Job Description:

Medical Physicists at Intermountain Health are committed to providing patient centered care while demonstrating our values of Integrity, Trust, Excellence, Accountability, and Mutual Respect. If you are interested in contributing to our mission of helping people live the healthiest lives possible- come join our team!

Posting Specifics:

• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• Hours: (Full time)
• Additional Details: Shift differentials given for evenings, nights and weekends

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and Paid Time Off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

We’re proud to offer caregivers access to tuition assistance, certification assistance, up-front tuition through the PEAK (Path to Education, Advancement, and Knowledge) program, debt-free degrees, and other department education payments or employer-paid education assistance.

Scope

• Performs, documents, and provides documentation of calibration, maintenance, compliance testing, quality control and performance evaluations on all Radiation Oncology equipment, according to State, Federal, and JCAHO regulations to ensure licensure is maintained.
• Collaborates, advises, performs, and supervises treatment planning and dosimetry. Verifies all prescription calculations and notifies physician of any discrepancies.
• Reviews, changes, and writes policy and procedures periodically and formally review on a yearly basis. Observes established policies and procedures regarding department and hospital guidelines, quality control, radiation safety, environmental and infection control.
• Provides staff with in service and continuing education lectures relating to radiation safety and the implementation of new techniques or procedures and functions as a resource person.
• Informs, advises, and collaborates with department supervisors and radiation oncologist to assure patient safety and quality on a continual basis.
• Generates treatment plans utilizing computer isodose plans or manual calculations which achieve optimum tumor volume coverage as outlined in the physicians prescriptions and performs specific dose calculations on individual patients upon request.
• May perform as the facility Radiation Safety Officer.
• Supervises all aspects of brachytherapy.

Qualifications

• Ph D or Masters Degree in Medical Physics or DMP Degree, required
• Board eligible by Therapeutic Medical Physics, required
• Licensure in the state of practice, as required
• For care sites in Colorado provisional RMP/QI/QE(t), required
• Five (5) years of experience in Medical Physics, preferred

Physical Requirements:

Hearing/listening, lifting, manual dexterity, pulling/pushing, seeing, sitting, speaking, squatting/kneeling, standing, and walking.

Anticipated job posting close date:

04/23/2024

Location:

San Juan Cancer Center JV

Work City:

Montrose

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$66.95 - $122.79