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.

A Radiation Therapist is a highly energetic and compassionate professional who prepares and conducts the treatment procedure on patients. Their engaged communication and supportive interactions with the patient are critical to sustain the restorative process and ensure proper departmental involvement

Required Behaviors

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 Vitality ask 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.

Required Qualifications

• Completion of a formal program in Radiation Therapy
• Registered through the American Registry of Radiologic Technologist (ARRT) as a Certified Radiation Therapist
• Current New Mexico State license in Radiation Therapy
• Fluent in English

Duties and Responsibilities

Treatment

• Has command and operates linear accelerator for the treatment of cancer patients.
• Sets up and positions patients for their daily treatments as outlined in the patient care plan.
• Schedules patients for their daily treatments.
• Calls patients to schedule their simulations or treatments.
• Works closely with the Medical Physicist, Dosimetrist, and Radiation Oncologist.
• Reviews/edits/credits technical charges at the conclusion of workday.
• Performs daily machine warm up and QA data checks.
• Will be on call for any after-hours emergency.

Simulation

• Operates conventional and or CT/Simulators.
• Sets up and positions patients according to physician and or dosimetrist instructions.
• Constructs special treatment aids and devices.

Communication

• Effectively communicates with staff and patients.
• Informs the physician and or nurse of any changes in the patient’s status during treatments.

Explains to patients and/or family as to what will occur during the treatment process and answer any questions that may arise.

Documentation

Maintains daily documentation in patients’ departmental treatment chart.

Education

• Maintains CEU’s as required by the ARRT and the State of New Mexico.
• Attends patient care, quality assurance and departmental staff meetings.
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:
• Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions

Physical Activities:

All Cancer Center jobs may require lifting / pushing / pulling varying weights may exceed two hundred (200) pounds.

Activities 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 feel.

Repetitive 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 shock.

The noise level may vary from very quiet to very loud.

Sensory 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 and focus on close-up and distant objects.
• Distinguish colors.
• Have intact: peripheral vision.
• Depth perception: judge distance and spatial relationships