Medical Physicist - Advocate Health Good Shepard Hospital FT HYBRID

Job description

Department: 37305 AMG Corporate - Cancer: Medical Physics Status: Full time Benefits Eligible: Yes Hou rs Per Week: 40 Schedule Details/Additional Information: Hybrid physicist position Pay Range: $86.75 - $138.80 Major Responsibilities: Provision of operational aspects of Medical Physics. 1)Prepares and delivers continuing education to the radiation oncology staff as it relates to medical physics, equipment, and radiation safety. Also performs or coordinates annual inservices for the department. 2)Performs acceptance testing and performance verification of xray equipment in the radiation oncology department. 3)Coordinates the maintenance of instrumentation required for quality control, image quality, and patient treatment measurements. 4)Designs and fabricates treatment aides and treatment beam modifiers as needed. 5)Consults with radiation oncologists and treatment staff on the physical and radiobiological aspects of patients' treatments and development of treatment plans. 6)Acquires and stores data needed for treatment and treatment plans in the planning computer. 7)Calculates dose distributions and machine settings for patient treatments. 8)Develops techniques (hardware, softwa...