Scientific Officer

Your life’s best work!
GenesisCare has an exciting opportunity for a Scientific Officer to join our team to assist in the provision of clinical physics and quality assurance services St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. As a Scientific Officer, you’ll work with medical physics specialists to ensure that there is a safe, efficient and effective radiotherapy physics service including radiotherapy equipment commissioning, quality assurance, dosimetry and treatment planning. This role is ideally suited to students looking to gain practical experience before applying to the TEAP program.

Critical to your success in this role, will be your ability to build and maintain strong relationships with Centre Leaders, Radiation Therapists, Engineers (internal and external) and Physicists across the network.

On offer is a casual position.

More specifically, you will (under supervision by qualified Medical Physicists):

• Maintain accurate dose output calibration and appropriate physics quality assurance within a specific area of clinical specialisation, in accordance with the relevant national and international standards.
• Perform highly accurate routine and non-routine dosimetry and geometric quality assurance measurements on assigned radiotherapy modalities to ensure that it remains within clinically acceptable tolerances.
• Assist with the implementation and on-going maintenance of absolute dosimetry equipment and practices, in accordance with the relevant national and international standards.
• Assist in the collection, processing and analysing of radiation beam data from radiotherapy equipment for entry into treatment planning systems.
• Perform established quality assurance tests of functionality following upgrades to critical computer networks or special radiotherapy software.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, Applied Physics, Medical Physics, or a closely allied field of study.
• Demonstrated effective (written and verbal) communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate an ability to interact appropriately with cancer patients.

Benefits of joining our team:

• Working with a vibrant team aligned with providing the best patient experience possible and outcomes.
• Internal and external training and development opportunities.
• Close knit internal community.
• All employees and their family members have access to free confidential support that is completely external to GenesisCare including financial, nutritional and wellbeing coaching, legal advice & counselling.
• Learn and grow with our award-winning development programs. 
• Free access to thousands of LinkedIn training courses.
• Range of benefits available: Qantas membership discount, gym membership discount, 12 weeks paid parental leave, Bupa discount.

About GenesisCare

We are 1,300+ highly trained healthcare professionals and support staff in Australia designing innovative treatments and care for people with cancer. Our dedicated teams treat more than 30,000 patients annually.

People centricity is at the heart of what we do whether that person is a patient, a referring doctor, a partner or someone in our team. We aim to build culture of care that is patient focused and performance driven. Our people promise is "do your life's best work, by always growing, having a profound human impact and making great things happen together." If you'd like to make a difference, join us at GenesisCare.

Covid 19 Vaccination Requirement

In line with the Public Health Order, all GenesisCare employees are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. To be eligible for consideration to perform work for GenesisCare, all recruits must provide evidence of vaccination and comply with the requirements of the Public Health Order prior to appointment.