Radiation Therapist

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Radiation Therapist

Jupiter, FL

Do your life's best work!

The Radiation Therapist coordinates, plans, and administers high quality and comprehensive age/disease appropriate radiotherapy to oncology patients of all age groups by utilizing equipment, computers, and established techniques to ensure a positive patient experience. Demonstrating radiation safety standards with patient and staff members is essential.

What you'll do:

• Prepare or construct equipment, such as immobilization, treatment, or protection devices.

• Position patients for Simulation and Treatment with accuracy, according to prescription

• Administer prescribed doses of radiation to specific body parts, using radiation therapy equipment according to established practices and standards.

• Properly document simulations, treatments and patient care activities in the EMR.

• Assists other department with matters of proper documentation

• Check radiation therapy and simulation equipment to ensure proper operation following established quality assurance and warm-up procedures.

• Reports machine and equipment problems following the established procedure.

• Review prescription, diagnosis, patient chart, and identification before initiating treatment.

• Follow principles of radiation protection for patient, self, and others- ALARA.

• Observe and reassure patients during treatment and report unusual reactions to physician.

• Respond to medical emergencies by calling 911 and notifying the physician, nurse and supervisor on duty immediately. Document the time 911 is called and the time responders arrive.

• Check for side effects, such as skin irritation, nausea, or hair loss to assess patients' reaction to treatment; notify appropriate staff (Lead/Sr. Therapist, Nurse or Physician)

• Educate, prepare, and reassure patients and their families by answering questions, providing physical assistance, and reinforcing physicians' advice regarding treatment reactions or posttreatment care.

• Efficiently coordinates and plans patient schedule(s) to optimize resources

• Interacts with both internal and external customers professionally

• Train or supervise students and assist with acclimating newly hired Radiation Therapists

• Attend and participate in mandatory work related meetings and training sessions including Chart Rounds.

• Perform documented chart reviews and reports issues to the Lead or Sr. Therapist.

• Assigns Tasks using the electronic health record- EMR to communicate pending work.

• Provide float coverage during idle time to other areas of operation.

• Depending on the location the Radiation Therapist must be able to operate all types of radiation therapy machines and CT simulator technology at assigned location utilizing the latest treatment techniques including 3D Conformal, IMRT, SRS/SBRT, IGRT, and Brachytherapy

• Cross Training - develops plan with Lead or Sr. Therapist to cross-train on equipment and technology where unfamiliar, but allowed under licensure or certification.

• Maintain a productive relationship with the physics and dosimetry departments. Follow established practice patterns to ensure the timely readiness of treatment plans, including QA for initiating patient treatment and follow-up.

• Understands the possibility for after hours and weekend therapist coverage as assigned.

• Follow the code of ethics and practice standards set by the ARRT and ASRT.

• Compliant with all licensure and certification requirements to perform job as required by State law and company policy.

• Monitors supply levels of department and reports to supervisor before zero inventories.

Who you are:

• Graduate of an approved School for Radiation Therapy.

• ARRT Registered Technologist (T)

• State licensed (mandatory where required)

• Must be in good standing with all CE and license requirements.

• CPR certified

• Computer literate, to include experience with the following: Record and verify applications; treatment delivery applications; EMR; OWAN; GenesisCare Email; DTS; Intranet; MS Office Suite

What's in it for you:

• Own your development, learn every day and be part of GenesisCare's rapid growth

• Internal career development opportunities globally in USA, UK, Spain & AU

• Thriving close-knit culture and communities and supportive environment with encouragement to live your highest potential

• Ongoing opportunities for professional development to keep up to date with current clinical practices in a rapidly developing global organisation

• A rewarding purpose-led organisation that provides positive outcomes to patients everyday

• The opportunity to work for one of the most influential healthcare providers pioneering the way forward in innovation for cancer treatments & heart disease

• Fast paced, high performing & agile working culture with lots of change due to our rapid growth

• All employees and their family members have access to free confidential support that is completely external to GenesisCare including financial, nutritional and wellbeing coaching, legal advice & counselling

• Learn and grow with our award-winning development programs

• Free access to thousands of LinkedIn training courses

Who we are:

We are 6000+ highly trained healthcare professionals and support staff across the United States, Australia, the U.K, Spain and China, designing cancer and heart disease treatments to help patients achieve the best possible life outcomes.

Global care

Across the world, we have more than 580+ centres to help us bring the right care to our patients. Every year our team sees more than 1.4 million patients globally across our Oncology, Cardiology & Sleep Medicine Centres.

People centricity is at the heart of what we do and we pride ourselves on making our people a priority, whether that be a patient or an employee. We aim to build culture of 'care' that is patient focused, and performance driven. Our people promise is "do your life's best work, by always growing, having a profound human impact and making great things happen together." If you'd like to truly make a difference, join us at GenesisCare!

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GenesisCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.