Medical Physicist

St. Luke's Health System•Twin Falls, ID

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About The Position

St. Luke's Health System in Twin Falls, Idaho is looking for a full-time Board Certified/Board Eligible Medical Physicist to work with our highly collaborative and patient-focused team at St. Luke's Cancer Institute. The selected individual will be joining a team of physicists and dosimetrists in an Aria/Eclipse environment with Varian TrueBeam linear accelerators. This role offers great work/life balance, retirement and health-care benefits, PTO, and sign-on and relocation bonuses. The Twin Falls team consists of a Chief of Physics, 2 physicians, 2 dosimetrists, 6 therapists and a therapist supervisor. While this position is based in Twin Falls, you will also be part of a larger group that is spread throughout the Boise area consisting of an additional 5 physicists, 9 dosimetrists and a dedicated IT support team. Twin Falls, Idaho offers the perfect blend of professional opportunity and outdoor enjoyment. While our community is a welcoming small town of about 60,000 residents, our Cancer Institute draws patients from across a large region, creating a thriving and dynamic program. People love Twin Falls for its easy access to world-class skiing, hiking, backpacking, and mountain biking, as well as blue skies, kayaking, boating, hunting, camping, natural hot springs and the list goes on. Here, work-life balance is more than a concept—it’s a priority, so you can enjoy everything this incredible region has to offer.

Requirements

Education: Master’s degree in Medical Physics or a related field
Experience: 2 years in radiation oncology physics setting or completion of CAMPEP accredited residency.
Licenses/Certifications: Certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics (TRP) or Therapeutic Medical Physics (TMP) by the ABR or ABMP

Responsibilities

Ensures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols.
Ensures that all radiation safety requirements throughout the facility are met in collaboration with the hospital Radiation Safety Officer.
In coordination with other team members, develops and maintains a QA program.
Ensures that the beam and source data are accurate and correctly entered into the treatment planning system.
Establishes treatment planning and dose calculation procedures that are used throughout the department, and ensures their accuracy.
In consultation with the radiation oncologists and dosimetrists, oversees treatment planning and determination of radiation dose distributions in patients undergoing treatment.
Ensures policies and procedures contain proper elements of good radiation oncology practice, delivery of treatment, radiation safety, quality control, and regulatory compliance.
Releases a treatment machine into clinical service after maintenance, and documents that any alteration caused by the maintenance and repair schedule does not affect the accelerator performance or calibration.
Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Ensures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols.