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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 our Radiology department. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you.
At UConn Health, this class is accountable for performing a full range of basic tasks in clinical patient care support, MRI Unit readiness and clerical tasks.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Initially works under the close supervision of a CT/MRI Technologist or an employee of a higher grade and works more independently with acquired experience.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES
Maintains smooth and efficient workflow in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 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 patients' communication in a professional manner and appropriate to patient age, condition, and cultural needs;
Answers phones and handles calls as appropriate;
Prepares the MRI Unit to perform MRI scans to include changing of 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 patients 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.
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; basic interpersonal skills; basic oral and written communication skills; ability to use computers and/or equipment technology such as Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE
One (1) year of experience performing radiology technical assistance to include patient support care; including transportation of patients throughout the hospital.
SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED
A combination of education and experience that provides the ability and knowledge to perform the above duties may be substituted for 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. Embedded 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.
SCHEDULE: Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday, 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm, rotating holidays and weekends, and other shifts as needed.
This position is eligible for Weekend Differential 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.
