Health Physicist

About the role

This position is located at the Captain James A Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) (556) - a VHA Facility and an affiliated research Medical Center that provides tertiary care treatment of veteran patients. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the primary Health Physicist/Radiation Safety Officer/Laser Safety Officer providing expert, comprehensive radiation/laser safety oversight for the Medical Center. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/15/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) Basic Requirements: Degree: Natural science or engineering that included at least 30 semester hours in health physics, engineering, radiological science, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and/or calculus. OR: Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown above, plus appropriate experience or other education; or certification as a health physicist by the American Board of Health Physics, plus appropriate experience and other education that provided an understanding of sciences applicable to health physics comparable to that described above. In addition to the above IOR you must also qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Broad knowledge of the underlying principles of X-ray producing devices and methods of assessing satisfactory performance of these systems including all types of radiographic and fluoroscopic instrumentation. Knowledge of the principles of scintigraphic devices and methods of assessing satisfactory performance of these systems including gamma cameras and sodium iodide well detectors. Automated Information Systems Security: In the performance of official duties, the incumbent has regular access to printed and electronic files containing sensitive information, which must be protected under the provision of the Privacy Act of 1974, the HIPAA implementation, effective April 14, 2003 and other applicable laws and regulations. The incumbent is responsible for (1) protecting that information from unauthorized release or from loss, alteration, or unauthorized deletion, and (2) following applicable regulations and instructions regarding access to computerized files, release of access codes, etc., as set forth in the Medical Center's Automated Information Systems Users Agreement which the incumbent signs. Information Security and Confidentiality: Manages information security within areas of responsibility to assure that computer system security and confidentiality of sensitive information is maintained, and that incumbent access to sensitive information is limited only to that which the incumbent requires to perform their duties. Acts as necessary to report and address violations of information security. Nuclear Medicine Technologist: The Nuclear Medicine Technologist (Fusion Imaging Technologist) performs technical work in support of the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Care Line, Nuclear Medicine section under the direction of a Nuclear Medicine Physician or Radiologist. The incumbent serves as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist (Fusion Imaging Technologist) with responsibility for a wide variety of nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology, and PET/CT imaging studies that require specialized knowledge and skill; in-house radiopharmacy; a wide variety of radiopharmaceutical therapies; radiation safety; clinical research; and clinical nuclear medicine technology education in the Nuclear Medicine Service at the Captain James A Lovell FHCC. Has program responsibility for equipment quality control, troubleshooting, and administrative duties of a Nuclear Medicine Technologist (Fusion Imaging Technologist) that include but not limited to Environment of Care (EOC) rounds, Trace