Dosimetrist – Advanced Radiation Treatment Planning

US Oncology Network-wide Career Opportunities; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Compass Oncology's Vancouver Cancer Center seeks a highly skilled Dosimetrist to join our Radiation Oncology team. You will develop, optimize, and evaluate treatment plans using advanced planning systems, imaging, and physics principles to maximize tumor dose while sparing healthy tissue.

Working with radiation oncologists and medical physicists, you will perform QA, plan transfer, and contribute to high-quality patient care in a collaborative cancer care environment.

Qualifications

• CMD certification required and MDCB credential active.
• Experience collaborating with radiation oncologists and medical physicists is essential.

Responsibilities

• Generate radiation therapy treatment plans using planning software and imaging.
• Delineate anatomy on imaging modalities.
• Create compensation filters, shields, and beam-modifying devices.
• Perform patient-specific QA with the medical physicist.
• Complete treatment plans accurately and timely.
• Adapt to new systems and technologies.
• Assist in fabrication of immobilisation devices and during treatment simulations.
• Communicate plan details with physicians and staff; offer alternatives.
• Transfer plans and setup data to ROIS or equivalent system.
• Enter planning codes and perform routine computer tasks.
• Support brachytherapy planning as credentialed.
• Conduct QA on planning systems, LINACs, and devices.
• Support radiation safety and calibrations.
• Educate students and residents in dosimetry.

Skills

Attention to detail

Critical thinking

Communication

Education

CMD certification (MDCB)

Job description

Compass Oncology's Vancouver Cancer Center seeks a highly skilled Dosimetrist to join our Radiation Oncology team. You will develop, optimize, and evaluate treatment plans using advanced planning systems, imaging, and physics principles to maximize tumor dose while sparing healthy tissue.

Working with radiation oncologists and medical physicists, you will perform QA, plan transfer, and contribute to high-quality patient care in a collaborative cancer care environment.