$25,000 Sign-on Bonus, Relocation Assistance & Housing Allowance Available!!!  

The work location for this position is in Lewiston, Idaho

Full-Time: 80-hrs per pay period

Hours:  8 a.m. ? 5 p.m. 

Benefits May Include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401k w/ employer match
• Short & Long-term disabilities
• Life & AD&D insurances
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance
• and more?

The Radiation Therapy Program Includes:

• State of the art equipment with a new Elekta Versa with VMAT commissioned in 2023
• New wide boar GE CT onsite
• New PET CT located at the hospital
• Radiation Oncologist with 30 years of experience
• Work with experienced therapists with a combined total of over 55 years of experience
• Onsite dosimetrist and physicist to provide support
• Welcoming staff eager to create a positive work environment and support a new therapist

The Radiation Therapist is an ARRT Registered Therapist who is responsible for the administration of radiation therapy as prescribed by the Radiation Oncologist.  The Therapist will have to interact with a variety of people including, but not limited to patients with cancer, physicians, nurses, patient's family, and co-workers.  Therapist must possess good interpersonal communication skills.

Primary Duties

• Help ease patient's fear and apprehension about radiation therapy.
• Set up patients properly for accurate delivery of radiation treatment.  Explain to patient what to expect during treatment and what the patient can do to make sure treatment is carried out accurately.
• Responsible for daily warm-up of treatment machine.  This includes entering information in the warm-up logbook.  Any variations from parameters set by physicist should be reported to the Senior Therapist.
• Responsible to check simulator for proper operation.  Any problem that would interfere with proper operation should be reported to the Chief Radiation Therapist.  All checks done should be properly entered on the simulator warm-up log.
• Properly position patient for simulation of treatment area using immobilization devices as necessary to ensure proper position of patient.  Explain to the patient what to expect during simulation and how the patient can help to make the process go smoothly and correctly.

Scion Health considers a consistently positive, cooperative, self-motivated, courteous, and professional attitude to be an essential function of every position.  While different positions have different primary areas of responsibility, everyone needs to work as a team, and we expect all employees to roll up their sleeves and pitch in as necessary to get the job done.

Employees must be able to relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions: (a) can get along with co-workers or peers without exhibiting behavioral extremes, (b) perform work activities requiring negotiating, instructing, supervising, persuading, or speaking with others; and (c) respond appropriately to constructive feedback from a supervisor.

While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances (e.g., emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

• High School Diploma or GED
• Registered by American Registry of Radiologic Technologists as a Radiation Therapist
• Experience in a Radiation Oncology Department is desirable

• BLS on first day or to be assigned by the Learning Center

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