Medical Physicist Senior

The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.

Position Summary: Provides Radiation Oncology Department with physics services to ensure a high level of radiation treatment quality and patient/staff safety.Participates in radiation equipment/software quality assurance program, treatment planning procedures, brachytherapy and special procedures, ensuring radiation equipment performance/maintenance, radiation safety and staff training. Works independently and assumes responsibility for all applicable treatment modalities. Initiates and leads systemwide quality/safety improvement, new technology/modality implementation, program development and system growth initiatives.

Responsibilities :

• Establishes radiation beam characteristics for clinical usage.
• Calibrates radiation therapy equipment, performs quality assurance checks, and coordinates with service engineering to perform basic troubleshooting and repairs.
• Consults with clinical and medical staff on simulation and patient setups, and treatment planning.
• Provides ongoing oversight of quality and safety of patient treatment delivery.
• Provides treatment planning (external beam, brachytherapy), quality assurance checks.

Qualifications:

• Master’s or PhD degree in medical physics or related discipline
• Certified in therapeutic medical physics from American Board of Radiology (ABR) or equivalent certification from Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine (CCPM) or American Board of Medical Physics (ABMP).
• T en years of work experience in a full-service radiation therapy center, after receiving board certification in therapeutic medical physics , that includes independent and consistent delivery of technology implementation and program development projects to implement new technologies/modalities and improve quality, safety, efficiency, and patient care.

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Daily Work Times: 8:30am-5pm
• On Call: No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status,national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classificationprotected by law.