Medical Physicist- Cancer Institute

Location Address: 225 Smith Ave NSTE 200

St Paul, MN

Date Posted: September 03, 2025

Department:  AHCI Radiation Oncology Saint Paul

Shift: Day (United States of America)

Shift Length: 8 hour shift

Hours Per Week: 40

Union

Contract:

Non-Union-NCT

Weekend Rotation: None

Job Summary: Allina Health is a not-for-profit health system that cares for individuals, families and communities throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. If you value putting patients first, consider a career at Allina Health. Our mission is to provide exceptional care as we prevent illness, restore health and provide comfort to all who entrust us with their care. This includes you and your loved ones.

We are committed to providing whole person care, investing in your well-being, and enriching your career.

• Each site has one GE CT simulator and two Varian Truebeam linear accelerators equipped with Vision
  
  RT, and utilizing Hyperarc and HD-MLCs for stereotactic treatment. Our Minneapolis location also provides physics services for HDR GYN brachytherapy, Y-90 liver radio embolization, cardiac intravascular brachytherapy, and Gammatile implant programs. External beam treatment planning is performed using Varian Eclipse, with Aria for the Oncology Information System.

• While prior experience with these procedures and equipment is desirable, the successful candidate will join a team of equals who will support them in gaining proficiency and expertise in all radiation therapy services provided at Allina.

• Additional equipment includes:
  Mobius3D and Mobius
  
  FX for patient specific QA, Radformation software (Clearcheck, Autocontour, Clearcalc, EZFluence), Dose Lab Pro, QAPilot, MIM, Velocity, and a wide array of measurement equipment, including SRS Map Check, MapCheck2, IC Profiler, Sun Scan 3D, MP3, Octavius SRS 1000 & 1600, for routine quality assurance. Additionally, QA automation is planned for 2025.

• There are also ample opportunities for clinical research and continuing education.

The successful candidate will be a key member of our collaborative and supportive Physics team, which currently consists of four physicists. Radiation Oncology at Allina Health is composed of a collegial, respectful, and talented group of professionals including four dosimetrists, five physicians, and our wonderful nurses, therapists, and front desk staff.

The physics team at Allina Health Cancer Institute splits time between two clinical sites at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and United Hospital in St. Paul.

Provides medical physics services in the accordance with the highest standard of practice in planning, optimization, evaluation and delivery of radiation therapy. Responsible for ensuring the accurate and consistent performance of the equipment, treatment plans and dose calculations. Responsible for the safe and accurate administration of therapeutic radiation and acts as the department’s primary resource for all medical radiation safety and regulatory requirements.

• Quality & Safety
  • Responsible for the design, implementation and compliance of the quality control program for all radiation producing equipment and radioactive materials in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations and accrediting bodies.
  • Implements and quality assures appropriate procedures for the planning and delivery of radiotherapy, including technical specifications/tolerances a well as the flow of procedures entailed in the process, including the supervision and QC review of treatment plans and dose calculations.
  • Performs daily clinical tasks pertaining to chart checks, plan checks, patient specific quality assurance, or other special procedures as needed.
  • Performs all weekly, monthly and annual Quality Assurance testing on all equipment.
  • Attends and participates in departmental or facility meetings such as but not limited to: CQI, huddles, & weekly new case conference.
• Treatment & Planning
  • Perform physics planning and delivery of all radioactive brachytherapy source procedures required in both radiation oncology and outside departments.
  • Produce computer plans to satisfy physician prescription or written directive.
  • May produce treatment plans using the health system’s available modes and techniques.
• Collaboration
  • Works with the physics team in a peer team model, in which all physicists have proficiency and cover each other in all aspects.
  • Consults and collaborates with radiation oncology, dosimetry, radiation therapist, or department members on complex treatment cases.
  • Collaborate with Radiation Safety officer to achieve federal and state compliance associated with linear accelerators, x-ray producing devices and brachytherapy sources.
  • Participates in the collaboration with IS and vendors to troubleshoot and upgrade systems used in Radiation Oncology.
  • Provides leadership in technical, educational and radiation matters to the radiation oncology department.
• Innovation
  • Determine technical specifications for selection of new equipment and/or…