• Overview* Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is Yolo County’s largest health care provider serving the community since 1905. Woodland Memorial Hospital is a 108-bed acute care facility offering the most comprehensive range of health care services in Yolo County including inpatient and outpatient surgical services family birth center/labor and delivery emergency services home health services palliative care inpatient mental health services sleep disorders center and cancer care services. With strong ties to our community we believe in providing compassionate high-quality health care to you and your family close to home. Woodland Memorial Hospital is part of Dignity Health one of the nation’s largest health care systems with a 22-state network. For more information please visit our website at www.dignityhealth.org/woodland.
• Responsibilities*

The Nuclear Medicine Specialist performs invivo studies and therapeutic and diagnostic imaging procedures according to written or transcribed verbal orders of a physician within the scope of his/her certification according to established standards and practices under the direction of the Imaging Services Supervisor manager and Radiology Medical Director. Demonstrates competency for neonate infant toddler pre-school school age adolescent adult and late adulthood patients. Primary responsibility resides in the daily and comprehensive operations of a single-technologist department. Administrative tasks assigned this position include but are not limited to participation in CQI activities Radiation Safety Committee limited staff evaluation process policy and procedure updates various report development. Other duties assigned/approved by the Imaging Supervisor Manager and Medical Director.

• Manage the service consistent with medical, ethical, and legal requirements within an established budget
• Provide quality patient care
• Perform all imaging and in-vivo procedures
• Order all isotopes
• Prepare and calibrate all isotopes for patient use
• Order and maintain all necessary supplies
• Perform quality control checks on all nuclear medicine equipment
• Formulate new procedures under the direction of the medical director
• Maintains a QA Plan for the service in accordance with Federal, State, and accrediting agencies requirements
• Updates policies and procedures as needed
• Maintains the Radiation Safety Program for the facility as the Radiation Safety Officer
• Qualifications*
• Education and Experience: *
• Knowledge of: anatomy and physiology for medical imaging including cross-sectional relationships; medical terminology as it pertains to Nuclear Medicine; infection control guidelines; principles of operation and care for nuclear medicine equipment; currently accepted diagnostic, therapeutic, and in-vivo nuclear medicine procedures; radiation safety requirements for operator, patients and visitors, and staff; film processing systems; mechanical and electrical safety practices and requirements in the patient care environment; preparation, use, and hazards of diagnostic contrast materials.
• Minimum of four years experience as certified Nuclear Medicine Technologist preferred.
• Licensure:*
• Current California State certification in all categories of Nuclear Medicine technology (board license).
• Current certification in Nuclear Medicine technology in one or more of the following national certification boards:

Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board (NMTCB)
American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)

• Pay Range* $76.35 - $87.78/hour