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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| radiation-therapist | Occupational skill for the role 'radiation therapist' (also: radiotherapy technologist, therapeutic radiography practitioner, therapeutic radiographer, technologist in radiotherapy, RTT, practitioner of therapeutic radiography). Use when the user asks for typical radiation therapist work such as: Participate in quality improvement activities including discussions of areas where risk of error is high.; Participate in continuing education activities to maintain and develop expertise.; Establish or enforce standards for protection of patients or personnel. |
Radiation Therapist
Radiation therapists are responsible for the accurate delivery of radiotherapy to cancer patients and, as part of the multidisciplinary team, for elements of treatment preparation and patient care. This encompasses the safe and accurate delivery of the radiation dose prescribed and the clinical care and support of the patient throughout the treatment preparation, treatment delivery and immediate post treatment phases.
Core workflow
- Participate in quality improvement activities including discussions of areas where risk of error is high.
- Participate in continuing education activities to maintain and develop expertise.
- Establish or enforce standards for protection of patients or personnel.
- Review or transmit images and information using picture archiving or communications systems.
- Recognize or treat complications during and after procedures, including blood pressure problems, pain, oversedation, or bleeding.
- Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
- Obtain patients' histories from electronic records, patient interviews, dictated reports, or by communicating with referring clinicians.
- Confer with medical professionals regarding image-based diagnoses.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
- See references/ai-skills.md — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
Key competences (essential)
- adhere to organisational code of ethics
- adhere to the ALARA principle
- administer radiation treatment
- advocate for healthcare users' needs
- apply radiation protection procedures
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct cancer screening tests
- conduct radiotherapy computer planning
- conduct video telemetry
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- delineate organs at risk
- determine medical images' diagnostic suitability
Hot technologies
- eClinicalWorks EHR software
- Epic Systems
- MEDITECH software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
Hot technologies
Top tools from 63 gated job ads (see references/market.md, as of 2026-07-19):
- linear accelerators — 10 %
- ARIA — 8 %
- EPIC — 6 %
- Linear Accelerator — 6 %
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e139b0a3-3bc5-4c33-bfbf-51ac20ac12fa), ONET 30.3 (29-1224.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*