Radiation Therapist - New Grads Welcome!

Radiation Therapist – Radiation Oncology (Duarte) - New Grads Welcome!

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.  

Eligible for Sign On Bonus: $10,000

The Department of Radiation Oncology in Duarte at City of Hope brings an array of innovative technologies, protocols, and research procedures. Our Radiation Therapists are exposed to challenging, interesting, and exciting new treatment technologies. Our skilled therapists work on state-of-the-art machines and procedures that save lives: Tomotherapy, RefleXion, Truebeam, Identity, and Vision RT surface guidance technology as well as HDR, brachytherapy, clinical trial patients, disease-focused specialty practice, to name a few. The RefleXion unit uses advanced technology with a radiopharmaceutical agent that cancer cells absorb creating a biological beacon for targeted radiation treatments. Construction has begun to install a Varian Ethos unit; Ethos is a new revolutionary therapy machine that uses adaptive Radiation Therapy that combines artificial intelligence with adaptive therapy allowing physicians to make daily adjustments in a patient’s treatment in real-time based on the cancer’s response. These innovations in technology help cultivate a higher level skill set, being unique to only Radiation Therapists at COH Duarte!

As a successful candidate, you will: 

• Deliver a prescribed and planned course of radiation therapy to patients of all ages.

• Reinforce recommendations given to patient by healthcare professional concerning reaction to treatment and care of radiated area, prevention, or treatment of generalized and local side effects

• Perform simulation procedures as prescribed by physician and assist in dosimetry procedures

• Perform daily quality assurance checks on linear accelerators, reporting any variation in morning warm-up. Reports improper equipment operation to appropriate personnel

Your qualifications should include:

• High School or equivalent; Post High School Vocational/Specialized Training in an accredited Radiation Therapy Education Program

• 0-3 of related experience, depending on training

• Graduate of an accredited radiologic technology course plus radiation therapy course OR Graduate of an accredited Bachelor of Science in Radiation Therapy Program

• Licensed by the California State Department of Health (Certified in Radiation Therapy)

• Certification by the ARRT – in Radiation Therapy CRT

• BLS or CPR

• Note: For candidates with more than 3 years of RT experiences, will qualify for RT II; this pay range is: $58.61/hr - $76.20/hr - $93.78/hr

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location. City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.

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