Radiation Oncology Physicist VI

Utilizes in-depth knowledge of federal, state, and local requirements and established departmental safety policies and procedures to respond to escalated compliance concerns. Leads the development of corrective action plans when patient treatments do not follow established treatment directives and established radiation safety program. Coordinates protocols for tracking, reporting, investigating, and assessing impact and root-cause analysis of adverse medical events and implements corrective action as necessary. Bridges operational gaps in treatment planning activities and leads development initiatives. Leads the commissioning and maintenance activities for treatment planning systems. Consults during treatment delivery and troubleshoots challenges. Verifies radiation doses and establishes protocols and guidelines. Anticipates quality assurance outcomes and creates and devises patient-specific quality assurance programs. Ensures technical tests occur according to standards, specification, and tolerances. Resolving barriers to recalibration. Develops and implements long-term strategic improvements to patient-centered programs. Identifies technology needs and solutions and guides the installation of new equipment across functions.

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influences, mentors, and coaches team members. Practices self-leadership; creates, evaluates, and responds to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit or team members. Leads the adaptation to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members.
• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying member and operational needs; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; develops and updates new procedures and policies. Gains cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves highly complex issues; escalates and resolves issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Contributes to program improvement by: partnering with local regional and institutional leadership to implement highly complex, long-term strategic plans and procurement initiatives; leveraging comprehensive, multi-disciplinary knowledge of clinical needs and new technology and procedures to contribute the development, acquisition, and implementation of new technologies and/or improvements to patient-centered programs; overseeing efforts to determine technical specification for new equipment, guiding others through the installation of new equipment, and ensuring proper performance acceptance testing is completed after installation; overseeing and developing department training content and serving as a mentor to staff members and intervening as necessary; and serving as a subject matter expert in one or more areas of treatment technologies and/or leading the assessment of new developments in industry standards and technology, and identifying and recommending opportunities to perform clinical research (e.g., collecting and interpreting data to support conclusions) to inform best practices for improving patient outcomes.
• Performs quality assurance procedures by: anticipating quality issues and recommending innovative solutions to senior leaders, and implementing strategic plans to improve the monitoring of quality assurance outcomes for all treatment modalities; ensuring high-quality performance and supervision of appropriate technical tests to standards, specifications, and tolerances, and devising, implementing, and training quality testing procedures and tools used across the department and/or disciplines; anticipating and resolving barriers to recalibration, and monitoring and enforcing calibration deadline; and serving as a key contributor to creating and leading the implementation of patient quality assurance programs and patient specific care planning and delivery (e.g., verifying dose calculations and delivery), and monitoring program effectiveness.
• Ensures proper regulatory and safety protocols are followed by: utilizing in-depth knowledge of regulations to implement new protocols, assist and facilitate acquisition and renewal of personnel, respond to escalated compliance concerns, and use authorizations as appropriate to remain compliant with evolving federal, state, and local regulatory standards; leveraging cross-functional partnerships to address discrepancies between treatment and approved treatment directives, applying, leading development and implementation of corrective actions as needed, identifying gaps, and engaging with strategic partners to implement solutions based on their capability; and facilitate creation, implementation and coordination of corrective actions or protocol changes with departmental staff, provide recommendation for regulatory response and follow up in response to adverse medical events and elevating concerns to department leadership.
• Provides radiation treatment delivery oversight by: using expertise and specialized knowledge to consult with team members for highly complex and rare scenarios, analyze, troubleshooting challenges with consideration of multiple perspectives, and providing recommendations; leading the development of inter-disciplinary or regional policies and procedures for treatment delivery and imaging techniques across the department and works cross-functionally to improve patient outcomes; implementing new technologies and protocols for making measurements and verifying patient-specific radiation dose distributions, and use expert knowledge to establish standards, guidelines and action levels; serving as a subject matter expert for delivery systems by establishing and ensuring guidelines of validation for equipment changes and facilitating relationships with vendor representatives for maintenance, upgrades, and acceptances; and troubleshooting and resolving communicated issues and malfunctions that occur during the course of treatment, analyzing root cause, proactively assessing long term quality assurance and identifying related maintenance needs as applicable to mitigate risk of future malfunctions.
• Provides radiation treatment planning oversight by: recognizing and bridging operational gaps in treatment planning activities, and leveraging treatment planning feedback to initiate or lead development initiatives; serving as a subject matter expert for treatment planning systems by leading commissioning and maintenance activities, version and infrastructure updates and acceptances in relationship with leadership and all key stakeholder representatives; collaborate with all key stakeholders to implement new technology and procedures, ensure adoption and effective utilization during treatment planning activities; and utilizing advanced and in-depth knowledge to offer consultation services to providers and staff during highly complex and rare treatment planning scenarios to ensure high quality and accurate treatment plan design while identifying resources (e.g. vendors, external collaborators, SMEs) to drive programmatic improvements.

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

• Clinical Decision Making
• Clinical Technology Maintenance
• Hazard Mitigation
• Health Care Compliance
• Health Care Outcome Data
• Information Gathering
• Issues and Crisis Management
• Leverages Technology
• Patient Safety
• Radiology and Imaging Practice Knowledge
• Radiology and Imaging Regulation Knowledge
• Risk Management

• Masters degree in Medical Physics, Physics, Nuclear Physics AND minimum ten (10) years of experience in Medical Physics or a directly related field

• Therapeutic Medical Physics Certificate (ABR) required at hire OR Radiation Oncology Physics Certificate required at hire from American Board of Medical Physicis OR Radiation Oncology Physics Certificate required at hire from Canadian College of Physicist in Medicine

• Ph.D. in Medical Physics, Physics, Nuclear Physics or a directly related field
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in a specialty area of Medical Physics (e.g., imaging, nuclear safety and handling, high-dose radiation therapy).