Medical Physicist | Coborn Cancer Center

This is a new position being added to our 5 member physics team. We are looking for a self-starter who can demonstrate the ability to work within our robust and team-oriented department. 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.

Schedule:

• Full-time | 80 hours every two weeks | Hybrid
• Monday-Friday | Working hours between 7:30am- 5pm
• No nights, weekends, or holidays!
• Work from home 60-80% of your schedule!

Pay and Benefits:

• Starting pay begins at $172,429.30 per year and increases with experience
• Salary range: $172,429.30 - $258,622.57 per year
  • Salary range is based on a 1.0 FTE, reduced FTE will result in a prorated offer rate
• $8,000 hiring bonus and $5,000 relocation bonus available for qualified candidates!
• Full time benefits: medical, dental, PTO, retirement, employee discounts and more!

Qualifications:

• 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.
• 1 years 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.

About Us:

Find Your Purpose at CentraCare, one of the top ranked hospitals in Minnesota, with several specialties that are ranked in the Top 40 hospitals in the country. Come work with the best and for the best at CentraCare - the largest employer in Central Minnesota and the leading provider of rural healthcare. Join our team which utilizes a single vendor platform across our five sites: St. Cloud, Alexandria, Monticello, Willmar, and our most recent center in Wadena. We are an ASTRO APEX accredited center. On site presence is 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 satellite’s CT and linac.

We currently have two radiation oncologists in St. Cloud and one in each of Monticello, Alexandria, Willmar, and Wadena. Currently, we have a team of six dosimetrists, who are 100% remote, a chief physicist, and four physicists.

We employ six beam-matched Varian TrueBeam linear accelerators, two at our main center in St. Cloud and one at each satellite center. Treatment procedures include 3D, IMRT, VMAT, SBRT, and MLC-based linac SRS in St. Cloud. All utilize IGRT and SGRT. Three sites have large bore Philips CT Simulators with OMAR, and a PET/CT. Wadena has a Siemens PET/CT unit.

The treatment planning system is Eclipse with ARIA EMR. We also employ Velocity for DICOM registrations and backup. All sites manage daily operations with ARIA and EPIC. Our list of physics QA hardware and software is, but not limited to, SNC Profiler ICs, PTW Octavius 729s, PTW 3D and 1D water tanks, PTW electrometers, Varian Portal Dosimetry Package, Varian MPC, Radformation’s ClearCheck, ClearCalc, EZfluence, and Auto Contouring packages, Sun Nuclear StereoPhan phantom with SRS MapCheck.

Qualified candidates may inquire to Carolyn Fiore at 320-251-2700, ext. 52787 or email Carolyn.Fiore@CentraCare.com

To be eligible for the hiring bonus you must be an external candidate who is hired into an eligible full-time or part-time benefited position. Previous CentraCare employees qualify if they have not worked for CentraCare for at least 9 months at the date of hire. Relocation assistance requirements: Must accept a position that offers benefits and may not have worked for CentraCare in the last 9 months. Must currently reside more than 50 miles away from Waite Park and relocate within 30 miles of Waite Park. CentraCare hiring incentives to include but not limited to, hiring and relocation bonuses may be discontinued at any time.

CentraCare has made a commitment to diversity in its workforce. All individuals including, but not limited to, individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. CentraCare is an EEO/AA employer.