Senior Medical Physicist - Medical Physics Lead at Stronach Regional Cancer Centre

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Job Title: Senior Medical Physicist - Medical Physics Lead at Stronach Regional Cancer Centre
Site: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Department: Medical Physics
Reports to: Head of Medical Physics
Hours: 37.5 hours per week Mon - Fri
Salary: commensurate with experience and consistent with UHN medical physics pay scales
Status: Permanent Full-time
Closing date: February 20, 2025

Position Description:

The Department of Medical Physics and the Radiation Medicine Program at the Princess Margaret (PM) Cancer Centre is seeking interested applicants to fill a permanent fulltime position of Senior Medical Physicist. While the successful candidate will be part of the leadership team of Medical Physics at PM, the role focuses on leading the Medical Physics Department at Stronach Regional Cancer Centre (SRCC) as the department head under a partnership between PM and Southlake Regional Health Centre. The responsibilities include overseeing clinical project implementation, maintaining and improving clinical processes, facilitating interdisciplinary communication, representing the SRCC Department of Medical Physics in operational committees, guiding equipment selection and facility development, supervising new technology implementation, enhancing quality assurance protocols, and ensuring smooth operation of the support services.

The successful candidate holds a PhD degree in Medical Physics or related field as well as FCCPM and have at least 8 years of clinical experience. They must be able to demonstrate leadership skills in managing a team, leading clinical operation or research. Preference will be given to candidates who have sustained academic productivity as evidenced by publications, grants, book chapters and committee activity in professional and scientific societies (COMP, AAPM, ASTRO, ESTRO, etc). Vaccines (COVID-19 and others) are a requirement of the job unless one has an exemption on a medical ground pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code.

The Radiation Medicine Program at SRCC provides advanced radiation treatment to 1700 patients annually in its catchment of York and South Simcoe regions, bringing state-of-the-art treatment closer to home. Equipment in the Radiation Medicine Program includes 5 Elekta linear accelerators of the latest models and MosaiQ as the radiation oncology information system. A Philips big-bore CT simulator and a Siemens Vision 600 PET-CT are on site for radiotherapy simulation. Our treatment planning system is currently transitioning from Pinnacle to RayStation.

The successful candidate will lead a dynamic team of 5 physicists, 2 physics associates, 3 accelerator service technologists, a physics system analyst and a physics resident in Medical Physics at SRCC. In addition to managing the clinical operation of the Medical Physics department, they will be part of the SRCC-RMP leadership team to shape and steer the program for continuation of providing safe and advanced radiation treatment to patients in the regions.

The successful candidate will also be part of the Medical Physics department at PM. They will have opportunities in participating in clinical activities, innovative research, educational activities and clinical development projects. The Department of Medical Physics at PM supports staff professional and academic growth by providing access to research and development opportunities related to topics in a set of focus areas. Topics include process automation, data science, MR-guided external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy, dose accumulation, adaptive radiotherapy, radiation dosimetry, proton therapy technology development, functional imaging for treatment response assessment and optical techniques and biophotonics in conjunction with radiation.

The department of Medical Physics at PM is active in education and training of medical physicists through its CAMPEP-accredited residency program at the University of Toronto, Department of Radiation Oncology. The department also maintains a strong relation with University of Toronto's Department of Medical Biophysics through which it recently established a CAMPEP-accredited Ph.D. program, providing robust access to top-notch graduate students. The successful candidate will be encouraged and supported to secure an academic appointment at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto.

Why join UHN?

In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.

• Competitive offer packages
• Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP https://hoopp.com/)
• Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
• A flexible work environment
• Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
• Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel, restaurants, parking, phone plans, auto insurance discounts, on-site gyms, etc.)

Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration.

All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.

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Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.

UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.