Description du poste
This position is a Lead Diagnostic Radiologic Technologist located in Detroit, MI. The Lead DRT X-Ray Technologist is responsible for maintaining successful radiology operations by monitoring and making work assignments, provides input on performance, resolves daily workplace issues, and maintains efficient workflow.
PRINCIPALES MISSIONS :
Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include, but are not limited to: Manages and directs the work of lower graded technologists when procedures require assistance. Directs all section schedules in a manner to optimize workflow while maintaining flexibility for emergency cases, rearranging patients to accommodate these requests. Develops and maintains a weekly rotational technologist schedule to ensure fair and equal assignments of the technologists and their duties. Determines staffing requirements based on past, present, and future workload patterns and develops the weekly/monthly work schedules. Organizes staff work assignments, including lunch and break rotations. Reports absences and tardiness to Medical Imaging Supervisor and Clinical Manager. Recommends the reassignment of technologists, if necessary, because of call-ins or increased/decreased workload. Performs quality assurance and quality control procedures a routine basis to ensure peak performance of the equipment and its output. Initiates recommendations to higher authorities or, changes to increase productivity, revise staffing, assure cost efficiency, and improve morale. Assist radiologists in the less complex fluoroscopic examinations. Prepares contrast materials under the direction of the radiologist for the purpose of performing exams requiring injectable solutions such as IVP, cystogram, cholangiograms fistulagrams and arthrography and for the purpose of performing, oral and rectal exams of the GI tract. These procedures require the use of needles, syringes, renografin, barium, enema bags and drinking cups. Practices radiation safety to reduce exposure to patients, staff, and self. Utilizes the radiation safety principle of ALARA (As Low as Reasonably Achievable) to minimize radiation doses and releases of radioactive materials in accordance with our radiation safety program. Uses lead aprons, lead gloves, lead shields, lead lined walls, collimation, etc. to achieve ALARA. Ensures that all staff are compliant with radiation safety badges and similar tracking tools. Ensure that radiation badges are changed monthly or as appropriate. Communicates with supervisor and safety office on radiation safety issues. Responsible to the radiologists and supervisor for the quality and quantity of radiographic exams performed to assure a high level of acceptability of radiographs while minimizing patient dosage and reducing costs. Practices radiation safety to reduce exposure to patient, staff, and self. Other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade). Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience. Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child. Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the mon
À propos de Veterans Health Administration
OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans? John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit (Detroit VAMC) is a 160-bed full-service medical center that provides primary, secondary and tertiary care to Veterans in Southeast Michigan. There are approximately 330,000 Veterans residing in the primary service area. The Detroit VAMC is classified as a Level 1B complexity by Veterans Health Administration. We are a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research. The facility offers primary care and a full array of medical, surgical and mental health services including Cardiac Care, Cancer Care, Orthopedics, Surgical Servi