Medical Physicist -Senior Dr soliman fakkeh hospital

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Planning and discussing radiotherapy treatment plans in discussion with radiation oncologists and other staff.
• Cooperates closely with Radiation Oncologist to add technical results to patient reports.
• Training and advising other junior medical physicists and Radiation therapy technicians on new equipment and protocols to achieve the best available practice.
• Advising other health professionals, including radiotherapy technicians, nurses about standard Radiotherapy clinical practice.
• Discusses and negotiates with Radiation Oncologists to determine the best radiotherapy techniques and planning for patients, in alignment with the latest evidence-based practices.
• Processing complex patient images in radiotherapy planning verification treatment.
• Acts as the on-call physicist, responding to problems and providing advice and technical assistance when needed.
• Researches new developments and techniques in radiotherapy practice according to evidence-based practices and reviews existing local practices.
• Advises on the procurement of new equipment when needed and helps initiate necessary changes.
• Commissioning new equipment or upgrade available equipment to achieve the best current practice.
• Monitoring equipment periodically to guarantee consistent output achieved and to ensure that regular recommended maintenance done periodically as needed.
• Develops policies for the operating equipment and ensures their implementation.
• Establishing and implementing radiation safety policies and procedures as indicated by standard of care guidelines and local authorities in radiotherapy department.
• Providing quality control to all Radiation therapy equipment.
• Performs dosimeter for radiotherapy machines.
• Educates patients and their families about health conditions, treatments and preventative measures if applicable.