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At Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH), we realize that in order to provide our surrounding communities with excellent care, we must begin by providing our employees with that same care and appreciation. We offer rich opportunities to develop and grow professionally, an environment of excellence in patient care, and the awareness that everything we accomplish is a direct outgrowth of the superb efforts and dedication of our employees.

As a non-profit system of almost 4000 employees, we have won national acclaim for our cancer, cardiac, stroke, bariatric, breast imaging, and rehabilitation services.

Position Summary

• Responsible for ensuring proper policies, procedures and day to day MRI safety is maintained and enforced.

$32.19/hr minimum - $48.28/hr maximum (range increases based on education, experience and certifications)

Job Roles

Safety

• Manage processes effectively in regard to employee/patient

Record Keeping

• Maintain all required records, reports, statistics, logs, files and other documents as required.

Process Improvement

• Promote a culture of process improvement by participating in unit/department based programs that supports the systems process improvement goals.
• Participate on system-wide or hospital-based teams as needed.

Role Specific Responsibilities

• Ensures that proper policies and procedures of the MRMD are implemented and enforced on an ongoing basis.
• Development, documentation, and execution of safe working procedures for the MR environment.
• Ensures that adequate written safety procedures, emergency procedures, and operating instructions are issued.
• Ensures the implementation and monitoring of appropriate measures for minimizing risks to staff and patients.
• Manages hazards posed by the MR equipment and monitoring the measures taken to protect against such hazards.
• Ensures that medical, technical, nursing, emergency and all other relevant staff groups who may be exposed to the MR environment are educated appropriately and updated as necessary as to MR safety requirements.
• Provides and/or ensures the provision of MR safety education and training and maintains records of personnel education.
• Reports all MR safety-related issues.
• Ensures that there is a clear policy for purchasing, testing and clearly marking of all equipment that will be taken into Zones III and IV.
• Maintains regular contact with other relevant groups or committees responsible for the safety and welfare of personnel on site.
• Provides expertise on root cause analyses, solutions meetings, related to MRI adverse events.

Education

• Bachelors Degree in Healthcare Related Field

Licenses and Certification

• AART Certification
• MR Certification
• MRSO Certification within 1 year of acceptance of position
• BLS Certification
• IEMA Licensure

Experience and Skills

• 5 years technical experience in MRI required
• MRI Safety experience required