Staff/Sr. Medical Dosimetrist – (EAST)

UPMC•Monroeville, PA

1d•$48 - $77•Hybrid

About The Position

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is hiring a regular full-time Staff/Sr. Medical Dosimetrist to support the UPMC East Cancer Center in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. The role has a hybrid arrangement combining on-site duties with work-from-home capability and follows a regular Monday-through-Friday schedule. The successful candidate will join a local team of two physicists, another dosimetrist, and two radiation oncologists. The center treats patients using a Varian IX linear accelerator and an integrated ARIA/Eclipse infrastructure. Techniques include 3DCRT, IMRT, VMAT, SBRT, respiratory gating, and deep inspiration breath hold. The position is supported by a network of more than 50 dosimetrists, and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center offers a dosimetry career ladder. Placement on that ladder is based on education and experience. The medical dosimetrist develops clinically optimal radiation treatment plans in collaboration with radiation oncologists, radiation therapy technologists, and medical physicists. Work includes CT simulation, treatment planning, quality management, and communicating with the clinical team during planning and plan implementation. The senior level requires three years of post-graduate clinical medical dosimetry experience. The stated salary range is $48.08 to $76.52 per hour.

Requirements

Completion of a Medical Dosimetry educational program accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT).
Certified Medical Dosimetrist (CMD) or board eligibility is required.
Board-eligible candidates must become board certified within two attempts during the first two consecutive years of employment.
Maintain adequate continuing education credits to retain certification.
Senior level requires three years of post-graduate clinical medical dosimetry experience.
Act 34 clearance.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Acquire patient data from medical imaging devices or manual methods and incorporate it into radiation treatment plans, calculations, and treatment devices.
Assist radiation therapy technologists with treatment simulation, patient immobilization and positioning, and fabrication of ancillary treatment devices.
Contour and delineate normal critical structures and planning structures using different imaging modalities.
Perform rigid and deformable image registration for multi-modality image sets.
Apply radiation physics principles to treatment planning, including 2D, 3D conformal, IMRT, 4D, VMAT, SRS, SBRT, and brachytherapy planning.
Apply radiobiology knowledge, including dose tolerances, time-dose fractionation, hypofractionation, BED, and EQD2 calculations.
Perform manual and computer-generated radiation dose calculations for treatment delivery.
Participate in special treatment procedures, including TBI, TSEI, and IORT.
Assist with quality assurance procedures as directed by a qualified medical physicist.
Perform or assist with patient-specific radiation measurements using methods such as diodes, OSLD, ion chambers, TLD, or film, as directed by the medical physicist.
Assist with HDR and LDR brachytherapy procedures, including patient setup, simulation, and treatment planning.
Participate in quality management in accordance with departmental policies, national guidelines, and accreditation standards.
Perform routine chart checks according to departmental policy.
Participate in charge capture and prepare billing documentation in accordance with departmental policies.
Participate in clinical research supporting development and implementation of new radiation therapy techniques.
Provide instruction and training to new staff, physician residents, physicist residents, RTT trainees, and medical dosimetrist trainees.
Maintain a caring, supportive, ethical, and professional environment for patients, visitors, medical staff, colleagues, students, and trainees.
Perform other job-related duties as directed by supervising medical physicists.
Ensure accurate transfer of patient and treatment-plan information to clinical systems, including record-and-verify, imaging-guidance, surface-guidance, treatment-delivery, and electronic medical-record systems.
Use critical thinking to plan and evaluate treatments and recognize and resolve equipment problems and treatment discrepancies.
Maintain accuracy, attention to detail, and safety.
Communicate with radiation oncologists during treatment planning and communicate plans to medical physicists and radiation therapy technologists for implementation.
Generate clinically optimal treatment plans using knowledge of anatomy and physiology, radiation biology and oncology, radiation safety and protection, mathematics, radiation therapy techniques, physics, and technology.
Participate in CT simulation, radiation treatment planning, quality management, and clinical-team communication during planning and treatment-plan implementation.