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Health Physicist (Radiation Safety Officer)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 54 days ago
About the Role
A Recruitment/Relocation incentive may be authorized for a highly qualified individual. The position is a Health Physicist serving as the Radiation Safety Officer of KCVA with complex uses of radioactive material and complex uses of machines that produce ionizing radiation. The RSO is responsible for managing the facility's radiation safety program, ensuring the safety of patients, staff, and members of the public, and compliance with federal regulations and VHA requirements.
What You'll Do
- →Duties of this position include, but are not limited to: Oversees a comprehensive program in support of the services or sections of Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Oncology, and various medical and surgical specialties using radioactive material or ionizing radiation in clinical, academic, and research settings under a radioactive materials permit issued by the NHPP.
- →Reviews equipment quality control parameters for imaging and therapeutic equipment including computed tomography, angiography, radiography, digital radiography and fluoroscopy, clinical linear accelerators, and positron emission tomography (PET), and possibly lasers, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
- →Provides oversight and evaluates the technical quality assurance program to determine its effectiveness and recommend and implement improvements.
- →Designs and implements training programs in line with organizational strategies related to maintaining and improving safety.
- →Adapts various available media to fit special and unique training requirements and participates in the development of novel or innovative safety training and promotion activities.
- →Provides training and instruction to nursing staff, other clinical staff, and support staff such as Environmental Management Services (housekeeping) and dietetics personnel involved in the care of patients who have been administered therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals or undergoing brachytherapy.
- →Evaluates the training and experience of the medical staff and other professional personnel relative to regulatory compliance requirements for the use of radioactive materials in clinical and research settings.
- →Advises staff regarding safety and regulatory compliance aspects of biomedical research programs and facilities involving radioactive material and equipment producing ionizing radiation.
- →In the case of research uses, reviews laboratory methods and the objectives of the research to ensure that the radiation risks to personnel are minimized and may advise principal investigators and facility research committees on other aspects of research uses such as appropriateness.
- →Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 4:00 pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Position Description/PD#: Health Physicist (Radiation Safety Officer)/PD103750 Recruitment Incentives: You may qualify for a recruitment incentive in accordance with agency policy.
- →Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Requirements
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
- ✓You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
Personality Fit
Job ID: e8df0c27-31c7-43e7-8c02-a7f0fe990679
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