Lead Physicist - Midtown

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Summary: This role involves leading and mentoring medical physicists while providing expert physics services for radiation treatment planning and delivery, ensuring quality assurance and technical guidance. Highlights: 1. Lead and mentor staff medical physicists 2. Provide technical leadership for radiation treatment programs 3. Perform quality assurance checks on all department equipment Apply Now Overview: Lead Physicist, FT, Piedmont Columbus John B. Amos Cancer Center Provides physics services reled to the planning and delivery of therapeutic radiion trement in accordance with the Radiion Oncologist's prescription. Provides technical leadership including clinical set-up expertise to radiion oncologists, dosimetrists and therapists. Performs quality assurance checks according to regulory requirements and industry standards for all department equipment. Serves as a mentor and team lead for staff medical physicists. Reports to the Manager for Radiion Physics. Responsibilities: MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED: Masters of Science in Medical Physics, or reled discipline. Qualificions: MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Five years of clinical experience as a medical physicist in a radiion therapy department. MINIMUM LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LAW: Board Certified by the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiion Physics Ability to be listed as an authorized user on the Ste of Georgia Radioactive Merial Licenses Participion in the American Board of Radiology Maintenance of Certificion Program KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Works collaborively with radiion oncologists, medical dosimetrists, and radiion therapists to provide technical expertise for trement programs in radiion oncology including, but not limited to, external beam, brachytherapy, radiosurgery, and radiopharmaceutical programs. 2. Performs quality assurance checks based on industry standards on all equipment including, but not limited to, linear accelerors; CT scanners; trement planning systems; and brachytherapy sources and equipment per AAPM recommendions and regulory requirements. 3. Maintains documention of all commissioning, acceptance, and quality assurance activities and provides these documents for review. 4. Maintains a high level of expertise in the use of the trement planning and trement delivery hardware and software and performs routine quality assurance checks and peer reviews of trement plan quality. 5. Performs physics chart checks during the course of care for pients under trement; makes recommendions for policy and procedure updes; provides oversight for the technical aspects of the trement delivery process. 6. Provides staff in-services; radiion safety educion; participes in the instruction of medical physics residents, dosimetry students, and radiion therapy students roting through the clinic. 7. Participes as an active member of medical physics and radiion oncology initiives; tends scheduled staff meetings; contributes positively to the growth of programs and services. Business Unit : Company Name: Piedmont Columbus Midtown Apply Now