Advocate Health Care

Medical Physicist Oncology - Radiation Physicist Atrium Health Cabarrus Levine Cancer FT

Advocate Health Care$113K — $144K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Medical Physics
  • Completion of a CAMPEP-accredited medical physics residency program
  • Medical Physicist certification from ABMP, ABR, or CCPM to be obtained within 4 years
  • Knowledge of treatment units and simulators
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Perform delivery of complex treatment planning and techniques.
  • Calibrate therapy machines and ensure compliance with national standards.
  • Conduct radiation surveys for patients and treatment rooms.
  • Enter and validate data in treatment planning systems.
  • Assist in writing specifications and commissioning new therapy equipment.
  • Champion the implementation of new technology and serve as a technical resource.
  • Complete competencies for other staff members.

Benefits

  • Sign-on bonus eligibility based on conditions
  • Full-time employment status
  • Opportunity for continued education
  • Supportive work environment with growth potential
  • Engagement in cutting-edge technology and techniques
Full Job Description

Department:

37303 Atrium Health Cabarrus - Oncology: Radiation

Status:

Full time

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Varies

This position is Sign-on Bonus eligible. Based on eligibility.

Pay Range:

$86.75 - $138.80

Major Responsibilities:

  • Performs delivery of non-standard, standard and complicated treatment planning and techniques.
  • Calibrates various therapy machines, measures instruments against national standards, and measures therapy beam data for treatment planning purposes. Leads and facilitates the troubleshooting process, works collaboratively with Medical Engineers. Operates and performs quality assurance (QA) on equipment as required.
  • Performs radiation surveys of patients exposed to radioactive sources; regularly performs radiation surveys of treatment rooms.
  • Enters and validates data in treatment planning systems.
  • Assists with writing specifications and commissioning new therapy equipment and accessories; designs new techniques and ancillary equipment as required.
  • Rapidly adopts and champions implementation of new technology and techniques; serves as a technical resource, role model and/or preceptor for staff, and conducts in-services as assigned.
  • Assists in completion of competencies for other staff.
  • Assists with ensuring compliance with all state and federal regulating and accrediting bodies.
  • Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures. Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.


Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

  • Medical Physicist certification issued by the American Board of Medical Physics (ABMP) needs to be obtained within 4 years, or
  • Medical Physicist (CMP-ABR) certification issued by The American Board of Radiology (ABR) needs to be obtained within 4 years, or
  • Medical Physicist (CMP-CCPM) certification issued by The Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine (CCPM) needs to be obtained within 4 years.


Education Required:

  • Master's Degree in Medical Physics.


Experience Required:

  • No experience required.


Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

  • Completion of a CAMPEP-accredited medical physics residency program is required.
  • Knowledge of treatment units and simulators and awareness of treatment unit's limitations in clinical situations.
  • Knowledge of record and verify and radiation oncology electronic medical record systems.
  • Knowledge and ability to learn and apply complex radiation therapy principles.
  • Proficient with general radiation equipment.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with physicians, staff, patients and their families.
  • Excellent problem solving abilities and analytical skills to compare data.


Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

  • Must lift up to 20 lbs. frequently and up to 50 lbs. occasionally. Must be able to sit 50% of workday.
  • May push up to 500 pounds, 50 to 200 feet.
  • Exposed to mechanical, electrical, chemical and radiation hazards.
  • Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.


This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
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75,000 employees
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Founded
1976

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