recognizes commitment and success in ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines. The program was also awarded the Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission for meeting the requirements for Advanced Certification as a Primary Stroke Center.St. Charles invests in its communities. St. Charles is dedicated to providing high-quality care and the latest in health care technology to the communities it serves. In 2019, St. Charles Bend opened a new patient tower with an expanded Intensive Care Unit and additional Progressive Care Unit rooms. The space has made an impact throughout the region with more patients able to stay closer to home for critical care services. In 2020, St. Charles will open an expansion in Prineville with more space for rehabilitation services, visiting specialists and walk-in family care appointments

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