Physicist - Radiation Oncology - Kelsey Seybold Clinics: Main Campus

$10,000 sign on bonus to external candidates

Explore opportunities with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, part of the Optum family of businesses. Work with one of the nation's leading health care organizations and build your career at one of our 40+ locations throughout Houston. Be part of a team that is nationally recognized for delivering coordinated and accountable care. As a multi-specialty clinic, we offer care from more than 900 medical providers in 65 medical specialties. Take on a rewarding opportunity to help drive higher quality, higher patient satisfaction and lower total costs. Join us and discover the meaning behind Caring. Connecting. Growing together.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• The Physicist is a leading member of the radiotherapy team responsible for ensuring the safety of patients, medical staff, and the public and improving quality of care to ensure accurate imaging and treatment of disease
• These outcomes are achieved through numerous and varied activities, including administrative, clinical, educational, informatics, equipment performance evaluation (EPE), quality, and safety
• Medical physicists are uniquely trained to contribute scientific advice and resources to solve technical and clinical problems relating to radiotherapy as well as to introduce new therapeutic procedures and tests using existing or new technologies
• The Physicist collaborates with other Radiation Oncology team members to help deliver safe, effective and high-quality patient care
  

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's or doctoral degree in physics, medical physics, biophysics, radiological physics, medical health physics, or equivalent disciplines from an accredited graduate program
• 2 years postgraduate
• Active Full or Temporary Medical Physicist (FMP) license in Therapeutic Radiological Physics under Texas Occupations Code §602 is required within three (3) months of employment start date
• Active certification or in process by:
  • The American Board of Radiology; or
  • The American Board of Medical Physics; or
  • The Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine
• Experience in EBRT: 2D/3D/4D, IMRT/VMAT; SBRT; motion management (e.g., breath hold, SGRT), CT simulation, Image registration
• Experience with Varian technology including:
  • TrueBeam radiotherapy system,
  • Treatment planning system (Eclipse)
  • Oncology information system (ARIA)
  • Surface guidance (Vision RT/OSMS) Experience in quality management, process improvement, and incident learning
• Medical physics practice knowledge
• Radiotherapy patient care and procedural skills
• Systems-based practice
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Professionalism
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or doctoral degree in medical physics, radiological physics, or equivalent disciplines from a CAMPEP accredited graduate program
• Completion of a residency in medical physics, radiological physics or equivalent disciplines from a CAMPEP accredited residency program    
• 5 years postgraduate professional experience In addition to A., Experience in SRS, SRT
• Experience with Varian technology including:
  • Edge radiotherapy system
  • Real-time motion management (gating via SGRT, RPM, triggered imaging)
  • Mobius and Dose Lab QA systems
  • Portal Dosimetry
• Experience with third party systems including:
  • Sun Nuclear QA systems including DQA3, Profiler, ArcCheck, 1D tank
  • Radformation QA systems
  • SNC 3D scanning system
• Experience with GE CT simulation Experience in change management, safety culture
• Familiarity with Texas Radiation Control
• Regulations

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $200,000 to $275,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.