Job Details

Job Summary:

Manages and conducts quality control and regulatory compliance programs for diagnostic and radiologic imaging. Leads medical physics program management by reporting on the performance of imaging equipment, reviewing and evaluating reports and signing off of uncertified physicists, and providing feedback. Ensures safety and quality assurance by helping team members develop partnerships with physicians, sites, and other stakeholders on matters related to ionizing radiation and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) safety. Ensures compliance by ensuring adherence to guidelines from appropriate regulatory agencies at the federal, state, and county level among team members. Manages training and education activities.
Essential Responsibilities:

• Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units. Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders.
• Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate. Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.
• Ensures compliance by: ensuring adherence to and overseeing the implementation of established policies and procedures; ensuring adherence to guidelines from appropriate regulatory agencies at the federal, state, and county level among team members; and overseeing the production of data and images necessary to meet the requirements of accreditation bodies.
• Manages and conducts quality control and regulatory compliance programs for diagnostic and radiologic imaging by: overseeing the teams delivery of medical physics services to ensure the provision of high-quality diagnostic imaging; and performing and reviewing the results of imaging surveys, reports, and audits, and ensuring compliance with regulatory shielding design requirements.
• Leads medical physics program management by: managing a program for personnel exposure monitoring to ensure that ionizing radiation exposure to physicians and staff are maintained at levels as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA); managing an effective program of medical radiation physics instruction to prepare diagnostic physics residents to pass the American Board of Radiology (ABR) certification exam; updating team and participating in regional, divisional, and national committees and task forces on industry trends that will impact product selection and technology initiatives for new diagnostic imaging technologies; and reporting the performance of imaging equipment, reviewing, evaluating reports, and signing off on uncertified physicists, and providing feedback.
• Ensures safety and quality assurance by: helping team members develop partnerships with physicians, sites, and other stakeholders on matters related to ionizing radiation and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) safety; ensuring adherence by team to policies, practices, and procedures related to the safe and compliant use of ionizing radiation and radioactive materials to assure a safe environment for patients, employees, physicians, and visitors; managing the provision of on-site surveys of radiation safety compliance status, in-service radiation safety training to staff and physicians, and other radiation safety-related support as needed; managing nuclear medicine and radioactive material surveys, dissemination of reports, and provision of consulting services on ionizing radiation safety for applicable facilities and/or patients to meet the organizations and/or regulatory or professional standards; implementing and developing quality assurance, safety, and evaluation programs for applicable diagnostic imaging equipment that ensure high quality images and meet regulatory requirements; encouraging team members to serve on internal and external committees, including area radiation safety committee meetings; assisting sites with the management of quality assurance activities of radiologic and nuclear medicine technologists to ensure adherence to established quality assurance policies and procedures; and establishing and ensuring the maintenance of Computerized Tomography (CT) and fluoroscopic diagnostic reference levels for quality control purposes.
• Manages training and education activities by: managing the implementation and maintenance of ionizing radiation safety education; managing the training of resident/junior medical physicists and medical physics assistants; providing comprehensive instruction in medical radiation physics to diagnostic imaging technologists, radiology residents, and equipment service engineers; and support team members in maintaining up-to-date technical knowledge of new and developing diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine technologies and regulatory issues.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years of experience in physics project or team leadership roles with or without direct reports.
• Masters degree in Medical Physics or Health Physics, or related field from a recognized accreditation body AND minimum six (6) years of experience (including a maximum of two [2] years of residency) in medical physics applied to diagnostic imaging and radiation safety, or a directly related field.

• Diagnostic Imaging Physics Certificate required at hire OR Diagnostic Medical Physics Certificate (ABR) required at hire

• Nuclear Medical Physics Certificate (ABR) required at hire OR Medical Health Physics Certification required at hire OR Magnetic Resonance Safety Expert Certification required at hire OR Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation Certification required at hire OR Magnetic Resonance Imaging Physics Certification required at hire from American Board of Medical Physicis

Additional Requirements:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Health Care Compliance; Prioritization; Legal And Regulatory Requirements; Quality Assurance Process; Service Focus; Computer Literacy; Organizational Skills; Member Service; Medical Imaging Equipment; Radiology and Imaging Regulation Knowledge; Radiology and Imaging Practice Knowledge; Training; Change Management; Health Care Policy; Medical Terminology

Preferred Qualifications:

• Nuclear Medical Physics Certificate from the American Board of Radiology or Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation Certificate from the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine.
• Medical Health Physics Certification from the American Board of Medical Physics.

Primary Location: California,Berkeley,Berkeley Biomedical Engineering
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-PO-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Manager with Direct Reports
Department: Berkeley Biomedical Engineerng - Biomed-Imaging - 0308
Pay Range: $222600 - $287980 / year Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente.
Travel: Yes, 15 % of the Time
Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.