Medical Dosimetrist - Cyberknife - Hopewell - FT - Day

Work Shift:

Capital Health is the region's leader in providing progressive, quality patient care with significant investments in our exceptional physicians, nurses and staff, as well as advance technology. Capital Health is a five-time Magnet-Recognized health system for nursing excellence and is comprised of 2 hospitals. Capital Health Medical Group is made up of more than 250 physicians and other providers who offer primary and specialty care, as well as hospital-based services, to patients throughout the region.

Position Overview:

• Considers dose-limiting structures in the design of treatment plans. Performs secondary manual calculations of treatment monitor unit calculations.
• Interfaces without assistance in all patient treatment parameters and calculations in the record and verify system. Completes patient treatment charts with appropriate data for daily radiation treatments.
• Takes patient measurements necessary to generate treatment plans; views x-rays and CT Scans for positions and size of lesions; makes contour of patient, inputs information into computer to simulate patient's condition.
• Ensures correct billing entry for all physics planning procedures.
• Assists in intracavity and interstitial brachytherapy procedures and in the subsequent manual and/or computer calculation of the dose distribution of these treatments.
• Participates in devising unique patient immobilization devices and in acquiring patient contour structures.
• Verifies all beam modifiers used for patient treatments, which include wedges and tissue compensators.
• Participates in the planning of the design of compensation filters,custom shields, wedges and other beam modifying devices.
• Supervises the therapist staff in the implementation of the treatment plan including the correct use of immobilization devices, compensators, wedges, filed arrangement and other treatment variables.
• Attends weekly chart checks, and performs the Quality Assurance review of the treatment chart. Performs the weekly physics chart check review, as needed.
• Responds to Therapist's patient dimension checks and exercises discretion and judgement to recalculate treatment plan as required.
• Maintains quality assurance for all related dosimetry treatments and treatment machinery; identifies errors in treatments and plans subsequent treatments to alleviate those errors.
• Provides physics and technical support to the Medical Physicist, in radiation protection, qualitative machine calibrations, and quality assurance of the radiation oncology equipment.
• Teaches applied aspects of medical dosimetry to radiation therapy students and residents as assigned along.
• Participates in continuing education in the area of current treatment planning techniques and advances in medical dosimetry.

Offers are contingent upon successful completion of our onboarding process and pre-employment physical. Capital Health will require all applicants (including contractors, travelers and consultants) to have an annual flu vaccine prior to start date, with the exception of individuals with medical and religious exemptions.

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