Career Opportunities

Job Type: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Work Shift: Rotating (United States of America)

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Contributes to the Hospital's mission to care, heal and to excel in our community standards while training in performing Computerized Tomography (CT) examinations under supervision while meeting ACR imaging standards and maintaining safety standards using state-of the-art CT scanners, power injectors, PACS, and other related medical imaging equipment. This training CT technologist position will have an impact on quality, safety and patient experience.

Job Description:

Job Functions

Consistent with the CREATE values and inherent in a hospital environment, employees must be flexible in meeting patients' and the Hospital's needs. While the list below describes the primary functions of this job, all employees at Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals need to recognize that an essential element of their job is the ability to respond to unanticipated and/or changing situations. This may result in assuming responsibilities or tasks which are not on this list.

As part of the Radiology team and under the direct supervision of the CT Supervisor or licensed CT Technologist, the Computerized Tomography Technologist Trainee:

• Greets, escorts, assesses, educates and identifies patients making the patients feel welcomed and comfortable. Training will include how to perform safety and quality checks, including verifying exam orders.
• Training to include completing CT examinations following established exam protocols-established by CT Radiologist.
• Training involving entering examinations correctly, ensuring accurate and informative documentation and appropriate charges are entered.
• Training to include how to electronically send and store images and data appropriately in PACS.
• Training involving departmental procedures for maintaining records and logs to monitor quality and safety in accordance with departmental policies.
• Training involving equipment cleaning and maintaining a safe work environment presenting the best possible impression of facilities and fostering our culture of safety.
• Training to become familiar with supply and equipment issues to ensure optimum operations, equipment quality and long term equipment maintenance and life.
• Transports and provides ambulatory assistance to patients as necessary.
• Training in the education process and how to inform patients and family members throughout the patients' experience.
• Communicates effectively with the healthcare team utilizing established handoff procedures. Gives and accepts respectful feedback to enhance teamwork and the clinical training experience.
• Training to help minimizes preventable harm events and consistently executes the infection control protocols. Incorporates the Culture of Safety tools in daily practice, adhering to quality and safety guidelines and communicating near-miss or potential risks.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required: Graduate of an accredited program in Radiologic Technology

Preferred: Experience as an x-ray technologist or trainee

Required: For safety and quality reasons, must be able to read, write and communicate effectively in English with patients, visitors and fellow members of the hospital team

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS: Required:

• ARRT registered in Radiology
• Massachusetts State license in Radiology

LIFE SUPPORT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED: Basic Life support

POPULATION SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS: Neonates, Infants, Children, Adolescents, Adults, Geriatrics

OTHER JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Schedule requirements: 6-9 months of training in CT, 30 -40 hours as determined by CT leadership

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

Reports to CT Supervisor and Clinical Instructor

Not responsible for supervising the work of others

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

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