Sr Radiation OncologyPhysicist
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Location: Brooklyn, NY 11226
Description:
About Us
We're Maimonides Health, Brooklyn's largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system's 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and provide patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation's largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clincal progams rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.
Overview
Maimonides Medical Center is the largest hospital in Brooklyn, NY and the borough's leading independent health care system. We are currently seeking a Senior Radiation Oncology Physicist who holds a MS Degree and/or a PHD Degree in Radiation Therapy Physics or a closely related field.
Full Time, Monday-Friday
Responsibilities
Qualifications
We require:
Pay Range
USD $195,039.00 - USD $243,799.00 /Yr.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard for race, creed (religion), color, sex, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, marital status or domestic violence victim status, citizenship status, or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. MMC is committed to following the requirements of the New York State Human Rights Law with regard to non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.
We're Maimonides Health, Brooklyn's largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system's 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and provide patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation's largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clincal progams rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.
Overview
Maimonides Medical Center is the largest hospital in Brooklyn, NY and the borough's leading independent health care system. We are currently seeking a Senior Radiation Oncology Physicist who holds a MS Degree and/or a PHD Degree in Radiation Therapy Physics or a closely related field.
Full Time, Monday-Friday
Responsibilities
- Technical Guidance and Treatment Planning: Provide comprehensive technical direction to physicists and medical practitioners, developing and evaluating dosimetric components of patient treatment plans while utilizing advanced imaging procedures for simulation and treatment planning.
- Radiation Safety and Compliance: Ensure equipment compliance with regulatory and accreditation agency rules, evaluate radiation dose safety, assess radiation shielding, and develop comprehensive quality management and safety programs to protect patients, staff, and the general public.
- Equipment Management and Quality Assurance: Conduct equipment calibration, characterization, acceptance testing, preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting of radiation-producing and monitoring equipment, including accelerators, scanners, and associated computer systems.
- Consultation and Training: Provide consultation to physicians on physics-related treatment planning and radiation protection, offer training to medical practitioners on radiation oncology physics and dosimetry, and review radiation oncology treatment implementation in patient records.
- Advanced Technical Evaluation: Develop specifications for radiation therapy equipment, evaluate technical procedures prior to clinical use, measure and characterize medical radiation from therapy and simulation equipment, and assist in developing informatics specifications for radiation oncology processes.
Qualifications
We require:
- Master's Degree and/or a Doctoral Degree in Radiation Therapy Physics or a closely related field such as physics, biophysics or health physics acceptable to the Director of Radiation.
- Completion of one year of full-time training in a therapeutic physics and an additional year of full-time work experience under the supervision of a radiation therapy physicist at a medical institution.
Pay Range
USD $195,039.00 - USD $243,799.00 /Yr.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard for race, creed (religion), color, sex, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, marital status or domestic violence victim status, citizenship status, or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. MMC is committed to following the requirements of the New York State Human Rights Law with regard to non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.