| About The Mount Sinai Hospital
Founded in 1852, The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the country's oldest and largest voluntary teaching
hospitals. Mount Sinai is internationally acclaimed for excellence in clinical care, education, and scientific research in nearly every aspect of medicine. Mount Sinai's 1,171-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital with a medical staff of nearly 1,800 provides physicians who deliver the most advanced and compassionate inpatient and outpatient care. Located at 98th Street and Madison Avenue. The Mount Sinai Hospital serves Manhattan's Upper East Side of Harlem. Mount Sinai's state-of-the-art facilities include the unique Guggenheim Pavillion, the first hospital designed by internationally renowned architect I.M. Pei. Here, the most advanced scientific tools for diagnosis and treatment join an uplifting ambiance that uses natural light and space to keep patients' spirits bright and promote healing. Physicist
Job Description:
The Physicist must be available 24 hours on-call for occasional emergency cases and therapy patients and provide coverage at outlying locations. Overseeing the inspection of radioactive materials laboratories use, Overseeing the waste management program which entails establishing and monitoring appropriate controls, pickup and disposal. Overseeing, conducting and documenting radiation safety surveys and compliance audits, calibration of radiation instrument measuring devices, patient surveys and personal badge monitoring system. Overseeing the Medical Center's future cyclotron for radiochemical and radiopharmaceutical production, including professional and technical personnel training and record keeping reviews of clinical and research records for the PET Isotope Laboratory.
Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with New York City Department of Health, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Permit for the discharge and disposal of radioactive material to the environment, in addition to basic health physics support. Duties include: Review of applications for the use of radioactive material. Development and presentation of radiation safety training programs including participating in education and safety programs for employees throughout the Medical Center and training RSO subordinate staff.
Supervision and evaluation of Radiation Safety Office technical support staff, development of a Radiation Safety Office Quality Assurance and Procedure Manual, serving as an advisor to responsible investigators, architects, physicians and administrative officers of affiliated institutions regarding appropriate design of facilities where radioactive material and/or x-ray producing equipment will be used, overseeing development of RSO management software and the RSO website, ensuring compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and guidelines of regulatory agencies and investigation and analysis of incidents and badge exposures including documentation of appropriate corrective action recommendations. Other technical and administrative responsibilities as directed by the Director of the Radiation Safety Office
Job Qualifications:
M.S. or Ph.D. Degree with emphasis on Health Physics and radiation safety, and at least five years of related experience in radiation safety in a healthcare setting. Certification by the ABHP, ABR or ABMP is highly desirable, ability to set priorities, meeting deadlines, taking initiative and work independently. Excellent organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills required. Excellent verbal, written and personal communication skills are required. Computer support and project management skills, including ability to manage and develop RSO management software and the RSO Website are desirable.
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