Supervisory Diagnostic Medical Physicist

OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans? Duties include, but not limited to the following: This position is a Diagnostic Medical Physicist (DMP) located within the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC), a Level 1B Complexity VHA Healthcare System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, serving more than 62,000 unique patients and providing more than 60,000 radiological procedures annually across four sites of care in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, to include: Burlington County, NJCBOC, the Victor J. Saracini VA Outpatient Clinic in Horsham, Pennsylvania, and the CMCVAMC's Community Living Center (CLC). The DMP supports the clinical operations, research programs, and teaching activities that deal with ionizing radiation and radioactive material. The CMCVAMC is part of VISN 4 and serves as an acute referral center for VA healthcare facilities in eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Southern New Jersey. * The Diagnostic Medical Physicist serves as the Radiation Safety Officer overseeing a comprehensive program in support of individuals in the departments of Diagnostic Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Oncology, and various Medical and Surgical specialties using ionizing radiation in a clinical/academic/research setting under a single Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) broad scope license permit. * Instructs as needed all personnel using sources of radioactive material, but not less than once annually, concerning the As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA)program, safety procedures, disposal policy and procedures and compliance with regulations and local policy and procedures. * Inspects all facilities where radionuclides are used and stored as needed but not less than once each year for compliance with Federal regulations and local policy and procedures. * Manages the timely distribution and collection of personnel monitors and maintains records of personnel exposure including accounting for all missing or lost badges. * Responsible for budgetary requirements of the radiation safety program, including writing contracts with oversight of several contracts as the contracting officer representative (COR). * Performs dosimetry calculations for and consults with patients receiving unsealed radiopharmaceuticals. * Establishes the proper technique associated with the physical detection and quantitative measurement of radiation from internal and external contamination and exposure of radiation with the measurement of various internal dosimetry values for the various possible conditions. * Provides radiation educational services in clinical care and research areas at both the main hospital as well as associated CBOCs. * Provides consultative support to the hospital's Institutional Review Board (IRB), Institutional Biosafety Committee, and Safety Committee. * Assists PENTAD and Service Chiefs in establishing overall service goal and policies related to radiation safety and the uses of radiation sources. * Manages the storage, handling, transportation, transfer, and disposal of all radioactive materials. * Packaging and preparing the shipment of manifests, burial site licensing applications, and arrangements for off-site shipping, allotment and oversight of radioactive qualities disposed of in the sanitary sewage, air exhaust system, and by incineration. Supervisory controls: * The incumbent is responsible for planning, designing, and carrying out programs, projects, studies in terms of established requirements of specifications for meeting the objectives of the Radiation Safety Program. Coordination of the employee's work and establishment of priorities in relation to the total mission and management direction of the safety program is performed independently. * Work results submitted by the incumbent are considered technically authoritative and normally accepted without significant change. New projects and programs are evaluated with recommendations for appropriateness to the facility mission, utilization, and radiological implications. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, ,8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Compressed/Flexible:Not available. Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized.

Created: 2026-04-15