Senior Radiation Physicist - Radiation Oncology; Medical Center

HOUSTON METHODIST EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS

• Provide personalized care and service by consistently demonstrating our I CARE values: INTEGRITY – We are honest and ethical in all we say and do. COMPASSION – We embrace the whole person including emotional, ethical, physical, and spiritual needs. ACCOUNTABILITY – We hold ourselves accountable for all our actions. RESPECT – We treat every individual as a person of worth, dignity, and value.
  
  EXCELLENCE – We strive to be the best at what we do and a model for others to emulate.
• Practices the Caring and Serving Model
• Delivers personalized service using HM Service Standards
• Provides for exceptional patient/customer experiences by following our Standards of Practice of always using Positive Language (AIDET, Managing Up, Key Words)
• Intentionally collaborates with other healthcare professionals involved in patients/customers or employees’ experiential journeys to ensure strong communication, ease of access to information, and a seamless experience
• Involves patients (customers) in shift/handoff reports by enabling their participation in their plan of care as applicable to the given job
• Actively supports the organization’s vision, fulfills the mission and abides by the I CARE values

• Refer to departmental "Scope of Service" and "Provision of Care" plans, as applicable, for description of primary age groups and populations served by this job for the respective HM entity.

• Works with therapy staff to ensure that periodic machine quality assurance is routinely and appropriately performed.
• Surveilles engineering/vendor staff work to ensure machine repairs and upgrades are adequately performed and machine performance verified.
• Provides consultation to physicians, and guidance to dosimetrists and therapists regarding best approaches to simulate, plan, image and treat patients to assure accurate delivery of prescribed radiation dosage to a specific human patient, and the associated risk.
• Supports the training of departmental personnel as needed to effectively and safely utilize equipment for patient care and the didactic education and hands‑on training for radiation oncology and medical physics residents and other trainees. Provides guidance and supervision to junior medical physicist.

• Develops specifications for radiotherapy treatment and simulation equipment, including software. Provides equipment and software evaluations of value and performance and recommendations on possible equipment and software purchases.

• Develops and participates in clinical research and development projects as well as other research projects that are consistent with departmental goals.

• Ensures that quality assurance is performed to verify proper functioning after installation, repair or upgrade of radiation treatment equipment and software. It includes acceptance testing of radiotherapy treatment and simulation equipment, calibration and characterization of radiation beams from therapeutic equipment including radiation quantity, quality, and distribution characteristics, and assessment of the mechanical and geometric optics for proper placement of the beam.
  
  It also includes calibration and/or verification of the physical and radiological characteristics of brachytherapy sources.
• Advances the implementation and management of dosimetric and beam delivery aspects of external beam delivery, brachytherapy irradiation and special procedures. External beam delivery aspects include treatment aids, beam modifiers, and geometrical arrangements. Special procedures are included for both external beam (e.g. radiosurgery, total body irradiation, total skin irradiation, intraoperative therapy) and brachytherapy (e.g. high dose rate, intravascular brachytherapy).
• Guides the acceptance testing, management, and supervision of computer systems used for treatment planning and calculation of treatment times or monitor units. This includes measurement and input of dosimetry database and verification of output for external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy.
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