Dosimetrist Abu Dhabi

Location Overview: Experience a new culture, a new way of life and a new point of view. Fulfil your sense of adventure and take one or two years out to experience life in a foreign land. There are great opportunities for career advancement and education. Our client is located in Abu Dhabi the capital of UAE, an intriguing city where traditional mosques are surrounded by ultramodern skyscrapers, tree-lined boulevards, gleaming fountains and parks.


Primary Duties:

• Consults with Manager to deal with issues/problems and make recommendations, take action.
• Maintain patient records in relation to treatment planning. Ensures that all parameters are clearly and concisely recorded and communicated to the treatment team
• Maintains adherence to all hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
• Undertakes further training as may be requested by superiors.
• Maintains policies to ensure confidentiality of patients either within or without the computer network system.
• Interacts, communicates, and collaborates with team members in order to maximize group effectiveness. Functions as a resource for dealing with a multitude of technical questions including clinical patient treatment issues, treatment planning policy and physician related questions. Involving the Manager as needed.
• Efficiently help identify and analyze problems, recommend solutions, and seek assistance when needed. Is cognizant of the impact decisions have on others
• Provides consultations to radiation therapy technologists ,  physicians, and physicists with regard to patient set-up, simulation, target data acquisition (CT, MR, ultrasound), and treatment
• Acts as a resource for questions involving construction of lead blocks used for irregular planning and for blocking radiation exposure to normal tissue and radiosensitive structures. Also responsible for answering questions relating blocking to treatment plans
• Consults with physicians, radiation therapy technologists, and physicists in preparation and implementation of new treatment techniques
• Aids radiation therapy technologists in consideration of proper blocked field sizes for monitor unit calculations when needed. Assists with the coordination and implementation in the utilization of all accelerator accessories and capabilities, i.e. independent jaw, multi-leaf collimator, collimator rotations, couch/gantry angles, etc.
• Calculates dose reaching varying depths within patients by obtaining measurements of specific anatomic sites and entering data into the treatment planning computer to obtain irregular field dosimetry. Assures accuracy and compliance to written prescription.
• Obtains CT / MR scans for treatment planning purposes with the assistance of the Radiology Technologists. Properly positions patient. Correctly positions reference markers and obtains necessary scan slices. Consults with the diagnostic radiologist for best scan visualization.
• Provides support for intra-operative radiation therapy in the surgical suite. Consults with the physician regarding treatment optimization. Correctly calculates monitor units for dose delivery, helps Physician dock the patient, operates the accelerator, and maintains patient records.
• Other duties as required, this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties, but mainly to highlight the current main responsibilities of the post.

Experience and Education Requirements:

• BSc degree in Radiotherapy from an accredited college or equivalent;
• Current National License.
• Medical Dosimetry Certification such as CMD Certification through the Medical Dosimetry Certification Board. Candidates may also have graduated from an approved Medical Dosimetry Program through the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists AAMD and have obtained MDCB board eligible status or equivalent.
• NLT 2  years experience as a full time Medical Dosimetrist