Medical Physicist

Description

• Location: UCHealth UCHlth Harmony Campus 2121, US:CO:Fort Collins

• Department: PVH Radiation Oncol

• FTE: Full Time, 1.0, 80.00 hours per pay period (2 weeks)

• Shift: Days

• Pay: $87.21 - $130.82 / hour. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience

UCHealth is expanding its Radiation Oncology services in Northern Colorado and is hiring two board-certified or board-eligible medical physicists to join its growing, collaborative team at our Fort Collins Campus. Chosen applicants will join a group of 8 physicists, split between the new site at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland and the existing Poudre Valley Hospital Harmony Campus in Fort Collins, alongside 8 dosimetrists and 5 radiation oncologists.

Our busy program features robust stereotactic, LDR, and HDR brachytherapy programs. The northern region of UCHealth is supported by:

• 4 Varian Truebeams and 1 Varian Edge (total)

• Aria v18.2 and Eclipse v18.1.1

• Radformation software suite

• Comprehensive suite of Sun Nuclear QA equipment

The team emphasizes flexibility and work life balance with options such as four 10-hour shifts and shared coverage within a fast-paced, well-supported environment that has steady year-over-year growth.

Located near Denver, Fort Collins offers a high quality of life with outdoor recreation, vibrant food and art scenes, and Colorado State University

Relocation: Qualified candidates may be eligible for relocation assistance up to $10,000.

Summary:

Responsible for ensuring the safe and effective delivery of radiation therapy to patients. This role involves collaborating with radiation oncologists, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists to design and implement treatment plans, calibrate and maintain radiation equipment, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

Responsibilities:

• Performs equipment calibration, maintenance and quality assurance (QA) testing on treatment devices to ensure they are operating within specified parameters, addressing technical issues or discrepancies, patient-specific quality assurance testing, and routine maintenance testing and troubleshooting equipment problems to minimize downtime.

• Supports treatment plan development and review, including collaboration with physicians and dosimetrists during the treatment planning process, review and approval of patient treatment plans, and ensuring accuracy and clinical protocol compliance of dosimetry calculations.

• Supervise special procedures, such as SRS/SBRT treatment sessions or brachytherapy procedures, and ability to cross-cover most clinical responsibilities.

• Professional development, clinical projects, and participation in Quality Improvement/Process Improvement.

Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and take appropriate action.

Requirements:

• Master's degree in in Medical Physics, Physics, Radiation Biology or related field.

• American Board of Radiology (ABR) certified or board eligible within 2 years. Relevant certification as determined at position level.

• ADDITIONAL POSITION LEVEL CREDENTIAL INFORMATION: Board eligible with completion of board certification or QMP within 2 years.

• Successful completion of an approved residency program thru Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP) is required prior to start date.

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UCHealth offers a Three Year Incentive Bonus to recognize employee's contributions to our success in quality, patient experience, organizational growth, financial goals, and tenure with UCHealth. The bonus accumulates annually each October and is paid out in October following completion of three years' employment.

UCHealth offers their employees a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package (benefit eligibility is based off of FTE status):

• Medical, dental and vision coverage including coverage for eligible dependents

• 403(b) with employer matching contributions

• Time away from work: paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence; start your employment at UCHealth with PTO in your bank

• Employer-paid basic life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options

• Employer paid short term disability and long-term disability with buy-up coverage options

• Wellness benefits

• Full suite of voluntary benefits such as flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care, health savings accounts (available with HD/HSA medical plan only), identity theft protection, pet insurance, and employee discount programs

• Education benefits for employees, including the opportunity to be eligible for 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educational degrees. Other programs may qualify for up to $5,250 pre-paid by UCHealth or in the form of tuition reimbursement each calendar year

Loan Repayment:

• UCHealth is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program! UCHealth provides employees with free assistance navigating the PSLF program to submit their federal student loans for forgiveness through Savi.

UCHealth always welcomes talent. This position will be open for a minimum of three days and until a top applicant is identified.

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