Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
4 days/week, 10 hour shifts
Posted Date
07/10/2024
Salary Range: $66.04 - 87.12 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
17549
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
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With your passion for solving clinical mysteries and our comprehensive imaging capabilities and sophisticated technology, you can experience an exciting and rewarding imaging career at UCLA Health. You’ll be able to elevate your skills, expand your knowledge, and grow your career within an inclusive, supportive, and empowering workplace. Come see for yourself!
In this role, you will work under the general supervisor of the Chief Radiation Therapy Technologist and your functions will include:
- Applying ionizing radiation according to MD's prescription
- Patient scheduling and appointments
- Performing dose calculations and basic nursing duties
- Treatment data entry
- Working with physicians, physicists and dosimetrists to perform simulations and treatment planning CT's
Salary: $66.04 - $87.12 hourly
Job Qualifications
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Required:
- ARRT License
- CRT License
- 5 or more years radiation therapy experience
- BLS/CPR from American Heart Association or American Red Cross
- Skill in working with different types of treatment machines such as MR Scanner, CT Scanner, HDR units and Linear Accelerators and ability to recognize when hazardous conditions may exist
- Truebeam, Tomotherapy, Novalis, CT and MR guided RT experience
- Ability to lift cerrobend blocks weighing up to 35 pounds.
- Working knowledge of University procedures regarding isolation of immuno-suppressed patients.
- Knowledge of the principles and applications of thermo-luminescent dosimeters.
- Skill in prioritizing assignments to complete work in a timely manner when there are changes in workload, machine breakdowns, heavy patient volume and emergency cases.
- Skill in inspecting treatment machines to assure they conform to present standards.
- Skill in working with different types of treatment machines such as MR Scanner, CT Scanner, HDR units and Linear Accelerators and ability to recognize when hazardous conditions may exist.
Preferred:
- Aria and Epic experience