Dosimetrist Jobs

At GenesisCare we want to hear from people who are as passionate as we are about innovation and working together to drive better life outcomes for patients around the world.
About This Opportunity
As a GenesisCare US Certified Dosimetrist you will be responsible for delivery of timely, high quality treatment planning, ensuring patients receive access to world class evidenced based care close to home. Working centrally within the designated Divisional Structure, you will be part of a team that embraces innovation and change and creates a Patient and Physician experience that is exceptional. You will be asked to ensure patients are planned in line with prevailing protocols and ways of working to ensure every patient at GenesisCare receives rapid access to world class care close to home.
As a Dosimetrist, you will report directly to the Dosimetry Manager in your Division who in turn reports to the Divisional Dosimetry Lead. Professionally, Dosimetry reports in-country through to Head of Physics and globally to Global Head – Clinical Technology and Innovations. In this role you will need to demonstrate flexibility and the ability to prioritize and manage time in a demanding environment and consistently role model our purpose and values. We will ask you to drive a culture of continuous improvement, delivering exceptional patient centered services.
Focus Areas For This Role

• Actively participate in the GenesisCare Dosimetry Competency and Credentialing Framework model to improve professionally.
• Act as a representative of the GenesisCare purpose, values, and strategy.
• Manage all requests for treatment planning processes in a professional and timely manner that ensures high quality outcomes including rapid access to treatment by way of the highest quality plans.
• Work within approved framework (Scope of Practice) models to ensure the provision of high-quality care to all GenesisCare patients.
• Embrace innovation to improve access to higher quality treatments that meet and/or exceed protocol requirements.
• Identify and/or develop key internal and external relationships, opportunities for future service provisions and potential referrer or doctor partnerships.
• Support all innovation, clinical trials, and research opportunities to improving outcomes for all patients.

Your Key Responsibilities
Dosimetry Excellence

• Supervise, perform, or assist in the application of specific methods of dosimetry including ion chamber, TLD, or film measurement as directed by the Medical Physicist
• Wedges, field arrangement, or other treatment variables as well as image guided radiotherapy or respiratory gating.
• Complete all specified quality assurance recording requirements on a weekly and at end of treatment basis.
• Implement approved treatment plans in accordance with protocols and policies that will deliver the radiation prescription.
• Teach applied aspects of medical dosimetry to students and residents, as assigned
• Complete Dosimetry in line with Divisional requirements and operate within your defined scope of practice (scope of practice defined by competency framework).
• Complete all specified quality assurance treatment planning processes to ensure high quality plan delivery and minimization or risk and harm.
• Deliver plans in-line with global benchmarks that align on quality, access, and efficiency.
• Interacts with patients, staff and other stakeholders in a way that embraces all 5 GenesisCare values.
• Communicate these aspects to physician for plan approval, and to the Radiation Therapist for plan implementation
• Supervise, perform, or assist in the production of associated devices
• Maintain licensure, undertake mandatory and professional development to practice safely and in accordance with all professional and regulatory requirements
• Assist the therapy staff in the implementation of the treatment plan and problem solving including: the correct use of immobilization devices, compensators,
• Practice and Follow Privacy (NSA) and HIPPA guidelines
• Assist with the planning and participate in supporting programs to ensure effective and safe use of radiation and radionuclides in patients
• Attends mandatory company training sessions as required by company policies and state/federal law where applicable
• Document the prescription in patient’s record in accordance with the Radiation Oncologist's intent and instructions.

As a Dosimetrists, you need to develop strong relationships with the following internal parties:

• Medical Physicists
• Related external specialist doctors and healthcare staff
• Service of the Future Team
• Other Dosimetrists including Lead and Specialist Dosimetrists
• Radiation Oncologists
• Radiation Therapists
• Oncology operations team and other Shared Services partners

Minimum Qualifications

• Professional Certification (or requirements for certification)
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
• 1 to >5 years of experience in medical dosimetry under the supervision of a Certified Medical Dosimetrist or Medical Physicist
• Associate of Science or bachelor’s degree in the physical or biological sciences and ARRT/RT(T) certification preferred
• Must have basic computer and typing skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with IMRT, VMAT, SRS, SBRT, IGRT.
• Travel when required to other sites and/or leadership meetings.
• Working knowledge of radiation safety and correct use of immobilization devices and other treatment variables
• Basic understanding of the technical aspects of radiation oncology, medical physics, and tolerance doses to derive computerized treatment plans
• CT/MR based HDR
• Proven ability to work within cross functional multi-disciplinary teams.
• Graduate level qualifications in a relevant area – a either Health care or business related.
• Proven ability to manage internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Completion/Participation in GenesisCare Credentialing and Scope of Practice Programs.

Specific Experience with the Following: All Preferred

• Monaco/ Mosaiq
• Eclipse/ARIA
• Elekta and Varian linacs

Our values
Empathy for all
We do all we can to understand the needs, emotions and ambitions of patients and each other. Because only through understanding can we work well together inside GenesisCare and make the necessary difference to the experience and life outcomes of the patients we treat.
Partnership, inside and out
We achieve more together than apart, so we share, listen, and work as one. Designing better care will only be possible if we work together, with each other inside GenesisCare and with people and our partners from outside, who want the same things we do and who want be part of our purpose.
Innovation every day
We all contribute insightful, innovative ideas, both big and small. Because great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, and we know that insight and evidence is the best way to unlock them, to design better care.
Bravery to have a go
We dare to make ideas happen, to make the impossible a reality, because at GenesisCare that’s our DNA. We will only fulfil our purpose if we try and learn and commit ourselves to making things happen; after all, nothing means more to us than getting you the best life outcomes possible.
Integrity always
We do the right thing for our patients, our partners and each other.
About GenesisCare
Across the world, GenesisCare has more than 440 centers offering the latest treatments and technologies that have been proven to help patients achieve the best possible outcomes. That includes 300 centers in the US as well as 14 centers in the U.K., 21 in Spain and 36 in Australia. We also offer urology and pulmonology care in the U.S. through our integrated medical offices. Every year our team of more than 5,000 employees see more than 400,000 people globally.
Our purpose is to design care experiences that get the best possible life outcomes. Our goal is to deliver exceptional treatment and care in a way that enhances every aspect of a person’s cancer journey.
Joining the GenesisCare team means a commitment to seeing and doing things differently. People centricity is at the heart of what we do—whether that person is a patient, a referring doctor, a partner, or someone in our team. We aim to build a culture of ‘care’ that is patient focused and performance driven.
GenesisCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion.
GenesisCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.