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Posted: 03-Jan-26
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Internal Number: 150466727
Deliver specialized clinical expertise within an award-winning health organization. Contribute to our world-renowned reputation for exceptional patient care. Expand your career potential in a state-of-the-art setting. You can do all this and more at UCLA Health.
Under the general supervision of the Chief Radiation Therapy Technologist, this role supports the delivery of patient care through a variety of clinical and administrative functions. Key responsibilities include scheduling appointments, performing dose calculations, entering treatment data, and collaborating with physicians, physicists, and dosimetrists during simulations and treatment planning CTs.
The technologist will also administer ionizing radiation in accordance with physician prescriptions and perform basic patient care duties, ensuring safe, accurate, and compassionate treatment for patients undergoing radiation therapy.
This position will be working in Santa Clarita, Santa Monica and Westwood, locations in addition to future sites as assigned.
Salary: $111.26 hourly
*May convert to career*
Required:
- BLS from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross
- ARRT license
- CRT license
- 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.
- Interpersonal skills to interact effectively with patients and their relatives in a high volume, continuous public contact setting.
- 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 communicating various technical aspects of Radiation Therapy at a level understood by patients.
- Ability to speak on a one-to-one basis using appropriate vocabulary and grammar to obtain information, explain treatment procedures, and to clearly convey information to medical staff, patients, and administrators.
- Skill in recognizing and reporting any adverse patient therapy reactions.
- Ability to establish rapport with patients, including those who may be experiencing emotional distress, mental health challenges, or heightened vulnerability
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with physicians and physicists.
- Ability to appropriately interact with and provide special assistance to various age groups of patients, i.e., pediatric and geriatric patients.
