Diagnostic Imaging Assistant, 2024-153

Job Detail

Job Title:Diagnostic Imaging Assistant

Department:83069-Radiology

Location:Farmington

FTE%:1

Shift2nd

Search #:2024-153

Closing Date:09/01/2023

Recruiter:Manson, Kia

Additional Links:

This position is covered by the NP-6 Bargaining Unit; click here to review the current NP-6 Contract.

This position is in salary group FK-06; click here to review the current CL Pay Plan

Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership and Innovation. These are the values that define UConn Health, and we are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top rated organization is looking to add a full time Diagnostic Imaging Assistant to the Radiology Department.  If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for patient experience, we want to hear from you.  

At UConn Health, this classification is accountable for performing a full range of basic tasks in clinical patient care support, MRI/CT Unit readiness and clerical tasks.  

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

Maintains smooth and efficient work flow in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) or CT Scan Unit to include patient care support, scanning room and equipment readiness and clerical tasks

Places phone calls to patients in advance of appointments to screen for metallic objects

Prints patient schedules and organizes patient files

Uses Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Radiology Information System (RIS) computer systems to manage the patient's flow of electronic information

Scans paper documents into PACS

Assesses supply inventories and places orders

Cleans areas as assigned

Conducts patient communication in a professional manner and appropriate to patient age, condition and cultural needs

Answers phones and handles calls as appropriate

Prepares the Imaging Unit to perform scans to include changing of MRI coils, placing clean linens on beds and other related tasks

Prepares scan rooms and work areas for general imaging services including stocking of rooms and carts with supplies and equipment

Checks equipment and reports those which are malfunctioning

Prepares patients by conducting an interview and records information

Prepares and assists patient to change garments for examination

Provides assistance to the patient to be positioned on the table for study

Assists the technologists with patient lifts

Performs related duties as required

 MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY:

Knowledge of medical assisting practices

Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures

Knowledge of relevant State and Joint Commission regulations

Knowledge of patient safety goals

Ability to use computers and/or equipment technology such as Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)

Interpersonal skills

Oral and written communication skills

 EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:

General Experience:

One (1) year of radiology technical assistance to include patient support care.

 

Substitution Allowed:

A combination of education and experience that provides the ability and knowledge to perform the above duties may be substituted for the General Experience. 

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Incumbent must possess and retain a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or Professional Rescuer Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification.

Candidates in this class must pass a screening for implanted metallic objects. Imbedded ferromagnetic objects are not allowed in the MRI suite due to the best interest in the candidate's personal safety. Example: Candidates who possess a pacemaker cannot work in the MRI suite.

 WORKING CONDITIONS:

Incumbents in this class are subject to long periods of standing and must be able to lift a coil weighing approximately 35 lbs

Considerable effort may be required in assisting and/or lifting patients

There may be exposure to infectious or communicable diseases and chemical cleaning agents

 

SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Initially works under the close supervision of an Imaging Technologist or an employee of a higher grade and works more independently with acquired experience.

 

SCHEDULE: Primarily second shift rotating weekends, holidays, and other shifts as needed.

 

BASE HOURLY RATE: $17.72

 

This position is eligible for both Weekend and Shift Differentials in accordance with the New England Health Care Employees Union District 1199 collective bargaining agreement. 

 

Why UConn Health

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.  

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