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Posted: 05-Dec-24
Location: Orlando, Florida
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Internal Number: 24042516
- Benefits from Day One
- Paid Days Off from Day One
- Career Development
Our promise to you:
Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.
Schedule: Full Time
Shift: Days
The community you’ll be caring for: AdventHealth:
- Located on a lush tropical campus, our flagship hospital, 1,368-bed AdventHealth Orlando
- We offer great benefits with immediate Health Insurance coverage
- Career growth and advancement potential
- Serves as the major tertiary facility for much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and South America
- AdventHealth Orlando houses one of the largest Emergency Departments and largest cardiac catheterization labs in the country
- We are already one of the busiest hospitals in the nation, providing service excellence to more than 32,000 inpatients and 125,000 outpatients each year
The role you’ll contribute:
Participates in the quality care of our patients by providing medical physics services at or above the state and federal requirements as well as meeting any national standards of care in radiation oncology. Actively participates in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful of all. .
The value you’ll bring to the team:
- Supports the administration of the radiation safety program, including compliance with all regulating and certifying agencies, training of staff and supervision of source ordering, handling, waste removal and disposal
- Actively participates in developing new programs and technologies such as information management, treatment planning and new modalities
- Performs weekly chart reviews and other checks of treatment plans
- Performs dosimetry calculations for external beam, brachytherapy, and radiopharmaceutical therapy
- Provides medical physics consultation to physicians, staff and patients as needed, including radiation safety for patients and family
- Participates in the quality assurance of linear accelerators, simulators, HDR units and any other radiation therapy treatment device.
- Performs acceptance testing and commissioning of new equipment.
- Performs all required weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually performance testing on equipment
- May assist in physics coverage of other radiation oncology locations as directed by Chief Physicist.
- Provides clinical guidance of dosimetrists and board eligible medical physicists and provides feedback in their annual evaluations.
- Provides treatment coverage as outlined by Federal and State regulation and department SOP.
- Prepares patient treatment planning related data as requested from authorization for release of protected health information records release.
- Participates in research and development either individually or as part of a broader clinical team in including support for clinical trials.
- Supervises medical physicist assistants or medical physics residents in compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements and appropriate professional documents (e.g., AAPM reports).
The expertise and experiences you'll need to succeed:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Master’s in physics or related field
- Three years of clinical radiation therapy physics’ experience
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE PREFERRED:
- Knowledge of brachytherapy
