Job Description:

The Intermountain Health Hospital System is seeking a Certified Therapy Medical Physicist for an opening in Grand Junction, CO. The physicist will join a team of 4 physicians, 4 physicists (including you), and 3 dosimetrists that cover 2 cancer centers on the Western Slope.

Grand Junction has a lot to offer your career and lifestyle. Cost of living is excellent, sunshine is abundant, and the area boasts great biking, hiking, boating, golfing, and skiing in the natural beauty of our red rock landscape. Our charming downtown area is full of great shops, restaurants, art galleries and so much more.

 To show our commitment to you and to assist with your transition into our organization, we will also offer up to a $5,000 sign-on bonus, if applicable.

Posting Specifics:

• Benefits Eligible: Yes

• Hours: (20 hours)

• Shift Details: Day Shift

St. Mary’s Regional Hospital is part of Intermountain Health a nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. St. Mary’s Regional Hospital is the only Cancer Center in the region with accreditations from American Society for Radiation Oncology Program for Excellence (APEx), Commission on Cancer (COC), National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), and Center of Excellence for Lung Cancer Excellence Award (GO2).

Benefits (http://www.sclhealthsystem.org/careers/benefits/) are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and social well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

We’re proud to offer caregivers access to tuition assistance, certification assistance, up-front tuition through the PEAK (Path to Education, Advancement, and Knowledge) program, debt-free degrees, and other department education payments or employer-paid education assistance.

Scope

• Hospitals are currently equipped with all Varian linacs including three TrueBeams (one due for upgrade 2025) with ExacTrac or AlignRT, a GammaMed Plus HDR, and a Siemens CT (due for upgrade 2025).

• Citrix-based Aria R&V and Eclipse TPS including RapidPlan, MCO, and Velocity. Eclipse is supported by software from Radformation including ClearCheck, ClearCalc, Monte Carlo, EZ Fluence, AutoContour, and RadMachine.

• QA tools include a full suite of Sun Nuclear equipment including detector arrays, 3D and 1D tanks, and SunCheck QA software.

• Treatments beyond conventional include a robust SBRT and frameless SRS program, HDR brachytherapy, and radiopharmaceuticals (I-131, Y-90).

• Performs, documents, and provides documentation of calibration, maintenance, compliance testing, quality control and performance evaluations on all Radiation Oncology equipment, according to State, Federal, and JCAHO regulations to ensure licensure is maintained.

• Collaborates, advises, performs, and supervises treatment planning. Verifies all prescription calculations and notifies physician of any discrepancies.

• Reviews, changes, and writes policy and procedures periodically and formally review yearly. Observes established policies and procedures regarding department and hospital guidelines, quality control, radiation safety, environmental and infection control.

• Provides staff with in service and continuing education lectures relating to radiation safety and the implementation of new techniques or procedures and functions as a resource person.

• Informs, advises, and collaborates with department supervisors and radiation oncologist to assure patient safety and quality on a continual basis.

• Generates treatment plans utilizing computer isodose plans or manual calculations which achieve optimum tumor volume coverage as outlined in the physicians prescriptions and performs specific dose calculations on individual patients upon request.

• May perform as the facility Radiation Safety Officer.

• Supervises all aspects of brachytherapy.

Qualifications

• Ph D or Masters Degree in Medical Physics or DMP Degree required

• Board eligible by Therapeutic Medical Physics required

• Licensure in the state of practice as required

• For care sites in Colorado provisional RMP/QI/QE(t) required

• Five (5) years of experience in Medical Physics, preferred

Physical Requirements:

Hearing/listening, lifting, manual dexterity, pulling/pushing, seeing, sitting, speaking, squatting/kneeling, standing, and walking.

Anticipated job posting close date:

06/18/2024

Location:

St. Marys Regional Hospital

Work City:

Grand Junction

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

20

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$66.95 - $122.79

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/employee-benefits/) , and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers (http://www.sclhealthbenefits.org) ; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/diversity/) .

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.