Lead Interventional Diagnostic Radiologic Technician

Allied Health Professional Duties

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Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include but not limited to:

• Manages and directs the work or IR/Cath lab and IR technologists.
• Develops and maintains a weekly rotational technologist schedule to ensure fair and equal assignments of the technologists and their duties.
• Initiates recommendations to higher authorities on changes to increase productivity, revise staffing, assure cost efficiency and improve morale.
• Performs routine clerical procedures, scheduling and registering patients in the Radiology Information System (RIS).
• Incumbent is responsible to schedule, re-schedule, and cancel patient examinations according to their current status within this section of Radiology.
• Ensures all interventional radiology requests and entered with pertinent radiology information into computer system. Directs the following duties performed by all assigned technologists and clerical personnel: requests, registers, completes, cancels and edits exams via the computer radiology information system (RIS) and the patients' Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS).
• Incumbent will ensure self, and staff is reporting equipment malfunctions properly, timely and accurately.
• Recommends, coordinates and evaluates new or modified procedures/protocols.
• Provides information to employees concerning management goals and objectives and provides higher-level supervisors with timely feedback on employee's participation and concerns.
• Coordinates new product evaluation. Recommends methods and products to reduce costs and/or increase quality. Continually reviews new developments in the field Interventional Radiology.
• Ensures all Interventional exams utilize appropriate surgical sterile techniques, when required.
• The lead technologist must have a good working knowledge of the appointment and scheduling system.
• Ensures that adequate quantities of supplies are available to meet workload demands through a systemized process of ordering, receipt and inventory control.
• The lead technologist ensures that the relationships with management, co-workers, patients, and the public are consistently courteous, respectful, and cooperative in nature.
• Works with the radiologist as a member of the radiographic team. Must assist and anticipate the needs of the radiologists and the performance of the exam.
• Practices radiation safety in order to reduce exposure to patients, staff and self.
• Accurately transfer patients' images to the hospital picture archiving computer system (PACS system) and from the PACS system to CD format for transfer to patients.
• Lead Technologist advises radiologists or referring physicians of examination results and notifies them of procedures requiring their immediate attention.
• Performs interventional exams of the head, neck, spine, chest, body, etc. with and without the use of contrast materials and general radiography exams as needed.
• Responsible for the intravenous injection of contrast media by hand injection.
• Technologist meets the requirements set forth in See VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G-25., maintaining certification provided by the American Registry of Radiologic Technology, in order to perform Radiographic examinations.
• Participates in stewardship, quality and service goals within the department.
• Understanding of reusable medical equipment (RME) requirements and development of policy and procedure to ensure all equipment within the section is cleaned within RME guidelines.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:00am-3:30PM

Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not authorized

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.

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)

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 monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 40275-F

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized