Radiation Therapist - Per Diem

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.

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.