Radiation Therapist

# **About Our Company** We’re a physician-led, patient-centric network committed to simplifying health care and bringing a more connected kind of care. Our primary, multispecialty, and urgent care providers serve millions of patients in traditional practices, patients' homes and virtually through VillageMD and our operating companies [Village Medical](https://www.villagemedical.com/), [Village Medical at Home](https://www.villagemedical.com/village-medical-at-home), [Summit Health](https://www.summithealth.com/), [CityMD](https://www.citymd.com/), and [Starling Physicians](https://www.starlingphysicians.com/). When you join our team, you become part of a compassionate community of people who work hard every day to make health care better for all. We are innovating value-based care and leveraging integrated applications, population insights and staffing expertise to ensure all patients have access to high-quality, connected care services that provide better outcomes at a reduced total cost of care. **Please Note:** We will only contact candidates regarding your applications from one of the following domains: @summithealth.com, @citymd.net, @villagemd.com, @villagemedical.com, @westmedgroup.com, @starlingphysicians.com, or @bmctotalcare.com. # **Job Description** Job Description # Great opportunity to work with state of the art radiation therapy equipment--Radixact Stellar! **ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:** - Maintain and prepare rooms, equipment, and materials for patient care as needed and as required by supervisor. - Assesses treatment rooms to assure all equipment is operational and quality checks have been performed. - Prepares treatment room and equipment for patients according to prescription regarding immobilization devices, field size, treatment distances, shielding devices, gantry and/or collimator angles, etc. - Prepare and position patients for simulation and treatment - Performs quality assurance procedures and reports any deficiencies to supervisor and/or physicist - Performs quality assurance warm-up tests on treatment units and simulators; corrects minor faults and/or initiates corrective action following established protocols. - Achieves precision patient alignment using imaging and external markings - Implement and deliver accurately the prescribed planned course of radiation therapy utilizing megavoltage equipment, adhering to acceptable departmental, institutional, governmental, and professional standards. - Reviews patients’ treatment plans and parameters as part of a “time out” and quality audit prior to the first treatment and daily checks patient ID, prescription, and dose to date prior to delivery of treatment. - Explains procedures to patients and the means of communication during treatment and procedure in case of an emergency. - Positions patients and modifies standard procedure to accommodate patients’ conditions. - Reviews and verifies daily treatment time and/or monitor units and delivers prescribed dose while monitoring machine operation. - Keep accurate records of the treatment of each patient - Collaborates with radiation oncologists, medical physicists and medical dosimetrists to compensate for treatment inaccuracies; and reports deviations from the standard or planned treatment - Maintains visual and/or audio communication with patient during treatment. - Practices radiation protection for the patient, self, and others; applies radiation safety principles. - Observe radiation safety and protection procedures - Apply principles of ALARA to minimize exposure to patient, self and others - Assesses and evaluates patients for unusual reactions and/or medical problems and reports conditions to a radiation oncology MA and/or a radiation oncologist. - Recognizes emergency patient conditions and assists and/or initiates first aid and/or basic life support procedures when appropriate. - Reinforces radiation oncologist’s and MA’s advice to patients regarding skin care, diets, general wel…