Role Description
This role involves providing physics support for radiotherapy services at a leading cancer centre.
About the Role
We have four metropolitan and one regional campus, offering a world-class network of imaging, planning and treatment facilities. Our equipment includes 7 Philips Brilliance Big Bore and Siemens SOMATOM CT scanners with 4D imaging, a PET-CT scanner, 16 Varian TrueBeam linear accelerators, a cloud-hosted, hospital-wide Varian Eclipse treatment planning system, and a wide range of brachytherapy techniques.
About the Department
Our Physical Sciences team consists of 41 medical physicists, including 5 in training. We provide essential physics support for all radiotherapy services at our centre, including commissioning and QA of equipment, radiation safety, clinical dosimetry, and planning support for specialized treatments.
Key Accountabilities
1. Participate and co-coordinate routine quality assurance tasks to comply with our requirements.
2. Provide effective clinical support with the ability to be available for physics consultations and routine tasks as requested by the site lead.
3. Develop strong problem-solving ability and proactively contribute to solving clinical problems involving clinical objectives, technical and scientific expertise.
4. Work effectively in medical physics teams, demonstrating self-motivation and initiative in addressing problems, and maintaining good rapport with all staff.