Medical Physicist; UNCR

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Posting Open Date: 01/09/2026
Open Until Filled:
Yes
Position Type:
Permanent Faculty

Working Title:

Medical Physicist (UNCR)
Appointment Type:
Open Rank
Vacancy
Full-time/Part-time:
Full-Time Permanent
Hours Per Week: 40
Fte: 1

Position Location:

North Carolina, US
Hiring Range:
Dependent on Experience
Proposed

Start Date:

04/01/2026

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care:
We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education:

We prepare tomorrow’s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research:
We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

The Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of North Carolina Cancer Care Center at Rockingham (Eden, NC) is seeking a medical physicist to provide clinical radiation therapy physics services. The University of North Carolina Cancer Care Center at Rockingham (UNCR) is part of the broader University of North Carolina Cancer system. The Department of Radiation Oncology at Rockingham works under the guidance and oversight of the main Radiation Oncology Department located at the University of North Carolina Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, NC.

The Rockingham facility is staffed by one radiation oncologist and one physicist (the position under consideration) and four radiation therapists, treating between 10 – 20 patients per day with 3‑D, IMRT/VMAT, SBRT treatments on a single Elekta Infinity linear accelerator. Dosimetry services are provided by the dosimetry staff at UNC Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC. Treatment planning is conducted on Raystation (Raysearch Labs);
Record and Verify uses Mosaiq. Both Raystation and Mosaiq run on Citrix and are fed from centralized servers that serve the entire UNC Radiation Oncology system, consisting of UNCR, UNC McCreary Cancer Center (Lenoir, NC), UNC Rex Cancer Center (Raleigh, NC), and UNC Cancer Center, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, NC.

The successful candidate will provide clinical radiation therapy physics services for UNCR’s Radiation Therapy program and will serve as Radiation Safety Officer. The candidate will also perform staff physicist duties such as chart checking, machine calibrations, and quality assurance. Chart checking will include both UNCR and UNC…