Medical Physicist

Selectminds; Mount Clemens (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care's Karmanos Cancer Institute at McLaren Macomb is seeking a Medical Physicist to join a core team serving the Macomb, Clarkston, and Port Huron centers, with support from the Karmanos Network Physics team.

The successful candidate will contribute to LINAC acceptance/commissioning, SBRT programs, QA, and collaborative treatment planning. Open to all career levels; compensation based on experience; full-time position within a 12-physicist network.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD degree in medical physics or related discipline.
• Two or more years of prior work experience as a Medical Physicist or Medical Physics Resident in full-service radiation therapy center.

Responsibilities

• Acceptance and commissioning of LINAC
• Implementation of clinical stereotactic program
• Radiation therapy equipment calibration,quality assurance
• Collaborationwith clinical and medical staff onsimulation and treatment planning
• Provide ongoing oversight of quality and safety of patient treatment delivery
• Participation in department quality assurance and continuous quality improvement programs
• Participation in clinical research efforts
• Collaboration in network physics initiatives

Skills

Medical physics

Clinical teamwork

Research collaboration

Education

MS/PhD in medical physics

Job description

The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.

Looking to join a dynamic physics team in a growing center? The Karmanos Cancer Institute at McLaren Macomb is hiring. The position is open to all career levels with compensation based on experience, so this would be a terrific opportunity for either a current resident looking for a first post-residency position, or an experienced physicist looking to advance their career. This position is part of a core team of 3 physicists responsible for activities in the Macomb, Clarkston, and Port Huron centers, with additional support from the Karmanos Network Physics team.

The Team

The successful candidate will join a local team of 2 other physicists, 3 dosimetrists, and 4 physicians providing care for cancer patients across these 3 centers.

The Karmanos Cancer Network comprises 10 cancer centers spread throughout Michigan. The physics team, consisting of 12 physicists and 2 physics residents, collaborates closely in all areas of patient care, technical duties, and quality/system improvement projects. The new team member will have immediate opportunities to make significant contributions across the spectrum of physics activities.

Technologies

The centers have three Varian TrueBeams and 1 Varian Trilogy, 3 CT Simulators (1 Philips Big Bore, 2 GE LightSpeed), 1 Elekta Flexitron HDR , and 1 Varian Bravos HDR unit. Advanced technologies such as SGRT (Identify/VisionRT), HyperArc, gating, 4DCBCT, etc., are available. We offer a broad range of treatments to our patients including SRS/SBRT, respiratory gating, and brachytherapy.

All centers throughout the Karmanos Cancer Network utilize cloud hosted Eclipse treatment planning and Aria record and verify on a common system that is supported by a dedicated IT and administration team.

• Acceptance and commissioning of LINAC
• Implementation of clinical stereotactic program
• Radiation therapy equipment calibration,quality assurance
• Collaborationwith clinical and medical staff onsimulation and treatment planning
• Provide ongoing oversight of quality and safety of patient treatment delivery
• Participation in department quality assurance and continuous quality improvement programs
• Participation in clinical research efforts
• Collaboration in network physics initiatives

Requirements

• Master’s or PhD degree in medical physics or related discipline.
• Two or more years of prior work experience as a Medical Physicist or Medical Physics Resident in full-service radiation therapy center.

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Requisition ID: 26004518
• Daily Work Times: 7-3, 8-4, 9-5
• On Call: No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.

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McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status,national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classificationprotected by law.