Radiation Therapist - Registered

About Steward Health Care
Nearly a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.
As the country’s largest physician-led, tax paying, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.
Steward is among the nation’s largest and most successful accountable care organizations (ACO), with more than 5,500 providers and 43,000 health care professionals who care for 12.3 million patients a year through a closely integrated network of hospitals, multispecialty medical groups, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities and behavioral health centers.
Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates 39 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah.
For more information, visit www.steward.org.

At Steward Health Care System, we are committed to improving the health of our communities by delivering exceptional, personalized behavioral health care with dignity, compassion and respect. Our continued focus on the patient experience informs our caregivers in how to provide care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient and family preferences, needs and values.

We dedicate ourselves in the communities we serve to delivering affordable health care to all and being responsible partners. No matter what your role, as a member of the Steward family, you are a specialist in the making every patient and family feel right at home, every co-worker a key to our success, and every referring practice, a team of prized colleagues.

In support of this, we commit ourselves to the following values:

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Excellence

Stewardship

If you are seeking a fast-paced, challenging position in an organization committed to achieving and maintaining a standard of excellence in all we do, our organization may be a good fit for you.

Per Diem Position Hours As Needed

Schedule Varies

Responsibilities:

Accurately delivers a prescribed course of radiation treatment on all available machines. Verify patient identification, daily prescription, treatment area, parameters, and beam modifiers. Confirm any change in treatment (MU, field size, beam modifiers) before treatment is delivered.

Charts daily dose correctly and legibly. Identifies treatment days missed, additional procedures, and any changes to treatment. Obtains field photos, completes field set up details, and field information on treatment record.

Explains simulation and treatment procedure to patient, means of communication, procedure to follow if emergency should arise, treatment schedule including physician to be seen day. Participate in patient education reinforcing Physicians' orders regarding reactions to treatments and care.

Obtains weekly portals for physician review. Repeats any films with changes the next treatment day.

Observes radiation safety for patients and personnel. Notifies Physician, Physicist and Chief Therapist of any discrepency in dose, plan set up, or machine failures. Is aware of critical organ dose in treatment field and questions appropriately.

Performs daily warm up and safety checks on all machines before first patient treatment. Reports any discrepancies to Physicist and Chief Therapist.

Schedules appropriate simulation for reduced fields allowing sufficient time to plan next course.

Participates in the education of Radiation Therapy students. Provides a role model consistently demonstrating professional solid work ethic, communication skills, and respect for all members of the department to assure a solid team effort.

Maintains accurate and complete daily billing sheets and navigator data. Maintain schedule of patients both on and off treatment (i.e.: break).

Maintains current state licensure and national registration maintaining continuing education requirements.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of certified radiation therapist program; state licensure and ARRT registration or New Grads that are Board eligible.

• Proficient operating IMPAC including treatment, billing, and scheduling; proficient operating treatment equipment including simulator.

• Able to accurately deliver treatment and simulation including all paperwork.

• Able to identify critical organs and dose tolerance in treatment field.

• Proficient treating emergency cases including dose calculation when necessary. Able to compare and verify calculation, isodose plan, treatment parameters to treatment prescription.

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Steward Health Care is proud to be a minority, physician owned organization. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are at the foundation of the care we provide, the community services we support and all our employment practices. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.