Medical Dosimetrist

2 weeks ago


Bellflower, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time

**Job Summary**:
Provides suitable treatment plans for radiation therapy patients and other physics support including the measurement, calibration, and generation of radiation dose distribution, and various quality assurance procedures.

**Essential Responsibilities**:

- Designs treatment plans by means of computer and/or manual computation that will deliver a prescribed dose and field placement technique in accordance with the Radiation Oncologists prescription to a defined tumor volume, with consideration to dose limiting structures.
- Performs calculations for delivery of prescribed dose and documents calculation in patients chart.
- Performs verification of mathematical accuracy of all calculations using established system.
- Serves as a resource to the therapists working in all areas including simulation, high dose rate, orthovoltage, and treatment.
- Coordinates treatment planning information between physicists, therapists, and physicians as necessary.
- Reviews patients charts after planning to ensure that simulation information is correct and reproducible.
- Prepare radiation oncology chart for patients with individualized treatment plans either external beam or brachytheraphy.
- Performs in-vivo dosimetry with TLDs or diodes and helps maintain the TLDs and diodes.
- Serves as a resource to the Radiation Oncology Aide.
- Assists physicists in annual/bi-yearly treatment machine calibrations.
- Helps to maintain statistics of brachytheraphy and intracavitary cases.
- Provides input to the technical supervisor for the completion of employee performance appraisals.
- Participates in panel interviews for open technical positions.

**Basic Qualifications**:
Experience
- Minimum one (1) year of clinical experience in dosimetry required (w/CMD). If applicant is graduated from credited/approved CMD training program, then it counts as one (1) year clinical experience.
- Minimum one (1) year of experience working with linear accelerators. If applicant is graduated from credited/approved CMD training program, then it counts as one (1) year clinical experience with Linacs.

Education
- High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.

License, Certification, Registration
- Medical Dosimetrist Certificate

**Additional Requirements**:
- Knowledge of radiation physics, dosimetry and State, Federal, and local radiation regulations.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

**Notes**:

- Four (4) 10-hour shifts.
- Will consider remote work.

PrimaryLocation : California,Bellflower,Bellflower Radiation Oncology & MRI Cntr

HoursPerWeek : 40

Shift : Day

Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

WorkingHoursStart : 07:30 AM

WorkingHoursEnd : 06:00 PM

Job Schedule : Full-time

Job Type : Standard

Employee Status : Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-SCAL-01|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Job Category : Clinical Support

Department : BF RAD ONC CTR (LAMC) - Radiation Therpy
- Regular Clin - 0806

Travel : No