Radiology Assistant
Primary location: Morristown,NJ
Schedule: Full-time
Type: Tech(Crd,Sur,Rad,NucMed,Neuro)
Shift: Fri-Sun 8am-9pm
Job ID: 6499
Position Summary:
To provide excellent customer service and clinical services in accordance with Atlantic Health Pride Values. Provide support to the Imaging technologists to ensure optimal patient care and efficient departmental operations.
Responsibilities include:
- Validate patient identity as per AHS universal protocol 2 patient identifiers.
- Provide transport to/from ED to imaging modalities via stretcher/ wheelchair/bed.
- Assist with positioning and transferring patients comfortably and safely on exam tables utilizing assistive devices i.e., ceiling lift, sliding board.
- Maintain infection prevention measures cleaning with hospital approved wipes as per instructions for use.
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of modality workflows to ensure optimal patient care. Assist patients with toileting once deemed competent to perform.
- Perform scheduling and processing of ED patients and inpatient and outpatient orders in EPIC. (Site dependent once deemed competent to perform.)
- Complete ancillary tasks to ensure efficient and consistent departmental operations, i.e., specimen delivery to lab.
- Promotes positive relations between self, team members, and radiologist.
- Understands, supports, promotes, and adheres to the Customer Service of extraordinary care and follows AHS policies and procedures.
- Demonstrate protection and safety for patients and team members as outlined in department protocols and regulatory guidelines pertaining to radiation safety.
- Provides care appropriate to the condition and age of the patient, including pediatric, geriatric, and general population.
- Must be flexible for department work schedule.
- Completes annual educational requirements, includes but not limited to MRI safety.
- Ensure par levels are met and communicated to lead/ designee when supplies are low. Restock supplies, ensure expirations dates are within date of use.
- Perform other assigned or outlined duties of Radiology Assistant.
Position Qualifications Required
High School Graduate
Training/Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS) from the American Heart Association
The ability to lift 50lbs
Skills/Activities
Excellent interpersonal skills. Effective verbal and written skills. Basic proficiency with computer system
Experience
Minimum 1-2 years of experience preferred as a Radiology Assistant, or Nurse’s Assistant.
Strong candidates with no previous experience will be considered and trained once onboarded.
About US
ABOUT US
At Atlantic Health System, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities, will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 20,000 team members. Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:
- Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
- Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
- Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
- Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
- Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
- Goryeb Children’s Hospital, Morristown, NJ
- CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
- Atlantic Home Care and Hospice
- Atlantic Mobile Health
- Atlantic Rehabilitation
We also have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group. Atlantic Accountable Care Organization is one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and we are a member of AllSpire Health Partners.
We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:
- 100 Best Companies to Work For ® and FORTUNE® magazine for 15 years
- Best Places to Work in Healthcare – Modern Healthcare
- 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare – Becker’s Healthcare
- 100 Accountable Care Organizations to Know – Becker’s Hospital Review
- Best Employers for Workers over 50 – AARP
- Gold-Level “Well Workplace”: Wellness Council of America (WELCOA)
- One of the 100 Best Workplaces for “Millennials” Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
- One of the 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care: Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
- Official Health Care Partner of the New York Jets
- NJ Sustainable Business
Morristown Medical Center is a nationally-recognized leader in cardiology and heart surgery, orthopedics, gynecology, geriatrics, gastroenterology and GI surgery, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology.
We are the only hospital in New Jersey named one of America’s ’50 Best Hospitals’ for six consecutive years by Healthgrades and one of the World’s Best Hospitals by Newsweek. We were included on Becker’s Healthcare 2020 list of “100 Great Hospitals in America”. In addition, Leapfrog recognized us with an “A” hospital safety grade – its highest – twelve consecutive times, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded us again with its highest five-start rating in 2020.
Morristown Medical Center is a Magnet Hospital for Excellence in Nursing Service, the highest level of recognition achievable from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for facilities that provide acute care services. Our nonprofit hospital was also designated a Level I Regional Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons and a Level II by the State of NJ.
EEO STATEMENT
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