Campus Lead Medical Physicist, Sunshine - FF16
- Ongoing full-time
- Peter Mac Sunshine Campus, 176 Furlong Road, St Albans, Victoria, 3021
- Base salary: $210,449.2
- Advertising from 5th December 2024 to 12th January 2025
The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre is Australia’s only public hospital solely dedicated to cancer and one of an elite group of hospitals worldwide with its own integrated cancer research program and laboratories.
Peter Mac boasts a comprehensive range of imaging, planning and treatment equipment distributed across five campuses; four metropolitan and one regional. This includes 7 Phillips Brilliance Big Bore CT scanners with 4D imaging capability, PET-CT scanner, 16 linear accelerators (15 Varian TrueBeams with advanced imaging capabilities and one Clinac), and a cloud-hosted, hospital-wide Varian Eclipse treatment planning system. We also support a variety of brachytherapy techniques.
Currently we have an opportunity to employ a campus lead physicist for our Sunshine campus. More info on the campus can be found here: Sunshine campus - Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
The Sunshine team consists of 3 permanent physicists and 1 medical physics registrar. Additional support for radiation safety, imaging and research is provided from the main campus in Melbourne. The lead role is responsible for physics operations for the site and is a core member of the campus-wide physics management team. The Physical Sciences’ department engages in a broad range of initiatives with each campus leading or participating in campus wide activities which sees most staff visit other campuses up to 10 days per year.
The ideal applicant will have technical and people leadership experience along with a desire to work with clinicians and explore opportunities for service development for patients in the region.
The successful applicant will be appointed to the position of Lead Medical Physicist, FF16. Generous salary packaging options are available.
Applications should include a curriculum vitae (including names of at least two professional referees) and a one page outline highlighting technical leadership you can bring to the Peter Mac team and what vision you have as physics lead.
Enquiries to
Prof. Tomas Kron, Director Physical Sciences, Ph: +613 8559 6925 or email tomas.kron@petermac.org
Kosta Gerontzos, Operations Mgr, Physical Sciences, (03) 8559 6926 or email kosta.gerontzos@petermac.org
Application close: 11:59pm, Sunday, 12th January 2025
Position Summary
To provide medical physics leadership and support for the Peter Mac Radiotherapy facility at Sunshine and other metropolitan sites.
Enterprise Agreement
Medical Scientists, Pharmacists and Psychologists (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2021-2025
Classification or Salary Range
Immunisation Risk Category
Category B: Position unlikely to have contact with blood or other body fluid
Key Relationships
| Internal |
- Director, Department of Physical Sciences
- Operational Business Manager, Physical Sciences
- Site Director, Sunshine
- Deputy Site Director, Sunshine
- Medical Staff
- TEAP registrars
- Radiation Therapy Staff
- Radiation Engineering Staff
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| External |
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Skills
| Essential Requirements |
- Degree in Physical Sciences and a Post graduate qualification
- Considerable experience in radiation oncology, medical physics and radiation safety
- Ability to provide radiation safety services
- Management experience
- ACPSEM certification and eligibility for registration as a Qualified Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist in Australia
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| Desirable Requirements |
- Research and development experience
- Communication and conflict resolution skills
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Certifications, Licenses & Registrations
Key Accountabilities
| Medical Physics Site Lead |
- Manages all aspects of medical physics operations at the Sunshine site
- Fosters Physical Sciences’ core principles of Safety, Quality and Innovation
- Works with Sunshine leadership team to provide high quality medical physics services
- Represents Sunshine in the Physical Sciences leadership team
- Advises the director of Physical Sciences on all relevant matters pertaining to the Sunshine campus
- Demonstrates excellent communication with all staff groups including radiation therapists, radiation oncologists and radiation engineers
- Continuously builds rapport with all staff
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| Manage the planning and provision of specialist medical physics services |
- Manages the planning and provision of quality assurance services for all patient treating equipment including Linear Accelerators, CT and SXRT
- Manages the planning and provision of patient specific quality assurance services
- Manages the planning and provision of consulting support services to the multi-disciplinary team
- Manages the planning and provision of radiation safety services for the site
- Monitors, manages, plans and initiates programs to address risks and improve quality
- Manages the planning and provision of commissioning activities
- Monitor and work closely with staff to ensure relevant departmental KPIs are met (machine QA, patient QA, radiation safety, commissioning, reports, quality, risk)
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| Advisory Services |
- Meets regularly with leadership to advise on a range of technical and scientific issues
- Manages the provision of advisory services to the multi-disciplinary team
- Manages the provision of patient advisory services
- Provides technical and scientific advice to external organisations including government bodies including ACDS, ARPANSA and DHS
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| Development |
- Manages the provision of clinical program development and integration services
- Manages the provision of implementation services for new products and technologies
- Ensures new programs and technology are implemented safely and in a timely manner
- Fosters development and integration within the multi-disciplinary team
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Key Accountabilities (Contd..)
| Co-ordinate work programs |
At Peter Mac’s Sunshine campus:
- Manages the treatment machine quality assurance program
- Manages the patient specific quality assurance program
- Manages and develops projects for non-planned work
- Manages overall work program ensuring clinical requirements are met whilst also managing development, integration and project timelines
- Ensures the quality assurance program complies with Peter Mac requirements with respect to documentation, and scope and frequency of tests
- Co-ordinates work program at Sunshine campus with activities at other Peter Mac campuses
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| Physics Equipment & Consumables |
- Manages and maintains quality assurance equipment
- Manages and maintains technical equipment and consumables
- Manages and maintains procedural documentation ensuring the safe use of equipment
- Trains and advises staff in proper use of equipment and consumables
- Ensures equipment is calibrated to appropriate standards
- Maintains equipment asset lists
- Advises management on requirements for and procurement of new equipment
- Places orders for consumables to provide timely clinical services
- Supports standardisation of equipment and procedures across all of Peter Mac.
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| Financial |
- Advises management on short term and long term costs including maintenance, consumables, repairs and new equipment
- Provides management with expertise for large expenditures such as linear accelerators and CT machines
- Advises management about resources required to run services
- Advises management about resources required to implement new technologies and services
- Manages supplier relationships and ensures all quotes, invoices and payments are timely
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| Staff |
- Supervises all aspects of on-site medical physics staff operations
- Provides sign off for on-site medical physics activities
- Promotes an environment that is positive for staff well being
- Supervises and mentors senior medical physicists, medical physicists, junior medical physicists and medical physics registrars
- Delegates work programs to ensure skills development and maintenance across all staff
- Manage rosters and on-call program
- Manages staff compliance with courses
- Manages timesheets
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WHY WORK FOR PETER MAC
- Peter Mac offer a range of benefits which support our people both personally and professionally.
- Our staff benefits include award winning facilities, professional development and events, a health and wellbeing program, flexible work practices and policies and financial benefits such as salary packaging.
- We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with a disability.
