Radiation Therapist - BAMC

Description

Radiation Therapy Technologist

 Brooke Army Medical Center, JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Maxmed Healthcare is seeking a Radiation Therapy Technologist to provide full-time services at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.  Our Radiation Therapy Technologist will:

• Shall assure accurate and consistent patient alignment and support/immobilization, employing laser alignment system, optical range finder, and treatment couch adjustment. Duplicate patient position established at time of simulation.
• Shall configure radiation head with proper field size, gantry and collimator rotation, beam modification devices to include: wedge filters, custom-mount or template-positioned cerrobend blocks, tissue compensators, bolus material.
• Shall program control console and verify treatment time, monitor units, and backup timer settings.
• Shall monitor patient during treatment. Interrupt treatment if necessary to render assistance, first aid, or administer CPR. Respond to radiological emergency in accordance to protocol for runaway machine or exposed radioactive source.
• Shall maintain permanent treatment record, making daily notation of machine settings and daily/cumulative radiation dose for each patient. Obtain digital images of treated fields using portal imaging system.
• Shall execute treatment-planning procedures in conformity with physician specifications. Execute high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatments.
• Shall perform hospital chart and patient screening examinations. Alert physicians to indications of radiation toxicity or progressive cancer. Assist physician in clinic procedures as necessary.
• Shall observe clinical condition of patients undergoing radiation therapy to detect: skin erythema or desquamation, weight loss, separation changes, ataxia, orthostatic symptoms, or mental status changes. Report observations to physician as warranted.

Qualifications

Degree/Education: Shall be registered by the American Registry Radiologic Technologist (ARRT) as a Radiotherapy Therapy Technologist (RTT).

Licensure/Registration: Must maintain a current, active, valid and unrestricted license from the Texas Medical Board.

Experience:

• Have at least two years of experience in clinical radiotherapy under the supervision of either a board-certified RO or MP.
• Shall have experience – to include performing both IGRT and IMRT based patient treatments and daily quality assurance testing – using Varian Radiotherapy linear accelerators equipped with Multi-Leaf Collimator (MLC) and Electronic Portal Imaging Devices (EPID) systems.
• Shall have experience setting up exposure factors when utilizing kV imaging, OBI and OSMS during the localization of treatment area.
• Shall have experience with SRS, SBRT, and HDR brachytherapy treatments.
• Shall have experience fabricating custom treatment aids, such as custom blocks, shields, compensators, molds, casts, and other immobilization devices.
• Shall have experience using Varian Aria electronic record and verify systems and Varian Radiotherapy Linear Accelerators.
• Shall possess teaching experience in clinical radiotherapy.
• Shall have experience in Computed Tomography-based radiotherapy simulation techniques.
• Shall have experience using a Huestis Compu-Cutter block cutting system. Shall have experience in documenting, ordering and charging in AHLTA on a daily basis.