Physicist

City of Hope • Torrance, CA

68d

About The Position

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. As a Physicist, your responsibilities will include performing various tasks related to dosimetry, calibration, treatment planning, protection, and safety within the field of radiation therapy. This role involves directing CT simulation, overseeing the transfer of studies to the treatment planning system, contouring structures, calculating doses, determining and verifying machine settings, and ensuring accurate data transfer to the record and verify system.

Requirements

• PhD
• 24 months clinical work in Radiation Physics or graduation from a CAMPEP program
• ABR or ABMP or eligibility plus certification within 2 years of hire

Responsibilities

• Initiate and develop procedures for calibration and data collection of newly established programs
• Participate in Brachytherapy treatment planning and loading of radioactive sources
• Ensure that all assignments (including recurring assignments) are completed as scheduled

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees