Imaging Quality Coordinator

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital 1201 Grand

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Summary:

Collects and analyzes data to ensure the department functions according to defined practice standards and regulatory requirements for an assigned modality.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• In collaboration of Imaging Leaders, maintain and monitor staffing and workload requirements with respect to changing priorities in daily operations. Ensure adequate staffing patterns per shift.
• Coordinate staff orientation to new equipment and procedures; maintain in-service education records; prepare, schedule, locate, and publicize in-service education activities.
• Maintain sub-optimal imaging report including follow-up and review with the technologist. Monitor trends and instruct or retrain technologist in problem areas.
• Perform assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and modification of clinical education in radiology modalities.
• Perform Imaging and procedures in assigned modality.  Cover all aspects of patient care per assigned modality.
• Consult with physician leader around procedures done in assigned imaging modality.
• Follows radiation safety procedures and guidelines.
• Maintain all supply levels in the Imaging Department. Order, maintain, and distribute the supplies to help regulate costs in the department.
• Develops and maintains processes that support continued accreditation.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Associate's degree

EXPERIENCE

• Two years' experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more).
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication.
• Frequent use of hearing to distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent lifting/moving of patients.
• Frequent reaching, gripping and keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional use of vision to identify and distinguish colors.
• Occasional bending, stooping, squatting, twisting and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Rare kneeling and sitting.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 
 
State of Work Location: Illinois

•     Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
•     And
•         Radiologic Technologists - Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA)
•         Or
•         Radiologic Technologists – Temporary Accreditation - Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA)
•     And
•         ARRT-N Nuclear Medicine Technologist - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)
•         Or
•         ARRT-R Radiography - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)
•         Or
•         Certified Nuclear Medicine Technologist (CNMT) - Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board (NMTCB)
•     Or
•         Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
•         And
•                 American Registry of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologist (ARMRIT) - American Registry of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists (ARMRIT)
•                 Or
•                 ARRT-CT Computed Tomography - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)
•                 Or
•                 ARRT-M Mammography - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)
•                 Or
•                 ARRT-MR Magnetic Resonance Imaging - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)
•                 Or
•                 ARRT-T Radiation Therapy - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)
•                 Or
•                 Computed Tomography (CT) Credential - Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board (NMTCB)
•                 Or
•                 Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS) - Cardiovascular Credenti