What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Physicist position at St Lukes Health System (Boise ID)?
Overview
St. Luke's Health System in Boise, Idaho is looking for a full-time Board Certified/Board Eligible Medical Physicist to work with our highly collaborative and patient-focused team at St. Luke's Cancer Institute. The selected individual will be joining a team of physicists and physics assistants in an Aria/Eclipse environment with Varian TrueBeam linear accelerators. This role offers great work/life balance, retirement and health-care benefits, PTO, and sign-on and relocation bonuses.
Responsibilities
- Ensures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols.
- Ensures that all radiation safety requirements throughout the facility are met in collaboration with the hospital Radiation Safety Officer.
- In coordination with other team members, develops and maintains a QA program.
- Ensures that the beam and source data are accurate and correctly entered into the treatment planning system.
- Establishes treatment planning and dose calculation procedures that are used throughout the department, and ensures their accuracy.
- In consultation with the radiation oncologists and dosimetrists, oversees treatment planning and determination of radiation dose distributions in patients undergoing treatment.
- Ensures policies and procedures contain proper elements of good radiation oncology practice, delivery of treatment, radiation safety, quality control, and regulatory compliance.
- Releases a treatment machine into clinical service after maintenance, and documents that any alteration caused by the maintenance and repair schedule does not affect the accelerator performance or calibration.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
- Ensures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols.
Technologies
- 5 matched Varian TrueBeam Linacs
- 1 Varian STx TrueBeam with HDMLC
- Bravos Afterloader
- ExacTrac Dynamic Precision Patient Monitoring System
- 4 CT simulators with Varian RGSC 4DCT
- SunNuclear IC Profiler-base monthly QA procedures
- EPID Portal Dosimetry
Software
- Aria Record & Verify
- Eclipse 18
- RapidPlan
- MCO
- GPU Computing
- Brainlab
- Cranial
- Multimets
- Radformation
- AutoContour
- ClearCheck
- ClearCalc
- EZFluence
- QuickCode
Qualifications
- Education: Master’s degree in Medical Physics or a related field
- Experience: 2 years in radiation oncology physics setting or completion of CAMPEP accredited residency.
- Licenses/Certifications: Certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics (TRP) or Therapeutic Medical Physics (TMP) by the ABR or ABMP
What’s in it for you
At St. Luke’s, caring for people in the communities we serve is our mission – and this includes our own SLHS team. We offer a robust benefits package to support our teams both professionally and personally. In addition to a competitive salary and retirement plans, we ensure our team feels supported in their benefits beyond the typical medical, dental, and vision offerings. We care about you and have fantastic financial and physical wellness options, such as: on-site massages, on-site counseling via our Employee Assistance Program, access to the Virgin Pulse Wellness tool, as well as other formal training and career development offerings to ensure you are meeting your career goals.
St. Luke’s is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.
*Please note: this posting is not reflective of all job duties and responsibilities and is intended to provide an overview to job seekers.
