Radiation Oncology, Medical Physicist - St. Cloud, MN

Job Description

Join a collaborative team of five physicists and six fully remote dosimetrists supporting a regional cancer center with 5 sites all on a single vendor platform.

$8,000 hiring bonus and $5,000 relocation bonus available for qualified candidates

Summary
This position will support radiation oncologists that utilize a single vendor platform across our five sites located in St. Cloud (2), Monticello, Alexandria, Willmar, and Wadena.

Primary tasks include patient treatment plan checks; weekly physics chart checks, daily, monthly, and annual machine quality assurance, SRS and SBRT presence/consulting, as well as serving as a resource to the dosimetrists and physicians for special physics consultations.

Additional responsibilities include MLC-based linac SRS planning and the involvement in acceptance testing and commissioning of new treatment machines, software, or other hardware. On site presence required at our St. Cloud center while our other 4 satellites are covered by remote and by special consult presence. The physicist will also be required to perform any required daily, monthly, and annual QA for each satellites CT and linac.

Schedule

• Full-time | 80 hours every two weeks | Hybrid work (60-80% Work from Home)
• Monday-Friday | Working hours between 7:30am- 5pm
• No nights, weekends or holidays.

Pay and Benefits

• Salary range: $176,740.03 - $265,088.13 per year
  • Pay may be determined by factors such as education, experience, skills, knowledge, location, and internal equity
  • Salary and salary range are based on a 1.0 FTE, reduced FTE will result in a prorated offer rate
  • May be eligible for additional pay through bonuses, quality incentives, or production-based (RVU) compensation.
• $8,000 hiring bonus and $5,000 relocation bonus available for qualified candidates
• Benefits: Medical, dental, time off, retirement, employee discounts and more!

Qualifications
Required:

• Master's Degree or higher in Medical Physics or Applied Physics and a completed medical physics residency program
• New graduates of a medical physics program with clinical experience during studies will also meet experience requirements. 
• American Board of Radiology Certification in Radiation Oncology Physics for 5 years preferred. Will also consider American Board of Radiology eligible to be attained within first 5 years of employment.

Preferred:

• 1 year post graduate experience in a program of similar size with computerized treatment planning and comparable computerized simulator/accelerator preferred.
• 5 years post residency experience in a Varian/ARIA program of similar size with computerized treatment planning and comparable computerized simulator/accelerator experience preferred.
• ABR certified in radiation therapy physics. Strong MLC-based linac SRS planning experience preferred.

Department Information
Our department operates six beam-matched linear accelerators from Varian Medical Systems across our locations, supporting advanced treatment techniques including 3D-CRT, IMRT, VMAT, SBRT, and MLC-based linac SRS in St. Cloud, with IGRT and SGRT available at all sites. Three locations are equipped with large-bore CT simulators and PET/CT systems from Philips, while Wadena features a PET/CT unit from Siemens Healthineers. Treatment planning is performed in Eclipse with ARIA EMR and Velocity for image registration and data management. Our comprehensive physics QA hardware and software includes, but not limited to, SNC Profiler ICs, PTW Octavius 729s, PTW 3D and 1D water tanks, PTW electrometers, Varian Portal Dosimetry Package, Varian MPC, Radformations ClearCheck, ClearCalc, EZfluence, and Auto Contouring packages, Sun Nuclear StereoPhan phantom with SRS MapCheck.