Job Description: - The company requires all employees to have a consistently positive, cooperative, self-motivated, courteous, and professional attitude to be an essential function of every position.
- While different positions have different primary areas of responsibility, everyone needs to work as a team, and we expect all employees to roll up their sleeves and pitch in as necessary to get the job done.
- Employees must be able to relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions:
(a) can get along with co-workers or peers without exhibiting behavioral extremes, (b) perform work activities requiring negotiating, instructing, supervising, persuading, or speaking with others and (c) respond appropriately to constructive feedback from a supervisor.
Position Summary: HOURS: 8 am - 5 pm, Monday through Friday
- The Radiation Therapist is an ARRT Registered Therapist who is responsible for the administration of radiation therapy as prescribed by the Radiation Oncologist.
- The Therapist will have to interact with a variety of people including, but not limited to patients with cancer, physicians, nurses, patient's family, and co-workers.
- Therapists must possess good interpersonal communication skills.
- The disease of cancer may strike any age group necessitating that this position be involved in the care of all age groups from newborns through geriatrics.
Minimum Requirements - High School Diploma or GED
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Registered by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists as a Radiation Therapist
- Must have knowledge of department functions, how and why radiation therapy is used, and be able to explain this to nurses, physicians, Medical Center staff, and the public
- Prior experience in a Radiation Oncology Department is desirable but not required
Nice-To-Haves - Experience in a Radiation Oncology Department is desirable but not required
Candidate Must Have: - Registered by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists as a Radiation Therapist
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS)
- High School Diploma or GED
- Must have knowledge of department functions, how and why radiation therapy is used, and be able to explain this to nurses, physicians, Medical Center staff, and the public
- Continuing education as prescribed by JCAHO, and A.R.R.T