Medical Physicist II

Union: Non-Union
Number of Vacancies: 1
Site: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Department of Medical Physics and Stronach Regional Cancer Centre (SRCC) Department of Medical Physics.
Reports to: Head of Medical Physics at PM and to the Director of Clinical Physics Operations at SRCC for daily clinical service
Hours: 37.5 hours per week Mon Fri
Status:  Permanent Full-Time
Closing Date: August 25 2025

Position Description:

The Department of Medical Physics and the Radiation Medicine Program at the Princess Margaret (PM) Cancer Centre in collaboration with the Stronach Regional Cancer Centre (SRCC) at Southlake are seeking a Medical Physicist to fill a permanent fulltime position for service at the SRCC. The PM has been providing Medical Physics leadership and Medical Physics service support to SRCC under a contractual relationship since 2009 and this PM position is part of this contractual arrangement. This position presents an unique opportunity that has the best of both worlds as it provides all benefits of being associated with the large academic PM Department of Medical Physics including its clinical research and educational collaboration agenda. At the same time the candidate will be embedded at SRCC and be part of the smaller nimbler multidisciplinary clinical team. The successful candidate will be able to gain different experience from both environments and expand their professional network.

SRCC is a growing cancer centre serving the York Region and the South Simcoe region a rapidly growing community north of Toronto. It has three Elekta Versa linear accelerators and two Elekta Harmony linear accelerator (first in Canada) a Philips Big Bore CT simulator and a PET/CT simulator co-administered with the Radiology Department. The SRCC Medical Physics Department includes 6 FTE physicists and is active in clinical physics resident education and operational research. The RayStation treatment planning system (TPS) has been implemented for part of the infrastructure and disease sites and will completely replace the Pinnacle TPS within the next year.  SRCC offers state-of-the-art treatment techniques including lung liver oligometastatic and paraspinal SBRT curative and complex palliative treatments using VMAT . It is one of the best performing programs in the province of Ontario consistently leading in various key quality indicators.

Through affiliation with PMs Department of Medical Physics staff professional and academic growth avenues will be provided including access to research and development opportunities related to topics in a set of focus areas. Topics include process automation data science MR-guided external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy dose accumulation adaptive radiotherapy radiation dosimetry proton and particle therapy technology development and implementation theranostics functional imaging for treatment response assessment and optical techniques and biophotonics in conjunction with radiation.

Both PM and SRCCs department of Medical Physics is active in education and training of medical physicists through its CAMPEP-accredited residency program at the University of Toronto Department of Radiation Oncology. The Medical Physics department at PM also maintains a strong relation with University of Torontos Department of Medical Biophysics through which it established a CAMPEP-accredited Ph.D. program since 2022 providing robust access to top-notch graduate students. The successful candidate will be encouraged and supported to secure an academic appointment at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto.

Qualifications :

• The successful candidate holds a CAMPEP-accredited graduate degree in Medical Physics or related field
• CCPM eligible and has experience in advanced imaging treatment planning and delivery technologies in external beam radiation therapy.
• Motivated self-starter wanting to make a difference and a team player with excellent communication and problem-solving skills and high adaptability eager to foster and develop their skills and keen in participating in or leading clinical development and research.

Additional Information :

Why join UHN

In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world UHN offers a wide range of benefits programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor allowing you to find value where it matters most to you now and throughout your career at UHN.

• Competitive offer packages
• Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
• A flexible work environment
• Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
• Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel restaurants parking phone plans auto insurance discounts on-site gyms etc.)

Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHNs attendance management program to be eligible for consideration.

All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.

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Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading inaccurate or incorrect UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.

UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known.

We thank all applicants for their interest however only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time