Senior Managing Diagnostic Physicist

Job Summary

Manages and conducts quality control and regulatory compliance programs for diagnostic and radiologic imaging. Leads medical physics program management by reporting on the performance of imaging equipment, reviewing and evaluating reports and signing off of uncertified physicists, and providing feedback. Ensures safety and quality assurance by helping team members develop partnerships with physicians, sites, and other stakeholders on matters related to ionizing radiation and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) safety.

Ensures compliance by ensuring adherence to guidelines from appropriate regulatory agencies at the federal, state, and county level among team members. Manages training and education activities.

• Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross‑functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units.
  
  Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making;
  
  fosters access to stakeholders.
• Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results;
  
  assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate. Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.
• Ensures compliance by: ensuring adherence to and overseeing the implementation of established policies and procedures; ensuring adherence to guidelines from appropriate regulatory agencies at the federal, state, and county level among team members; and overseeing the production of data and images necessary to meet the requirements of accreditation bodies.
• Manages and conducts quality control and regulatory compliance programs for diagnostic and radiologic imaging by: overseeing the team's delivery of medical physics services to ensure the provision of high‑quality diagnostic imaging; performing and reviewing the results of imaging surveys, reports, and audits, and ensuring compliance with regulatory shielding design requirements.
• Leads medical physics program management by: managing a program for personnel exposure monitoring to ensure that ionizing radiation exposure to physicians and staff are maintained at levels as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA); managing an effective program of medical radiation physics instruction to prepare diagnostic physics residents to pass the American Board of Radiology (A ) certification exam; updating team and participating in regional, divisional, and national committees and task forces on industry trends that will impact product…