Diagnostic Medical Physicist - Radiology Administration

hhccareers; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Work-life balance

Job summary

Hartford HealthCare seeks a Diagnostic Medical Physicist to join the Medical Physics and Radiation Safety team. You will deliver imaging physics services across CT, X-ray, mammography, PET/SPECT, and nuclear medicine, supporting accreditation and safety programs.

You will provide education and training, participate in quality improvement projects, develop shielding designs, and support dosimetry for therapies, while representing HHC in regulatory meetings and promoting ALARA practices.

Qualifications

• Masters in Health Physics or Medical Physics.
• Bachelor's in Radiation Science with 10 years medical regulatory oversight.
• Five years of professional health/medical physics experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide imaging physics services for Mammography, US, X-ray, CT, PET/SPECT, and other modalities.
• Provide radiation protection resources for campus programs and MR safety.
• Promote ALARA compliance with policies and regulations.
• Represent HHC in meetings/committees to advance safety programs.
• Calculate shielding designs and dosimetry support for therapies.
• Provide physics education to residents and safety training to staff.

Skills

Radiation safety

Medical physics

Education & training

Regulatory compliance

Education

Masters in Health Physics or Medical Physics

Bachelor's in Radiation Science with 10 years RSO/oversight

Job description

Work where every moment matters

Every day, over 40,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut's most comprehensive healthcare network.

Hartford Hospital is one of the largest and most respected teaching hospitals New England. We are a Level 1 Trauma Center that provides cutting edge treatment to its patients. This is made possible by being home to the largest robotic surgery center in the Northeast and the Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation (CESI), one of the most-advanced medical simulation training centers in the world. When hospitals cannot provide the advanced care, expertise and new treatment options their patients require, they turn to us.

Hartford HealthCare has a unique opportunity for a Diagnostic Medical Physicist (DMP) to join our growing Medical Physics and the Radiation Safety team. The DMP will support the HHC imaging medical physics program. In addition, the DMP will provide education and training and will support the imaging quality improvement projects.

Summary

• Provide physics services as required by the ACR accreditation, the Joint Commission and state regulations for Mammography, US equipment, X-ray imaging physics services, including CR, DR, fluoroscopic/angiographic, and CT, CBCT/OBI imagers, CT and R/F simulators, Nuclear Medicine PET, SPECT, planar, and cardiac modalities.
• Provide radiation protection technical resources for each HHC campus radiation protection program (to include low dose protocols in Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT, CT, Interventional Fluoroscopy and general Fluoroscopy), and MR Safety
• Promote radiation safety program compliance with applicable HHC policies and procedures, the HHC ALARA program, and all local, state, and federal regulations
• Represent HHC at various local, state and federal meetings, committees, and task groups to promote existing and new radiation safety programs and/or policies.
• Calculate radiation shielding designs, fetal and skin dose consults.
• Providing radiation safety and dosimetry support for Y-90 and radioiodine therapies.
• Providing physics education to the radiology residents and radiation safety training to clinical staff.

• Masters in Health Physics or Medical Physics
• Bachelor's in Radiation Science only acceptable with 10 years as medical RSO or related medical regulatory radiation program oversight experience.
• Five (5) years professional experience health physics, medical health physics or medical physics in a medical safety program
• One of the following Board Certifications:
  • ABHP (American Board of Health Physics)
  • ABNMS (American Board of science in Nuclear Medicine)
  • ABMP (American Board of Medical Physicist)
  • ABR (American Board of Radiology)

With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge – helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees-- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance. Every moment matters. And this is your moment.

• We provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action employer, the organization will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and veteran or disability status.