MRI Imaging Team Leader, Full-Time Evenings

Job Description

Be a part of a world-class academic health-care system at UChicago Medicine as an Imaging Team Leader in the MRI Department.

 

Eligible for a Sign-On Bonus up to $20,000

 

As the Imaging Team Leader, you will assist the Imaging Center Manager in maintaining continuity in the day-to-day operations of assigned modality in the Department of Radiology at imaging facilities in DCAM, CCD, Comer, and Mitchell Hospitals. The Imaging Team Leader acts as a resource person to other technologists, reviews images for quality, protocol, and proper labeling before submitting them for Radiologist interpretation, maintains inventory levels and fills out order levels, and meets regularly with the Imaging Center Manager to discuss problems or suggestions for improving procedures and patient through-put.

 

Essential Job Functions:

• Has a knowledge of and utilizes appropriate patient care protocol relating to the physical and psychological needs of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, young and mature adults, and geriatric patients.
• Assigns the technical staff to work stations. Using the posted work schedule as a guide. Distributes the work to technical staff controlling patient/work flow.
• Reviews Radiology request for the proper completion of exam data. Ensures correct data is entered into RIS.
• Reviews all exams for quality. Notifies technologists when images are to be repeated and the proper technical factors needed for correction. (i.e., positioning, density, etc.) Orientates new staff technologist and student technologist to department as required.
• Performs exam verification process for all cases logged into RIS. Including any special remarks are recorded appropriately. Indicates exam is in proper location in RIS. and directs the patient appropriately.
• Reports and records all malfunctioning equipment to ICL and Radiology Engineering appropriately.
• Acts as a key contact person for the section; works with physicians, nursing floors, radiologists, and ICLr to prioritize and coordinate the daily work load as appropriate.
• Acts as a leader and role model for staff technologists.
• Ensures all regulatory compliance standards are met to ensure patient and staff safety.
• Participates in continuing education activities to maintain appropriate Licensure and accreditation. Presents instructional seminars for staff technologists as needed.

Why You’ll Love This Role:

• Cutting-Edge Technology: Oversee operations in our brand-new Intraoperative MRI suite (opening Winter 2025), working alongside surgical teams to support groundbreaking imaging-based procedures.
• Growth & Leadership: Influence the future of imaging services as we expand, with opportunities to contribute to the development of our new Cancer Center opening in 2027.
• Impact & Collaboration: Serve as a key resource for technologists, ensuring imaging excellence while working closely with the Imaging Center Manager to optimize workflows and enhance patient throughput.

Required Qualifications:

• Currently registered as a (MR) Technologist by the ARRT or ARMRIT. 
• Minimum of three years experience as technologist
• CPR training required, BLS training recommended
• Effective communication skills

Position Details:

• Job Type/FTE: 1.00 FTE
• Shift: 1pm-9:30pm 
• Unit/Department: Rad MRI- Hyde Park
• CBA Code: Non-Union
• No Visa Sponsorship Available

If you’re an experienced MRI technologist ready to take the next step in your career—with opportunities to grow into leadership roles and shape the future of imaging at a world-class academic medical center—we want to hear from you!

Why Join Us

We’ve been at the forefront of medicine since 1899. We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us. Bring your passion.

 

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