Clinical Physicist - Radiation Oncology

Scheduled Hours 40 Position Summary Radiation therapy as practiced at the Washington University’s 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.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by the personnel so classified. Management reserves the right to revise or amend duties at any time.
Required Qualifications

Education:

M.S.

- Master Of Science - Physics

Certifications /Professional Licenses :

The list below may include all acceptable certifications, professional licenses and issuers. More than one credential, certification or professional license may be required depending on the role. Therapeutic Medical Physics I - American Board of Radiology

Work Experience:

No specific work experience is required for this position.

Skills:

Not Applicable

Driver's License:

A driver's license is not required for this position.
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.

Certifications/Professional Licenses :

No additional certification/professional licenses unless stated elsewhere in the job posting.

Work Experience:

No additional work experience unless stated elsewhere in the job posting.

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Mathematical Computation Grade S00 Questions

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