Radiation Therapist II

Job overview

Radiation Therapist II, Palo Alto, is an onsite position with Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, CA. The pay range is $70.52 - $93.43 per hour. This role is part of a legacy of hope and innovation at Stanford Health Care. The purpose of this role is to administer radiation therapy with precision and accuracy under the direction of the radiation oncologist, providing excellent customer service and care to patients. The Radiation Therapist II performs duties with increased responsibility and independence.

What you'll do

• Demonstrates proficiency and competence in delivering advanced radiation therapy treatments to patients according to written prescriptions, treatment plans, and orders provided by the Radiation Oncologist.
• Provides safe, accurate patient care by consistently following department protocols, policies, and procedures that have been established.
• Recognizes deviations from prescribed treatment delivery and reports all deviations immediately to the Manager in addition to filing incident reports, if applicable.
• Performs simple dosimetry calculations for urgent or emergent patient care, as needed.
• Performs patient simulations, including fabrication of immobilization, as required
• Participates in brachytherapy procedures, as required
• Fabricates beam shielding devices, as required
• Uses C-I-CARE principles and techniques to provide thorough explanations to patients and their families of procedures prior to performing them. Responds effectively to patient concerns and refers medical questions to appropriate personnel.
• Uses C-I-CARE principles and practice when interacting with colleagues. Maintains an atmosphere of caring, concern and support for patients and their families, visitors, medical staff and co-workers on a consistent basis.
• Demonstrates an attitude of positive contribution and teamwork to the department.
• Observes patients for expected and unexpected reactions to treatments and communicates this to appropriate staff members. Reinforces patient education/side-effect management information and indicates non-compliance to medical/nursing staff.
• Ensures the quality of patient care through complete and accurate documentation in the electronic health record.
• Displays a thorough understanding of treatment and simulation related billing procedures. Reviews treatment/ simulation documentation and billing daily for accuracy and completeness and works closely with radiation oncology coders.
• Anticipates and facilitates patient flow by scheduling patients on the treatment and simulation units to optimize patient satisfaction and department efficiency and ensures physician and resource availability. Alerts the manager when patient volumes and scheduling exceed staffing levels and business hours.
• Troubleshoots and problem solves effectively and efficiently using lean methodologies. Communicates appropriate issues to the Radiation Therapist- Lead or Manager for proper handling and potential escalation
• Maintains a safe and orderly patient treatment room. Checks safety controls and devices in the treatment room daily and reports problems to the Manager.
• Performs warm up and quality assurance checks of equipment, as necessary.
• Actively participates in problem solving and process improvement initiatives.
• Performs other related and incidental duties as needed or assigned.

What we're looking for

Education

Requirement met by License/Certification requirement

Experience

2 years as an ARRT registered Radiation Therapist

Skills & competencies

radiation therapist

therapist

palo alto ca

stanford health care

full-time

day shift

8 hour shifts

no weekends

on-call

healthcare

medical

therapy

patient care

onsite

About the employer

Stanford Health Care is hiring for this role. Industry: General Medical and Surgical Hospitals. Sector: 62.