Medical Physicist

2 weeks ago

Lexington, United States CHI Saint Joseph Hospital Full time
Overview

Saint Joseph Hospital is a 433-bed facility located in Lexington Kentucky. Founded in 1877 a small group of Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford began their health ministry. Their mission was to provide compassionate care to the poor and underserved – a tradition still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital primarily serves central and eastern Kentucky with a full range of services including distinguished awards for cardiology orthopedics and stroke care. CHI Saint Joseph Health supports 5000 active employees 8 hospitals specialty clinics and a Medical Group with more than 200 locations across Central and Eastern KY. CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health in 2019. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.


Responsibilities

****Sign On Bonus up to $25,000 and Student Loan Payback up to $24,000 for eligible hires****

Saint Joseph is currently treating using a Varian 23iX linac with 120 MLC and
CBCT image, MOSAIQ record and verify, Pinnacle 18-HSOP TPS, and GE Lightspeed
CT simulator. In addition, the candidate will have the opportunity to also work with our
Elekta VersaHD linacs at our Lexington and Bardstown locations, as well as our Philips
Brilliance Big Bore, 4D CT simulator. We primarily use SNC QA equipment, and
currently have SNC Daily QA, ArcCheck, MapCheck2, Round Phantom, and Profiler in
use.

JOB SUMMARY / PURPOSE

The Medical Physicist works with the Radiation Oncologist, Dosimetrist, Radio Therapist and others to assure the accurate delivery of all aspects of therapeutic radiation. They are directly involved in patient care whereby their decisions contribute to the optimal safe and effective delivery of ionizing radiation per the Oncologist’s
prescribed treatment. They are responsible for calibration of machines, office radiation safety training, quality assurance of diagnostic and therapy equipment and accessories. 

ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Performance specification, acceptance testing, and commissioning of new equipment.

2. Development and maintenance of quality assurance programs for all treatment modalities, localization procedures, and computational equipment to assure that patients receive prescribed doses within acceptable degrees of accuracy.

3. Maintenance of all instrumentation required for calibration of sources, measurement of radiation and calibration of doses.

4. Other duties as assigned by management.


Qualifications

Required Education: The clinical medical physicist must have an . or PhD in medical physics and be ABR Board Certified or Board Eligible.

Required Licensure and Certifications: BLS

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