What are the responsibilities and job description for the Imaging Services Student Tech/Imaging Services Tech Assistant (Casual) for current Radiology Students position at UPMC?
Launch Your Imaging Career While You're Still in School!
UPMC Hamot is looking for motivated radiology students who want to gain real-world experience, build their skills, and earn income while completing their education. Whether you're looking for evening, weekend, or flexible hours that fit around your classes and clinical rotations, this is an opportunity to get hands-on exposure in a fast-paced hospital environment while working alongside experienced imaging professionals.
Student Opportunities:
Imaging Services Student Tech: For students currently in their 2nd year of an accredited Radiology Program.
Imaging Services Tech Assistant: For students currently in their 1st year of an accredited Radiology Program.
Why Join UPMC Hamot?
• Gain valuable hands-on experience in a hospital imaging department
• Work flexible evening and weekend schedules that fit your school commitments
• Build confidence and professional skills before graduation
• Learn from experienced radiologic technologists and healthcare professionals
• Strengthen your resume and prepare for future career opportunities within UPMC
We're Looking For Students Who Are:
• Motivated and eager to learn
• Independent and able to work with minimal supervision
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Professional and dependable
• Passionate about patient care and medical imaging
This is more than a student job. It's an opportunity to start building your future career in medical imaging while gaining practical experience in one of the region's leading healthcare organizations. We invite you to apply today!
Imaging Services Tech Assistant: Provide for the performance of a variety of technical procedures utilizing independent judgment and a basic understanding of technology, anatomy, and physiology. Provide quality patient care in a timely, cost-effective manner to aid in medical diagnosis under the supervision of a registered technologist.
Responsibilities:
- Transports patient to and from unit when required.
- Demonstrate proper placement of IV catheter. Demonstrates knowledge of and appropriately follows guidelines for GFR criteria.
- Assists with invasive procedure tray set-up and couriers specimens to lab as needed.
- Practices established MRI safety and radiation safety protocols.
- Accurately schedules exams into RIS as needed. Reschedules exams as needed and contacts patients for additional scanning.
- Assists technologist with patient care/flow as instructed. Knowledgeable of procedural processes.
- Verifies patient identify by utilizing at least two patient identifiers. Effectively prepares patient for exam providing both pre and post procedure education. Documents proper history into electronic record. Reviews physician orders and contacts office if additional information is required.
Imaging Services Student Tech: May perform imaging procedures at a technical level under the supervision of a registered technologist, incorporating learning and education with the performance of tasks to assist the technologist in their responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
- Depending on modality, may utilize complex imaging equipment for the acquisition, analysis, reconstruction and documentation of image data and completes procedures according to protocol under the supervision of a Radiologist or Technologist.
- May perform daily equipment inspections, warm up procedures and follow Quality Control Program under supervision of a Technologist.
- Assist Radiologist and Technologist setting up contrast; however, will never be responsible for loading or priming the injector.
- Obtain quality images while following radiation safety standards and protocols.
- Assist with positioning and performing exams, but should never hold the detector or patients for Radiation procedures.
- Arrive patients, track exams, scan scripts, and schedule exams in the Radiology Information Systems. .
- Assist Radiologist and Technologist in performing modality specific exams.
- Maintain clinical proficiency for all completed competencies and equipment skills.
Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000