Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Technician – Department of Psychiatry

University of Colorado Anschutz

Department: Community Practice Division, Department of Psychiatry

Job Title: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Technician – Department of Psychiatry

Position #: 00851503 – Requisition #: 40688

Job Summary:

The Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Technician (TMS) is responsible for providing patient care under the direct supervision of a psychiatrist. The TMS technician will operate transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) machines to provide TMS treatments to patients with major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder in the CU Medicine Faculty Practice TMS Program.  The TMS technician will also follow research protocols to provide TMS for experimental indications such as PTSD, substance use disorders, and disorders of executive functioning.  They will provide support and psychoeducation to patients receiving TMS for psychiatric conditions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare patients for ascertainment of motor evoked potential.

• Operate and control settings of electrophysiologic recording device. 

• Measure, calculate, and log recorded electrophysiologic information. 

• Independently administer TMS according to clinical and research protocols. 

• Ascertain motor evoked potential under supervision.

• Operate and control settings of electrophysiologic recording device.  

• Measure, calculate, and log recorded electrophysiologic information. 

• Correctly position the TMS coil.

• Understand potential for adverse effects and notify the psychiatrist if any are observed.

• Assist in the management of adverse effects including seizures.

• Administer validated rating scales to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment.

• Provide psychoeducation curriculum to patients.

• Actively participate in marketing and patient recruitment. 

• Obtain insurance authorization.

• Assist the psychiatrist by gathering and reviewing medical records to aid in appropriate patient selection.

• Provide any in-house required training on TMS machines.

• Participate in scheduled individual supervision, health team meetings, interdisciplinary work groups, staff meetings, and other required meetings. 

• Cleans exam rooms and other patient care areas between each patient.

• Maintains work areas, exam rooms, supplies, equipment, medications, and immunizations. 

• Effectively copes with a fast-paced environment and typical job stressors.

• Documents work processes as required.

• Performs other clerical duties and tasks to improve provider productivity and clinic workflow as assigned, such as completing patient visit records, maintaining departmental logs, answering telephones and taking messages, checking in patients, and scheduling patient appointment