Supervisory Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Supervisory Nuclear Medicine Technologist

The Supervisory Nuclear Medicine Technologist works under the direction of the ACOS of Radiology. The employee and supervisor, in consultation, develop the deadlines, projects, and work to be done. The incumbent is assigned continuing responsibility for independently planning and carrying out the duties and resolving most of the conflicts which arise; coordinating the work with others as necessary; and interpreting policy in terms of established objectives and determines the approach to be taken and the methodology to be used. The supervisory nuclear medicine technologist will work independently with input from the Chief when necessary. The supervisor nuclear medicine technologist will keep the Chief of the service and other nuclear medicine physicians informed of important issues and potentially controversial matters. The incumbent will also:

• Oversee and plan monthly staff meetings
• Write and maintain functional statements for all Hybrid Title 38 staff members
• Research and respond to patient safety, equipment issues and recalls involving the Nuclear Medicine Service
• Manage procurement and contracting for Nuclear Medicine Service
• Provide budgetary analysis and projection for the service
• Ability to acknowledge and resolve customer, employee complaints
• Skill in providing administrative reports to management both orally and in writing
• Skill in writing and researching new nuclear medicine protocols
• Request, evaluate and recommend replacement nuclear medicine equipment
• Responsible for initiating changes in personnel status, hiring, promotions, awards, discipline
• Interview candidates for vacancies within the service, recommend appointments, advancements, or, when appropriate, disciplinary actions; evaluate performance; and identify continuing education and training needs
• Provide annual performance appraisal and semiannual progress reports for nuclear medicine staff
• Responsible for collecting and reporting of quality management data
• Acting as the COTR for the Nuclear Medicine Service
• Provide instruction to clinical staff, patients and family members
• Instruct nursing students, radiology students, new technologists, residents and others on techniques, procedures, equipment
• Develop and initiate new protocols which apply to current research findings
• Analyze dosimetry reports and institute or recommend additional radiation safety precautions as necessary to reduce exposure levels
• Perform required technical procedures for safe receipt, handling, transport, usage and disposal of radioactive material, assuring compliance with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), National Health Physics Program (NHPP), Department of Transportation (DOT) and license conditions.
• Recognize potential radiation contamination by visual and mechanical methods
• Schedule patient procedures, taking into consideration camera availability, scan length, patient condition, the need for multiple nuclear medicine studies, other clinic appointments of the patient, contraindications for the test and urgency of the request.
• Prepare studies for nuclear medicine physician's interpretation by insuring completeness of all forms involved in the procedure.
• Record appropriate data and related information on the proper patient worksheet and images.
• Perform radionuclide therapy in collaboration with the nuclear medicine physician.
• Receive and assay prescribed therapeutic doses.
• Monitor and properly store any radioactive waste for disposal
• Skill in providing complex nuclear medicine patient procedures
• Perform a full range of nuclear medicine diagnostic imaging, non-imaging, in-vitro and therapeutic procedures
• Prepares and administers radiopharmaceuticals/pharmaceuticals through various routes of administration, including, but not limited to; oral, inhalant, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous and intradermal (under the direction of an authorized user)
• Provide clinical instruction to student nuclear medicine technologists from affiliated programs and facilitate the attainment of established program objectives

Work Schedule: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 943660

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

US Department of Veterans Affairs