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Job Summary:

Supervise and provide daily support to Imaging Operations.Daily activities include working with Leads to provide adequate Staffing to Imaging clinics. .

Minimum Requirements

Required

Two years of college education or equivalent and three years as an Imaging Technologist with one-year supervisory experience.

Certification and licensure are required by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) for specialties such as CT, MRI, and, Radiography, or the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography, or the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board.

Licensed by Texas Medical Board as a Medical Radiologic Technologist (Radiography and CT).

Basic Life Support (BLS) by the American Heart Association for Healthcare or the American Red Cross.

Preferred

Bachelor's degree in related field. Enterprise software applications for radiology information systems (RIS) and picture archiving communication (PACS) experience.

Job Duties

Directly supervises employees and daily operations in Imaging Services modalities. Works with Team Leads in providing adequate staffing by demonstrating flexibility and willingness to utilize all resources available to provide core staff to ensure patient continuity of care and imaging services. Assists technologists in performing diagnostic exams when required by workload staffing levels and productivity metrics. Collaborates with scheduling and physicians for add-on/conflicting procedures concerning patient flow and resource availability. Able to utilize patient service recovery techniques to provide optimal outcomes.

Responsible for new employee and student orientation. Utilizes opportunities to teach, role model, and mentor staff toward continual growth and professional development, including opportunities for staff to participate in department/hospital activities, committees, in-services, special projects, and continuing education. Develops annual competencies to assist with new imaging technologies and continually raise the front-line staff's education and skill level. Actively participates in hiring, promotion, course correction, and input/assistance with annual performance reviews and new employee orientation feedback. Responsible for positive continual employee engagement scores.

Provides timely and confidential counseling with staff as appropriate and documents events with leadership.

Maintains and reviews daily payroll for corrections, accuracy, and overtime trends. Monitors supply for inventory control and expired products. Ensures staff are competent in entering event reports and is a resource when inputting or investigating facts.

Notifies leadership immediately regarding high-risk situations. 

Quality Control, assists Biomed, physicists, radiation safety, vendors, staff, and leadership with recording, analyzing, and reviewing equipment reports to facilitate repairs/maintenance, compliance, and other institutional requirements. Must be able to lift 40-50 lbs.

Responds to inquiries/calls/emails promptly and professionally. Utilizes the organizational culture behaviors to include PACT and AIDET. Actively participates in codes and rapid responses. Communicates shift handoff regarding workflow issues with equipment or pending exams with oncoming staff. Functions in the department as a part of an interdisciplinary team and collaborates in the care and service delivery process of patient care through effective communication with other service lines. Prioritizes exams with scheduling exams to ensure smooth workflow, minimize wait times and address stat requests.

Adheres to hospital policies, procedures, competencies, regulatory compliance, infection control, hospital education, new yearly metrics/department goals, patient satisfaction, and fiscally responsible concerning equipment, supplies scheduling, overtime, etc. Maintains patient confidentiality (HIPAA) and ensures that all processes and procedures are maintained to secure and protect all workstations in all work areas.

**Other Duties: Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

1.Work requires ability to supervise employees and daily operations in Imaging Services modalities.

2.Work requires ability to assist biomed, physicists, radiation safety, vendors, staff, and leadership with recording, analyzing, and reviewing equipment reports to facilitate repairs/maintenance, compliance, and other institution requirements.

3.Work requires ability to respond to and interact with all stakeholders with the PACT standards.

4.Work requires ability to devise creative alternatives and suggestions to workflow constraints.

5.Work requires ability to develop annual competencies to assist with new imaging technologies and to continually raise the education level of the front-line staff. 

6.Work requires ability to build high functioning teams that work in tandem within interdepartmental modalities.

Working Conditions

Work is performed primarily in a hospital or hospital clinic environment.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.