National Director of Medical Physics

McKesson Corporation; Town of Texas (WI); Remote; USD 157,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a National Director of Medical Physics to lead and innovate within the US Oncology Network. This pivotal role focuses on enhancing medical physics services, ensuring adherence to safety standards, and fostering collaboration among physicists. You will be responsible for developing impactful strategies and initiatives that drive quality and efficiency in patient care. If you have a strong background in clinical radiation oncology and a passion for leadership, this opportunity offers the chance to shape the future of healthcare while working in a supportive and dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of professional experience with leadership in medical physics.
• Strong understanding of clinical workflows and dosimetry.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategies and policies for medical physics services.
• Establish relationships with physicists and promote quality standards.

Skills

Clinical Radiation Oncology Workflows

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Systems Thinking

Microsoft Applications Proficiency

Education

Degree in Medical Physics or Equivalent Experience

Tools

Microsoft Applications

Job description

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow's health today, we want to hear from you.

Current Need:

The National Director of Medical Physics is a key leadership role within the US Oncology Network. This incumbent will be a key thought leader for Medical Physics across the network, ensuring high-quality care and adherence to safety standards. The director will be responsible for developing strategies, policies, and programs that enhance medical physics services across the network.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ability to understand what practice needs and develop strategies and initiatives to address those needs

• Establish strong working relationships with physicists in the network

• Promote emerging quality and clinical practice standards across the network through the Physics Leadership Council (PLC) and R&I developed tools.

• Have in-depth understanding R&I technology and how it can be used to create efficiency and similarization across the practices.

• Be clinically respected to provide clinical gravitas to the work of the R&I team and the PLC.

• Engagement in physics issues for the JVs.

Support Clinical and Strategic Initiatives to enable growth of the Network.

• Co-develop common areas of exploration with practice physicists as well as the Radiation & Imaging team to drive initiatives that enhance productivity, quality, efficiency, patient satisfaction.

• Provide guidance on the development of strategic initiatives in radiation and imaging.

• Attend, lead or participate in calls / meetings with practice leadership, physicists and USON colleagues.

• Participate in vendor/partner meetings to assess technology, support shared roadmap development, and provide clinical expertise.

Physics Leadership Council (PLC):

• In collaboration with PLC Chair and R&I Leadership, establish strategic direction and key initiatives and provide support to execute key initiatives.

• In collaboration with the PLC Chair, prepare and/or maintain agenda topics for ROLC monthly meetings.

• Attend all PLC meetings as well as relevant working group meetings as reasonable to aid in advancing key initiatives/establish collaboration within the Network.

• Communicate with practice physicists to understand their needs and develop areas of exploration based on those needs.

Minimum Requirement:

• Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 13+ years of professional experience and 6+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills (or equivalent experience).

Critical Skills:

• Strong background in clinical radiation oncology workflows, including physics and dosimetry

• Must be able to build relationships with key leaders, staff and physicians

• Systems thinker that provides actionable solutions to complex problems

• Accountable and results oriented.

• Ability to collaborate with other teams

• Ability to assess and understand clinical and workflow data, financial reports and business reports.

• Proficient in using Microsoft applications to present and manipulate data.

Additional Knowledge/Skills:

• Lead through influence

• Time management and ongoing prioritization.

• Excellent customer service

• Must be able to work independently with minimum supervision.

• Ability to deal with ambiguity

• Exercises sound knowledge and good judgment.

• Business acumen

Work Environment:

• Remote Office / Work from Home

• Travel up to 50%

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, pleaseclick here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$157,900 - $263,100

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson's full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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