CHA Career Center

You.

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Medical Physicist.

Your compassion is tangible: patients feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support.

Youâ™re equally comfortable with treatment planning, dosimetry calculations, and the delivery of radiation to patients.
 

Youâ™re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.

Us.

Our Radiation Oncology unit offers comprehensive and leading edge treatments that are making radiation therapy safer and more effective than ever before.  We provide personalized care, providing each patient with their own patient navigator who guides the patient through the entire radiation journey and providing holistic care.  The field of radiology continues to make gains in knowledge and technology, with newer methods of care constantly being tested. Some of the advanced offerings/technologies we utilize to treat our patients include:

• Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) using volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) â“ An advanced mode of high-precision radiotherapy using computer-controlled linear accelerators.


• Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) â” Administers very high doses of radiation using several beams at different angles to target the tumor.


• Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) â“ Uses radiation to treat tumors in the brain and other sensitive areas.


• TomoTherapy® â“ A type of radiation delivered slice-by-slice with help from a computer.


• 4-D computed tomography to account for respiratory motion of tumorsâ”Treatment designed to minimize the effects of motion, such as breathing, while administering radiation.


• VisionRT® - Surface-guided radiation therapy.


• 3-D conformal radiation (3D-CRT)â”Radiation treatment administered in a way to match the shape of the tumor.

We are proud to be an accredited Chest Pain Center, a Primary Stroke Center, and a private teaching hospital.

Saint Joseph Hospital is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 365-bed facility is one of the top-ranked hospitals in Denver, and has been awarded the highest national recognition possible for nursing excellence â“ Magnet designation â“ by the ANCC. We are proud to extend the mission of SCL Health by providing care for the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other. Our deep community roots date back to 1873, making us one of the oldest hospitals in Colorado.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

We.

Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll honor each otherâ™s dignity and surpass the standards we set. Weâ™ll encourage joy, demand safety and take pride in our integrity.

Weâ™ll laugh at each otherâ™s jokes (even the bad ones). Weâ™ll hello and high five. Weâ™ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day.

As a Medical Physicist, you need to know how to:

• Perform, document, and provide documentation of calibration, maintenance, compliance testing, quality control, and performance evaluations on all Radiation Oncology equipment, according to State, Federal, and JCAHO regulations to insure licensure is maintained.


• Collaborate, advise, perform, and supervise treatment planning and dosimetry. Verify all prescription calculations and notify physician of any discrepancies.


• Review, change, and write policy and procedures periodically and formally review on a yearly basis. Observe established policies and procedures regarding department and hospital guidelines, quality control, radiation safety, environmental and infection control.


• Provide staff with in service and continuing education lectures relating to radiation safety and the implementation of new techniques or procedures and functions as a resource person.


• Inform, advise, and collaborate with department supervisors and radiation oncologist to assure patient safety and quality on a continual basis.


• Generate treatment plans utilizing computer isodose plans or manual calculations which achieve optimum tumor volume coverage as outlined in the physicianâ™s prescriptions and perform specific dose calculations on individual patients upon request.


• May perform as the facility Radiation Safety Officer.


• Supervise all aspects of brachytherapy.

Your experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

• Ph.D. or Masterâ™s Degree in Medical Physics or DMP Degree, required


• Board-eligible by Therapeutic Medical Physics, required


• Current licensure in the state of practice, required


• Provisional RMP/QI/QE(t), required


• At least five (5) years of experience in Medical Physics, preferred

Your next move.

Now that you know more about being a Medical Physicist on our team we hope youâ™ll join us. At SCL Health youâ™ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.