Clinical Physicist Radiation Oncology
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18 hours ago
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Job Summary
Scheduled Hours
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Radiation therapy as practiced at the Washington Universitys Department of Radiation Oncology is very personnel-intensive and can be highly customized and individualized for each patient requiring extensive quality assurance (QA) and constant oversight to prevent catastrophic treatment delivery errors. It is subject to extensive and time consuming documentation imposed by current standards of practice and regulatory bodies such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The Clinical Staff Physicist provides the essential administrative organizational and technical expertise that keeps the clinic functioning smoothly safely and at a state-of-the-art technical and clinical level in a technically complex environment.Job Description
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Performs basic calibration and quality assurance testing equipment varies by location.
- Determines the radiation dosimetry parameters for the treatment units simulators and brachytherapy radiation sources.
- Calculates radiation dose distribution of patients undergoing treatment.
- Monitors or measures of the dose delivered to selected patients.
- Maintains dosimetry standards pertaining to radiation dosimetry systems.
- Decides space planning and radiation shielding design for new facilities modalities and equipment.
- Completes radiation safety surveys for facilities and personnel.
- Provides clinical oversight of technical personnel (dosimetrist).
- Consults radiation oncologists regarding special clinical physics considerations for individual patients.
- Develops maintains and implements of calibration and quality assurance programs for all external beam treatment machines simulators treatment planning systems and brachytherapy equipment/sources.
- Develops maintains and implements of quality control procedures.
- Develops maintains and implements physics and dosimetry protocols.
- Ensures the release of treatment machines into clinical services after maintenance and for documenting that any alterations caused by the maintenance and repair schedule do not affect the treatment unit standards promulgated in the AAPM code of practice.
- Serves as liaison to equipment manufactures for installation acceptance testing and verification testing and making recommendations concerning new equipment acquisitions and upgrades of hardware and software.
- Interprets test results and advising clinical staff on optimal equipment use.
- Oversees compliance with U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Food and Drug Administration licensing and other regulatory requirements governing personnel and general public safety and other issues; and attending Radiation Safety Committee meetings.
- Provides on-site contouring or normal anatomy and processing of multimodality imaging including image registration deformations processing of respiratory motion correlated images.
- Provides on-site treatment planning with equipment varying by location.
Working Conditions:
Job Location/Working Conditions
- Normal office environment.
Physical Effort
- Typically sitting at desk or table.
- Repetitive wrist hand or finger movement.
Equipment
- Office equipment.
Required Qualifications
Education:
M.S. - Master Of Science - Physics
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More About This Job
Primary location Alton; may have opportunities to work on main campus.
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
No additional education unless stated elsewhere in the job posting.
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All qualified individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and if requested reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job absent undue hardship.Pre-Employment Screening
All external candidates receiving an offer for employment will be required to submit to pre-employment screening for this position. The screenings will include criminal background check and as applicable for the position other background checks drug screen an employment and education or licensure/certification verification physical examination certain vaccinations and/or governmental registry checks. All offers are contingent upon successful completion of required screening.Benefits Statement
Washington University in St. Louis is committed to providing a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to our employees. Benefits eligibility is subject to employment status full-time equivalent (FTE) workload and weekly standard hours. Please visit our website at to view a summary of benefits.EEO Statement
Washington University in St. Louis is committed to the principles and practices of equal employment opportunity. It is the Universitys policy to provide equal opportunity and access to persons in all job titles without regard to race ethnicity color national origin citizenship (where prohibited by federal law) age religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability protected veteran status or genetic information.Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Hospital Experience
- Acute Care
- Basic Life Support
- ICU Experience
- Infusion Experience
- Triage
- TFS
- Conflict Management
- Nursing
- Critical Care Experience
- Epic
- Medication Administration
