Position Highlights:

• Work/life: You will find support to help you manage your personal life while building a career.
• Employee-centric: Tuition reimbursement, loan forgiveness, comprehensive major medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off, 401(k), health and wellness offerings, monthly employee events, and more.
• Lifestyle: Sandusky was voted “Best Coastal Small Town in America”. You will have the opportunity to enjoy living and working in this growing area along the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.

About Firelands Health:

Our goal at Firelands Health is to be the best & preferred independent healthcare employer for the Sandusky Bay region.

Firelands Health is the area’s largest and most comprehensive resource for quality medical care. We are “big enough to care for you, and small enough to care about you”. We are locally managed and governed as a not-for-profit healthcare facility, serving the counties of Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Huron, covering a regional service area with over 300,000 residents. Our mission is to provide excellent healthcare, promote community wellness, and improve the lives we serve.

Our Core ACE Values: Attitude: We choose to be positive and inclusive every day. Commitment: We are committed to exceed the expectations of those we serve. Enthusiasm: We will work passionately to make a difference.

What You Will Do:

• Serves as a leader and mentor for all radiation therapists and other therapy team members. Also provides and coordinates radiation therapy and related procedures for patients in the Cancer Center as prescribed by the radiation oncologist and according to established standards and practices. Serves as a leader with all members of the Cancer Center Team to insure professional customer service standards. Participates in Quality Assurance and quality control procedures focused on improving the process of care delivery.
• Serves as technical resource for immediate technical questions or problems from co-workers or physicians in conjunction with the director.
• Coordinates scheduling and coverage of technical staff, with the director to ensure appropriate staffing.
• Reviews charges for accuracy.
• Takes the lead in quality assurance and accreditation maintenance Reports metrics to UH as requested.
• Performs the competency evaluation and performance review of staff therapists.
• Assists the Director with the preparation of the yearly budget for staffing, operating, and capital expenditures within the radiation oncology department.
• Assists in reviewing, revising, and/or developing policies and procedures.
• Initiates and maintains positive relationships with patients. Exhibits an increased ability to care for patients with complex physical, emotional and social needs, while communicating at the patient level of education, experience and with age appropriate awareness. Acts as an advocate for the patient in a professional manner with empathy and respect with focus always being on the patient and their needs.
• Instruct patients on daily procedure, maintenance of marks, and education in regards to radiation treatments and document as such. Will answer the patient questions and when appropriate refer the patient to the nurse or doctor for follow up. Will document such discussion.
• Initiates and maintains positive relationships with co-workers. Takes ownership of tasks/ assignments with follow through. Assists fellow coworkers without prompting, to promote a positive service excellence environment.
• Responsible for self-development by regularly attending staff meetings, participates in radiation therapy quality meetings and is receptive to new ideas and improvement efforts.
• Responsible for daily monitoring for accurate delivery of therapeutic radiation as prescribed by a radiation oncologist. Constructs and/or applies treatment devices as prescribed. Reads and follows set up instruction for each patient. Follows prescription to deliver treatment, anticipates changes or cone downs and schedules proper procedure. Offers assistance to other therapist and holds self and peers accountable for following established policies/standards of care.
• Assists physician in localizing tumor with or without contrast using radiographic techniques and determines optimum fields to cover volume of interest including treatment devices. Marks treatment field on patient’s skin or immobilization device and documents all pertinent information leading to a reproducible treatment set-up and parameters for calculation of dose to be delivered. Assists with C/T treatment planning as needed.
• Demonstrates competency of the linear accelerators and simulator. Operates equipment in a responsible manner to apply with safety standards. Performs warm-up and safety checks on treatment machines, simulator, flat panel, and lasers daily with all departmental documentation recorded. Performs gain calibration on the linear accelerators when indicated.
• Notifies appropriate personnel of equipment malfunctions. Radiation safety requirements and policies for patients and personnel are followed. Monitors patient both visually and by intercom to ensure safety and accuracy of treatment.
• Reviews the chart prior to the first treatment according to departmental policy, making sure the chart includes, but is not limited to, consent, pathology report, ID photo, field photos, signed and dated approved treatment plan and Rad calculations (as applicable). Ensures that physicist and radiation oncologist have signed all appropriate forms and documents according to departmental policy.
• Maintains an efficient schedule, keeps accurate records, documents properly and bills accurately recording all billable services. Schedules patients at a mutually convenient time.
• Follows department policy and documents table parameters, time out, patient shifts, SSD verification and documentation, and post treatment dose verification, etc.
• Performs diodes, when ordered, according to departmental policy. Performs port film and IGRT according to policy.

What You Will Need:

• High School diploma, or equivalent. Completion of an accredited course in radiation therapy technology. Certified by the American Registry of Radiologic Technology (ARRT), RT (T).
• Ability to lift 30 pounds overhead and away from body. Ability to lift and move immobile patients.
• Ability to maintain neat and orderly records, reports and logs.
• Ability to perform complex arithmetic calculations. Ability to read and write small letters and numbers.
• Ability to understand instructions and communicate effectively in both written and oral form.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)