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Petoskey, Michigan

Hiring Travel Radiation Therapist in Petoskey, MI with $2880 Weekly Gross

Radiation Therapist Top 25% in Radiation TherapyContract

Listed compensation

$2520 weekly

The week · per this posting

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Posted 2mo ago

Job Description

Sage Group HealthCare Staffing is a Radiation Therapist for a travel/contract position in Petoskey, MI. Accepting both local and traveler candidates.

Position Details

  • Position Name: Travel Radiation Therapist - Oncology
  • Location: Petoskey, Michigan
  • Specialty: Radiation Therapy
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Employment Type: Full-time, Travel, Contract, Temporary
  • Contract Length: 13 weeks
  • Local Pay Rate(Locals with 35 miles: $2520 weekly Gross pay based on a 40-hour work week
  • Local Pay Rate (Locals b/n 35 - 50 miles): $2800 weekly Gross pay based on a 40-hour work week

Travel Pay Rate: $2880 weekly Gross pay based on a 40-hour work week (Includes Non-taxable travel/housing and M&I stipend available for qualified/eligible travelers)

  • Unit: Oncology
  • Shifts available: Days
  • Shift timings: 8 Hours; Days, 8.00 am to 4.30 pm

Schedule: 40 hours/week guaranteed, 5 X 8-hr shifts per week, M-F

Position Requirements

  • Radiation Therapist experience, 2 years - Required
  • 1 year travel experience or 1 year work experience with Varian and ARIA – Required
  • Varian TruBeam, ARIA, Trilogy experience - Preferred

Education, License and Certification Requirements

  • ARRT (T) Certification - Required
  • BLS Certification from AHA - Required

Job Description

  • Responsible for the delivery of quality patient care through radiation therapy treatments.
  • Perform treatment simulations, fabricates all necessary shielding blocks, and maintain accurate EMR.

Prepares equipment for patient treatments performing quality control and assurance tests, ensuring proper infection control techniques, and adheres to optimal radiation safety and protection practices.

All activities reflect the philosophy, goals, objectives and standards of hospital and nationally accepted standards of practice, provisions of quality patient care, environmental safety and inter-disciplinary cooperation.

  • Maintains professional working relationships with medical staff.
  • Accurately documents patient care and treatments provided

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for delivering quality patient care through radiation therapy treatments and performing treatment simulations. Duties include fabricating shielding blocks, maintaining EMRs, and ensuring strict adherence to radiation safety and infection control protocols.

Requirements

Requires at least 2 years of Radiation Therapist experience and ARRT (T) and BLS certifications. Candidates must have 1 year of travel experience or 1 year of experience with Varian and ARIA.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Treatment SimulationEMR Documentation

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Hiring Travel Radiation Therapist in Petoskey, MI with $2880 Weekly Gross at SAGE GROUP a 6.5 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Radiation Therapy — ranked against 540 active Radiation Therapy listings on WeekdayDoc.

Radiation Therapy Career Context

Of the 40 active Radiation Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% have no call, 65% require no weekends.

Radiation Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 8.9% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Michigan is 96.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.8% of Michigan clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Work-life snapshot

median 5.1this job 6.5
Better work-life than 80% of Radiation Therapy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 540 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • On-site
  • Includes weekends

Living in Petoskey

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$462k
Median resident rent
$1,006/mo
Residents’ average commute
15 min
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.