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Medical Physicist | Coborn Cancer Center-St. Cloud, MN
We are seeking a Medical Physicist to join our team, which includes four physicists, one chief physicist, and six fully remote dosimetrists. This position will support radiation oncologists that utilize a single vendor platform across our five sites located in St. Cloud (2), Monticello, Alexandria, Willmar, and Wadena.
- Full-time | 80 hours every two weeks | Hybrid (60-80%)
- Monday-Friday | Working hours between 7:30am- 5pm
- No nights, weekends, or holidays
Primary tasks include: patient treatment plan checks; weekly physics chart checks, daily, monthly, and annual machine quality assurance, SRS and SBRT presence/consulting, as well as serving as a resource to the dosimetrists and physicians for special physics consultations.
Additional responsibilities include MLC-based linac SRS planning and the involvement in acceptance testing and commissioning of new treatment machines, software, or other hardware. On site presence required at our St. Cloud center while our other 4 satellites are covered by remote and by special consult presence. The physicist will also be required to perform any required daily, monthly, and annual QA for each satellite’s CT and linac.
Treatments and Equipment:
- Six beam-matched Varian TrueBeam linear accelerators across our locations
- Treatment procedures include 3D, IMRT, VMAT, SBRT, and MLC-based linac SRS in St. Cloud. IGRT and SGRT at all sites
- Three sites are equipped with large-bore Philips CT Simulators with OMAR and a PET/CT. Wadena features a Siemens PET/CT unit.
- Treatment Planning System is Eclipse with ARIA EMR, Velocity for DICOM registration and backup
- Our list of physics QA hardware and software is, but not limited to, SNC Profiler ICs, PTW Octavius 729s, PTW 3D and 1D water tanks, PTW electrometers, Varian Portal Dosimetry Package, Varian MPC, Radformation’s ClearCheck, ClearCalc, EZfluence, and Auto Contouring packages, Sun Nuclear StereoPhan phantom with SRS MapCheck.
Pay and Benefits:
- Starting pay begins at $172,429.30 per year and increases with experience
- Salary range: $172,429.30 - $258,622.57 per year
- Salary range is based on a 1.0 FTE, reduced FTE will result in a prorated offer rate
- $8,000 hiring bonus and $5,000 relocation bonus available for qualified candidates
Qualifications:
- Master's Degree or higher in Medical Physics or Applied Physics and a completed medical physics residency program
- New graduates of a medical physics program with clinical experience during studies will also meet experience requirements.
- American Board of Radiology Certification in Radiation Oncology Physics for 5 years preferred. Will also consider American Board of Radiology eligible to be attained within first 5 years of employment.
- 1 years post graduate experience in a program of similar size with computerized treatment planning and comparable computerized simulator/accelerator preferred.
- 5 years post residency experience in a Varian/ARIA program of similar size with computerized treatment planning and comparable computerized simulator/accelerator experience preferred.
- ABR certified in radiation therapy physics. Strong MLC-based linac SRS planning experience preferred.
Qualified candidates may inquire to Nicky Lahr, lahrn@centracare.com 320-255-6601.
CentraCare
CentraCare is committed to the patients and families we serve in the communities we call home throughout Central, West Central and Southwestern Minnesota.
- Has grown to be one of the largest health systems in Minnesota
- Leading provider of rural health in the state
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- Access to more than 40 medical and surgical specialties
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