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Posted: 03-Mar-24
Location: Los Angeles, California
Salary: Open
Categories:
Academic/Faculty
Internal Number: 972
Job Description
Align yourself with an organization that has a reputation for excellence! Cedars Sinai was awarded the National Research Corporation???s Consumer Choice Award 19 years in a row for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles. We also were awarded the Advisory Board Company???s Workplace of the Year. This recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement. Join us! Discover why we have been ranked #1 in California and eight years in a row on the ???Best Hospital??? Honor Roll by U.S. News & World Report, 2023-24.
We are currently offering a $10,000 sign-on bonus to newly hired Therapists!??
What you will be doing in this role:
This position will be primarily based on the Main Campus (8700 Beverly Blvd), but will float to the Tarzana Clinic (18133 Ventura Blvd) as needed.
Under the supervision of the Chief Radiation Therapist and the professional direction of a Radiation Oncologist, the Radiation Therapist job is expected to administer radiation treatments to cancer patients; Verification of treatment plans & Quality Checklist; Documentation of treatment, daily and weekly linear accelerator QA, portal images, and CBCT; Coordinates and schedules patients in Mosaiq system; Notifies appropriate person of EPIC scheduling changes; Follows physicians prescription and carries out all instructions; Verifies mathematical accuracy of treatment prescription; Detects equipment malfunction, troubleshoots and reports problem to appropriate person; Demonstrates appropriate medical knowledge when caring for patients with urgent/emergent patients; Demonstrates effective time management; proactively assists other team members to meet teamwork goals. Your duties will include:
- Accurate Set-up and treatment of patients as prescribed by a Radiation Oncologist
- Utilizing imaging technologies for the purpose of simulation, treatment planning, and treatment delivery as prescribed by a Radiation Oncologist
- Operation of linear accelerator, including proper patient positioning and monitoring of patient during procedure
- Performs some special treatment procedures, such as Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS), Stereotactic Radiation Therapy (SRT), Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT), Brachytherapy.
- Performing weekly portal images, and daily CBCT, KV, VisionRT prior to delivering treatment.
- Accurately completing and charting all simulation and treatment summaries, report and documentations, along with photographs of set up and tattooing of patient as required
- Appropriate and timely documentation of treatments
- Patient management and education
- Documenting daily pain assessment
- Verifying correct side/site; Patient name; DOB prior to treatment
- Proactively assisting other team members to meet teamwork goals
- Assisting with The Joint Commission readiness within the department
- Ensuring medical equipment is maintained and functioning properly, including daily warm-up procedures and quality assurance
- Participates in quality improvement initiatives
Qualifications
Education:
Graduate of an ARRT approved Radiation Therapy Program required
Bachelors Degree in ARRT approved Radiation Therapy Program preferred
Experience:
A minimum of 3 years' technical experience as a Radiation Therapist preferred
License/Certification/Registrations:
California Therapeutic Radiation Technologist Certification required
American Registry of Radiologic Technology Certification required
Basic Life Support Certification required
Why work here?
Beyond outstanding employee benefits including health and dental insurance, vacation, and a 403(b) we take pride in hiring the best, most passionate employees. Our accomplished staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our commitment to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation.??
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Keywords: Radiation Oncology, Radiation Therapy, Radiation Therapist, Cancer, Healthcare, Hospital, Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, California??
About Us
Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
About the Team
Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.
Req ID : 972
Working Title : Radiation Therapist - West LA & Tarzana, CA - 8-Hour Day Shift - $10K Hiring Incentive!
Department : Radiation Therapy
Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category : Imaging
Job Specialty : Nuclear/Invasive
Overtime Status : NONEXEMPT
Primary Shift : Day
Shift Duration : 8 hour
Base Pay : $49.04 - $78.46
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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
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