Chief Radiation Therapist

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.The Chief Radiation Therapist is a highly experienced, motivated, energetic, selfless, compassionate lead professional and mentor whose observant consideration to detail ensures the treatment machine is operating smoothly, fully functional, on schedule, and treating according to plan. Their engaged communication and supportive interactions with the staff and patients are critical to sustain the restorative process for the patients and ensure proper departmental involvement.RequiredBehaviors:As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization:Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitalityask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.RequiredQualifications:Registered through the American Registry of Radiologic Technologist (ARRT) as a Certified Radiation TherapistCurrent New Mexico State license in Radiation TherapyFluent in EnglishPreferredQualifications:Minimum five (5) years experience as a Radiation Therapist in a lead roleCurrent CPR certificationDuties and Responsibilities:Treatment:Manage treatment machine schedule to assure it is adequately staffedOperates linear accelerator and or Superficial X-ray machine for the treatment of cancer patientsSets up and positions patients for their daily treatments as outlined in the patient care planSchedules patients for their daily treatmentsPerforms daily machine warm up and QA data checksWill be on call for any after hours (emergency)Maintenance:In the event of a machine failure or change in the accelerator and CT/Sims performance, the Chief Therapist will contact the Physicist and the service engineer to coordinate repairsWill coordinate preventative maintenance inspections (PMI) with the vendor for the Varian accelerator and CT/Sim and inform the physicist and department manager as to when the PMI’s are scheduledWill keep the physicist and the department manager informed as to the working status of the accelerator and the CT/Sim at all timesSimulation:Schedules and maintains therapist staff rotation through CT/SimOperates CT/SimulatorsSets up and positions patients according to physician and or dosimetrist instructionsConstructs special treatment aids and devicesCommunication:Will inform the physicist, physician, and manager of any treatment machine issues and any interruption in patient care due to a machine failureWill facilitate weekly patient chart roundsEffectively communicates with staff and patientsInforms the physician and/or nurse of any changes in the patient’s status during treatmentsExplain to the patient and/or family as to what will occur during the treatment process and answer any questions that may ariseAdministration:Maintain daily documentation in the patient treatment recordMaintain daily QA documentationGenerate after hours call scheduleMonitors and documents clinical training for therapy studentsReview technical charges and work with billing department to edit or make correctionsAssure that all pertinent treatment information (signed consent, pathology, physician intent, physician and physicist signed treatment plan etc.) is in the patient’s record by performing a weekly chart checkWill assume administrative responsibilities such as (supervision of clinical staff, Kronos, signing/approval and ordering of minor supplies) in the absence of the managerEducation:Maintains CEU’s as required by the ARRT and the State of New MexicoAttend patient care, quality assurance and departmental staff meetingsGeneral:Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and StewardshipOther duties as assignedPhysical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:Physical Activities:All Cancer Center jobs may require lifting/pushing/pulling varying weights may exceed two hundred (200) poundsActivities may include intermittent or prolonged: standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing, pushing, pulling, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching with arms and using the hands to handle or feelRepetitive motions may also be required, such as: wrist / hand movements, grasping, and finger dexterity (as in typing, writing, etc.)Work Environment:The job requires exposure to the following conditions: risk of radiation, working near moving or mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shockThe noise level may vary from very quiet to very loudSensory Requirements:Hearing:Must be able to hear, alarms on equipment, fire alarms, overhead announcements.Patients/families verbal discussions.Instructions/feedback from other healthcare providers​​Vision:Must be able to see: focus on close-up and distant objectsDistinguish colorsHave intact peripheral visionDepth perception (judge distance and spatial relationships)