Senior Radiation Therapist

Radiation Oncology

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The Senior Radiation Therapist performs specialized radiation treatment-planning, brachytherapy coordination, and advanced clinical support activities in collaboration with radiation oncologists, medical dosimetrists, medical physicists, and radiation therapists. Working under minimal supervision, this role assumes primary responsibility for coordinating and managing designated brachytherapy workflows while independently performing defined treatment-planning activities and supporting complex imaging, dose accumulation, and automated treatment-planning processes. The Senior Radiation Therapist also supports specialized radiation therapy procedures, including patient simulation, treatment delivery, clinical coordination, staff training, and continuity of patient care. This role applies advanced clinical and technical expertise to manage specialized workflows, optimize treatment-planning tools, and improve the efficiency, consistency, quality, and safety of radiation oncology services. Medical dosimetrists retain responsibility for managing the comprehensive treatment-planning process, while the Senior Radiation Therapist performs designated activities in accordance with established departmental protocols, clinical oversight, and quality assurance requirements.

Essential Job Function:

• Coordinates and manages designated brachytherapy workflows, including radioactive source ordering and management, procedure preparation and support, scheduling coordination, and post-procedure treatment-planning activities, in collaboration with radiation oncologists, medical physicists, medical dosimetrists, and other clinical team members.
• Performs specialized treatment-planning activities within defined departmental protocols, supporting the comprehensive treatment-planning process managed by medical dosimetrists.
• Performs advanced treatment-planning preparation, including contouring of designated anatomical structures, image registration, treatment-planning data preparation, and execution of standardized automated planning workflows.
• Performs and coordinates complex rigid and deformable image registration and multisystem dose accumulation workflows to support target delineation, treatment evaluation, and clinical decision-making.
• Supports pre-simulation planning activities, including review of clinical information, preparation of patient-specific planning data, and coordination of planning requirements prior to simulation.
• Develops, tests, optimizes, and maintains automated treatment-planning tools and standardized clinical workflows to improve planning efficiency, consistency, and quality.
• Performs and supports specialized radiation therapy procedures, including patient simulation, positioning, immobilization, and treatment delivery, in accordance with prescribed treatment parameters, established clinical protocols, and radiation safety requirements.
• Coordinates and supports special procedure workflows, including scheduling with patients, providers, and clinical team members, preparation of required clinical resources, and coordination of procedural activities to promote safe and timely patient care.
• Supports patient care throughout specialized procedures by providing patient education, addressing questions and concerns, monitoring for adverse reactions, and communicating relevant findings to the clinical team.
• Assists with coordination of patient follow-up, ongoing clinical surveillance, diagnostic procedures, specialty clinics, and multidisciplinary patient conferences as needed, in collaboration with the responsible providers and clinical team.
• Serves as an advanced clinical and technical resource to radiation therapists and imaging specialists, providing training, guidance, and support for specialized simulation and treatment procedures, brachytherapy, treatment planning, imaging, and automation workflows.
• Collaborates with radiation oncologists, medical physicists, medical dosimetrists, and other clinical team members to ensure specialized planning and procedural activities are integrated into the overall patient care process and completed according to established clinical requirements, including appropriate review, quality assurance, and approval.
• Ensures accurate documentation and compliance with departmental procedures, radiation safety requirements, quality assurance standards, and applicable regulatory guidelines.

Education:

• Required: Graduate of a Radiation Therapy Technology Program with 3 years' experience (will accept Graduate of a Certified Medical Dosimetrist Program with no experience).

Experience:

• Required: 5 years with Graduate of a Radiation Therapy Technology Program or no experience required with Graduate of a Certified Medical Dosimetrist Program.

Licensure/Certification/Listing:

• Required: Certification by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists in Radiation Therapy or Certified Medical Dosimetrist.

Work Shift :

Days/No Weekends (United States of America)

On Call Required

No

FTE:

1

Job Type:

Full Time (40 Hours/Week)