Contract: Full-Time, Permanent (4-Day Working Week)
Senior Medical Physicist -4-Day Week- Leading Cancer Centre- Permanent Role
Join One of Ireland’s Leading Cancer Centres – A Career-Defining Opportunity
Are you an experienced Medical Physicist ready to take the next step in your career?
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join a highly established, state-of-the-art cancer centre in Cork, renowned for clinical excellence, innovation, and patient-centred care.
Due to significant service expansion, Excel Recruitment is proud to partner with this leading organisation to recruit a Senior Medical Physicist. This role offers the perfect combination of cutting-edge clinical work, strong leadership support, and exceptional work-life balance with a full-time 4-day working week.
You will be joining a collaborative, forward-thinking multidisciplinary team, working alongside an outstanding Chief Medical Physicist, where your expertise will directly contribute to advancing cancer care.
As Senior Medical Physicist, you will play a key role in the delivery and continuous improvement of Radiotherapy Physics services, contributing across treatment planning, dosimetry, imaging, quality assurance, and clinical governance. This role offers a balance of hands‑on clinical work, professional influence, and work‑life balance within an established service.
The Opportunity
Provide senior clinical and scientific expertise across Radiotherapy Physics, including treatment planning, imaging, dosimetry, and QA
Support service development, clinical governance, and risk management in line with Irish and EU radiation protection legislation and best practice
Work collaboratively within a well-established physics team under the leadership of the Chief Medical Physicist
Contribute to the optimisation of existing technologies and the implementation of new techniques and workflows
Partner with Radiation Oncology, Radiography, Nursing, and Hospital Management to deliver safe, efficient, and patient‑centred care.
Key Responsibilities:
Support the day-to-day delivery of Radiotherapy Physics services, including QA programmes for external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy
Contribute to oversight of treatment planning systems, IGRT/CBCT, and dosimetry, ensuring traceability and audit readiness
Participate in commissioning and validation of new equipment, software, and clinical techniques (e.g. VMAT, SBRT, SRS, HDR)
Assist with the development, review, and implementation of SOPs and clinical protocols
Participate in safety, quality, and governance activities, including incident learning and compliance reporting
Support teaching, training, research, and collaboration with academic and national networks.
PhD or MSc in Medical Physics or a related discipline from an accredited programme
Registered Medical Physics Expert (Ireland), or recognised European / UK training, or US (DABR) / Canadian equivalent registration
Minimum of six years’ satisfactory experience, with at least three years at senior level, in Radiotherapy, Radiological Physics, Medical Imaging, Radiation Protection, or a related field
Strong background in linear accelerator calibration and periodic quality assurance
Experience with 3D conformal radiotherapy, brachytherapy, and treatment planning systems
Essential experience with radiosurgery and IMRT / VMAT
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary clinical team
Your Rewards:
Relocation package
Competitive pay for the work employees do - base pay, performance related pay and premium pay where applicable.
Comprehensive pension plan, and company funded Death in Service Benefit x 3 times.
Critical Illness cover for all employees up to the age of 66.
Commitment to work‑life balance and employee wellness.
Fully paid maternity and paternity leave.
How to Apply:
For more information about this exciting opportunity, please contact Charlene Cooke confidentially by telephone 089 9455139 or by at ccooke@excelrecruitment.com
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