Interventional Radiology Technical Director, Radiology (Multi-Modality)

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

Named as one of the top 100 Hospitals in the world, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is looking for an Interventional Radiology Technical Director. Join a team of distinguished physicians and staff, providing top notch care in the diverse and historic Boston Longwood area. Be part of a collaborative and innovative team, with growing services that encompass expansion into a new inpatient building, new technology and exciting research!

IR/INR Director is responsible for overseeing departmental process improvements and metrics, Epic standardization,  projects in collaboration with DFCI and overall financial statement for the departments. The Director role is actively engaged in operations and recruitment efforts for frontline staff. 

Job Description:

Job Summary: Understands practice, policies and regulations in own area of responsibilities, possesses working knowledge of procedures in own discipline specialty. Reports to the sr. operations director of radiology and is guided on clinical practice by the modality section chief. Is responsible for the overall function of their area, responsibilities include; direct or delegated development and implementation of procedures, overall efficiency, productivity and quality of work performed by assigned staff. In addition, responsible for the care and maintenance of equipment.

Essential Responsibilities:

Represents the division on all technical leadership initiatives; including maintaining relationships with other managers to develop and coordinate department wide initiatives, acts as the primary representative of the division when interfacing with hospital department, physicians and nursing.

Influences and motivates staff behaviors in accordance with department policies and code of conduct, informs, trains and communicates to ensure team morale and effectiveness.

Provides direction, development and supervision of staff including interviewing, hiring and when necessary termination. Ensures staff observance of hospital policy, department and if applicable radiation and MR safety practices and policies.

Coordinates and maintains inventory of supplies and equipment used in their division. Ensure utilization is appropriate for volume of procedures, monitors procedure mix and changes in technique, altering inventory levels if necessary.

Maintains, updates and revises divisions policy and procedure manual and ACR and all quality certifications where applicable.

Participates in department leadership team by ensuring technical excellence, high quality and safety in the care of patients, efficiency of service and high quality QA/QI program.

Participates in continuous improvement projects through Lean initiatives and leadership.

Has the authority to direct and support managers with functional area responsibilities. Has the direct responsibility to undertake the following employment actions: hiring, termination, corrective action and performance reviews. Direct Reports: 2-3 Indirect Reports: 51-100

Assists in planning, monitoring and/or managing budget in functional area of department.
 

Required Qualifications:

Associate's degree required. Bachelor's degree preferred.
Registration American Registry of Rad Tech required
License, certification, and/or registry in the discipline of Radiology.
Certificate Basic Life Support required.
3-5 years related work experience required and 1-3 years supervisory/management experience required
New hires will have 30 days to provide BLS certification. Certification has to be with the American Heart Association (AHA).
Advanced technical computer skills as required for technical support specific to functional area and related systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

RAML (Radiology MA License) for CT and for General DX, OR ARDMS (American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers) for Ultrasound, OR ARMRIT or CAMRT for MRI.
 

Competencies:

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions with significant, broad implications for the management and operations of a major department or multiple departments. Participates in decisions on overall strategy and direction of the organization.

Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are broad, complex and abstract, often involving Medical Center-wide issues and requiring substantial creativity, resourcefulness, staff engagement, Lean diagnostic techniques, negotiation and diplomacy to develop solutions.

Independence of Action: Ability to set direction and vision for major departments or multiple departments. Establishes priorities, develops policies and allocates resources.

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