Responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy treatments to patients in an environment that meets established standards for radiation safety for staff, physicians, patients, and the general public and in a manner that meets the service expectations of each of these groups.
Essential Functions:
- Provides surveys, reports, and consultation related to radiation safety for applicable facilities and/or patients that meet the organizations and regulatory standards in a timely manner.
- Develops and implements quality assurance and evaluation programs for applicable diagnostic imaging and/or radiation therapy equipment that insure high quality images and radiation treatments and that meet regulatory requirements.
- Monitors and reports quality assurance activities to insure adherence to established QA policies and procedures.
- Evaluates and reports the performance of this equipment in a timely manner and makes recommendations to improve quality.
- Maintains up-to-date technical knowledge of new and developing technologies and regulatory issues to support clinical and administrative decision-makers.
- Provides in-service training to staff and physicians, as necessary, to insure high quality images and radiation treatments, a radiation-safe environment, and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Communicates to staff, physicians and patients in a manner that is precise, understandable, timely, constructive, and proactive and demonstrates excellent listening skills.
- Maintains working relationships that are professional, collaborative, team-oriented, responsive, thorough, cordial, and that demonstrate flexibility, innovation, broad view of issues, acceptance of full responsibility for assignments, and a solutions orientation.
- Services specific to Radiation Oncology: Performing calibration of all radiation therapy equipment, and Linear Accelerator commissioning.
- Implement LDR Brachytherapy treatments for patients.
- Treatment planning including High Dose Rate Brachytherapy, Stereotactic Radiosurgery, IMRT, IGRT, 3-D Conformal for patient treatment.
- Implement and carry out Radiation Therapy Quality Assurance program.
- Provides effective and comprehensive instruction in medical radiation physics to radiation oncology residents sufficient to pass the physics portion of the ABR certification exam.
- Note: Due to Kaiser internal policies and/or regulatory requirements, non-certified individuals can not be permitted to perform certain tasks and/or produce reports independently without the oversight by and the cosigning of a certified physicist.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Diagnostic Medical Physicist: Experience in evaluating performance of diagnostic imaging systems
- Experience in evaluating radiation safety status of machine and radioactive materials sources of ionizing radiation.
- Experience in designing, implementing, and monitoring quality assurance programs in diagnostic imaging
- Experience teaching Diagnostic Radiology residents, preferred.
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in medical physics or a related field plus two (2) years of postgraduate degree experience in Diagnostic Medical Physics subspecialty. Degree requirements waived if candidate meets certification requirements.
- ABR certification in diagnostic radiological physics, preferred.
- Qualified to perform mammography surveys under MQSA, preferred.
- Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist: Master's degree in Medical Physics plus five (5) years of post-graduate clinical experience in radiation oncology OR PhD in Medical Physics plus two (2) years of post-graduate experience in radiation oncology.
- Note: Individuals who are certified in the applicable subspecialty area(s) shall receive 10% higher salaries than those who are not but otherwise of comparable training, experience, and job performance.
- General knowledge of medical radiation physics, medical radiation safety and pertinent regulations.
- General knowledge of computers and their applications in diagnostic imaging.
- Good communication skills, demonstrated customer service skills and willingness to be part of a team.
- Consistently demonstrates the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, and to customers, contracted providers, and vendors.
- Additional qualifications specific to Radiation Therapy Physicist:
- Experience in designing, implementing and monitoring Radiation Therapy quality assurance programs to ensure both patient safety and high quality treatment delivery.
-Experience performing calibration of all radiation therapy equipment
-Brachytherapy experience
-Treatment planning experience and QA for 3-D conformal, IMRT, IGRT.
-Experience commissioning linear accelerators
-Experience with high dose rate delivery systems and stereotactic radiosurgery systems including planning and treatment QA
-Experience teaching Radiation Oncology residents, preferred
-ABR certification in therapeutic radiological physics, preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Qualified to perform mammo surveys under MQSA.
- Qualified physicist under ACR for CT, MR, NM etc.
- CA Dept of Pub Hlth mammography medical physics support services
- Certified by ABR or ABMP in diagnostic radiological physics
- Basic computer skills to include Word, Excel & Powerpoint.
Notes:
- Personal transportation required for transporting self and test equipment between Kaiser facilities
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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