Radiologic Tech Lead: FT

Position Highlights:

• Work/life: You will find support to help you manage your personal life while building a career.
• Employee-centric: Tuition reimbursement, loan forgiveness, comprehensive major medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off, 401(k), health and wellness offerings, monthly employee events, and more.
• Lifestyle: Sandusky was voted “Best Coastal Small Town in America”. You will have the opportunity to enjoy living and working in this growing area along the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.

About Firelands Health:

Our goal at Firelands Health is to be the best & preferred independent healthcare employer for the Sandusky Bay region.

Firelands Health is the area’s largest and most comprehensive resource for quality medical care. We are “big enough to care for you, and small enough to care about you”. We are locally managed and governed as a not-for-profit healthcare facility, serving the counties of Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Huron, covering a regional service area with over 300,000 residents. Our mission is to provide excellent healthcare, promote community wellness, and improve the lives we serve.

Our Core ACE Values: Attitude: We choose to be positive and inclusive every day. Commitment: We are committed to exceed the expectations of those we serve. Enthusiasm: We will work passionately to make a difference.

What You Will Do:

• Provides technical expertise and leadership to the Radiology Department. Performs radiographic examinations on patients and coordinates patient flow and the activities of the Radiology Department. Provides technical expertise and guidance to second shift staff. Manages allocated resources to ensure that services are provided in radiology.

• Provides input for and performs employee evaluations. Counsels employees when appropriate to develop and enhance their skills.

• Monitors Imaging Services policy and practices as they relate to the safety of the employee, patient, and family, and compliance with all regulatory agencies.

• Provides for adequate inventory of supplies. Reports any department equipment malfunction to appropriate personnel. Orders supplies, maintaining appropriate supply par level.

• Assures timely performance of imaging procedures.

• Maintains knowledge of current accreditation requirements. Assures that these requirements are met by maintaining appropriate records and development/revision/review of policies and procedures in conjunction with the Director.

• Maintains and verifies accuracy of the Charge Master, in conjunction with the Director.

• Maintains and completes time and attendance records.

• Collects and maintains appropriate data. Prepares reports as needed. Participates on committees and task forces as required.

• Performs quality control measures to assure procedural quality. Conducts Quality Assurance to insure the department meets and improves on the services provided.

• Creates employee schedules to assure proper staffing for every shift. Prepares monthly work schedule. Maintains adequate staffing for performance of procedures. Ensures proper utilization and productivity.

• Interviews, selects, and recommends for hire all staff. Trains and orients all staff, or oversees the training and orientation by a designee.

• Receives consultation request checking for special instructions, consults with Radiologists as needed. Pleasantly greets patients confirming their identification and introduces self.

• Prepares room, equipment and materials as needed for patients. Prepares patient for X-ray; explains procedures, transfers patient to table, positions patient and assists patient at end of procedure. Selects and operates equipment as directed.

• Follows prescribed techniques in administering general and specific x-rays. (Adjusts equipment; determines proper voltage, current, and desired exposure time; arranges immobilization and support devices to obtain position of patient; adjusts lead shield; and selects proper film.) Selects proper technical factors on an individual patient basis.

• Observes patient and machine during procedure and reports unusual occurrences and records patient's condition, if indicated.

• Ensures appropriate processing of studies for interpretation by physicians.

• Takes mobile x-ray unit to patient's room or ER as needed. Works in surgical suite as needed.

• Ensures distribution of workload among all technologists and staff members; adjusts staffing as needed to provide for meal breaks.

• Ensures timely and accurate work distribution to radiologists; confirms that all orders are acknowledged prior to the end of the shift.

• Documents any problems with patients, staff, and physicians.

• Knowledge of the needs of patients according to their age group and the ability to modify care according to patient’s age. Technologist will most frequently care for adults and geriatric patients; and, on occasion, adolescents, children, infants, and neonates.

• Lifts, moves, and transports patients via wheelchair or cart. Positions patients as needed for procedures.

• Identifies problems and communicates appropriately to immediate supervisor, offers solutions as appropriate.

• Available for emergency cases on a rotational basis. Teaches clinical affiliated students.

• Works in front office/file room as needed.

• Transports patient from patient room, Surgery Center, ESD, and other patient care areas. Returns patient to room or other patient care area.

• Performs office procedures accurately in absence of clerical personnel. Performs all clerical functions when not performing technical procedures.

• Cleans and disinfects x‑ray room and equipment.

• Maintains stock supplies for assigned room or work area.

• Uses lead shield to protect unaffected parts of patient’s body from exposure to x‑ray.

• Wears film badge at collar level. Uses time, distance, and shielding to minimize exposure to radiation.

• Participates in department performance improvement activities as assigned and attends required training.

  
  

What You Will Need:

• Completion of formal radiologic technology training in an approved school and ability to meet and maintain requirements for registry by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologist (ARRT). Maintain licensure by State of Ohio, Department of Health.

• Working knowledge of the RIS and PACS systems.

• Must be currently certified in CPR, and be recertified bi-annually.

• Ability to work in an environment that is fast-paced and requires multi-tasking.

• Uses proper body mechanics. Ability to push, pull, and/or lift patient from carts, wheelchairs, or other transport devices, onto imaging table/couch.

• Complies with all Service Excellence, Quality, and customer satisfaction initiatives.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)