Mammography Technologist - $41-55 per hour
Company: Stability Direct
Location: Tenafly
Posted on: October 21, 2024
Job Description:
Job DescriptionStability Direct is seeking a Mammography
Technologist for a job in Tenafly, New Jersey.Job Description &
Requirements
- Specialty: Mammography Technologist
- Discipline: Allied Health Professional
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: Ongoing
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours
- Employment Type: StaffStability Healthcare is proud to partner
with an New Jersey-based facility. The system has a national
reputation for providing culturally sensitive care to a diverse
population, drawing patients from across the New York City region
to its specialty centers and renowned doctors. Holy Name's mission
to provide technologically advanced, compassionate and personalized
care extends across a continuum that encompasses education,
prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and wellness
maintenance. The system is known as a high-quality, low-cost
provider of extraordinary clinical care given by compassionate,
highly trained physicians and staff.
A Brief Overview
Perform a variety of duties in administering X-rays and radiopaque
substances to patients. Performs radiographic and mammography
procedures of a highly specialized nature.
What you will do
- Prepares room, equipment, medicine and materials as needed for
patients
- Cleans and disinfects x-ray room/equipment
- Assists with the preparations of chemical mixtures for
mammography biopsies and exams
- Assists radiologists in the administration of intravenous and
subcutaneous material.
- Prepares patient for exam. Explains procedure, positions
patient and assists patient at end of procedure
- Follows prescribed techniques in administering general and
specific X-rays. Adjusts equipment. Determines proper technique.
Determines image quality before transmitting exam to PACS.
- Ensures images have transferred adequately to PACS and
radiologist workstation
- Observes patient and machine during procedure and reports
unusual occurrences and records patient's condition
- Maintains stock supplies and performs general office
duties
- Assist in the performance of quality control testing as
needed
- Protects self and patient from injury and unnecessary radiation
by utilizing proper technique factors
- Assists in training new staff members
- Maintains and respects confidentiality
- Complies with medical center dress codes by wearing ID badge
and maintaining professional appearance
- Demonstrates commitment to own work schedule by adhering to
attendance standards
- Assists and transports patients in emergency situations to
designated areas. Arranges for transportation to and from nursing
units
- Reports and suggestions or positive changes to
supervisor
- Incorporates physiological and developmental age of patients
into overall plan for delivery of care
- Responsibilities may require an adjusted work schedule overtime
and evenings/weekend hours in order to meet the operational needs
of the Department and/or the Hospital
- Utilizing and or all Hospital provided equipment and or safe
work procedures; employee shall be required to lift all objects as
is practicable
- Performs other duties as assigned
Education Qualifications
- Graduate of an approved school of Radiographic Technology
Required
Experience Qualifications
- 1-3 years Minimum of one year of Radiography experience with
one year minimum in mammography Required and
- Must have 15 CME specific to breast imaging for the last 36
months. Required and
- Must have documentation for the performance of 200 mammograms
in the past 24 months Required
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- The employee must be able to perform the physical requirements
of this job, including but no limited to, standing, walking,
reaching with arms and hands, climbing, balancing. Must be able to
stoop, kneel and or crouch.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary
team to ensure that quality service is provided to clients and
physicians
- Ability to read, write and rationally comprehend the English
language
- Ability to recognize priorities and deal with them promptly
Licenses and Certifications
- ARRT Radiography Certification Registered ARRT in Radiography
and Mammography Upon Hire Required and
- Licensed by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection Upon
Hire Required and
- BCLS - Basic Life Support BLS-American Heart Assoc. Upon Hire
Required
Full Time
Days - M-F 9a-5:30p
Stability Healthcare is proud to partner with an New Jersey-based
facility. The system has a national reputation for providing
culturally sensitive care to a diverse population, drawing patients
from across the New York City region to its specialty centers and
renowned doctors. Holy Name's mission to provide technologically
advanced, compassionate and personalized care extends across a
continuum that encompasses education, prevention, diagnosis,
treatment, rehabilitation and wellness maintenance. The system is
known as a high-quality, low-cost provider of extraordinary
clinical care given by compassionate, highly trained physicians and
staff.
A Brief Overview
Perform a variety of duties in administering X-rays and radiopaque
substances to patients. Performs radiographic and mammography
procedures of a highly specialized nature.
What you will do
- Prepares room, equipment, medicine and materials as needed for
patients
- Cleans and disinfects x-ray room/equipment
- Assists with the preparations of chemical mixtures for
mammography biopsies and exams
- Assists radiologists in the administration of intravenous and
subcutaneous material.
- Prepares patient for exam. Explains procedure, positions
patient and assists patient at end of procedure
- Follows prescribed techniques in administering general and
specific X-rays. Adjusts equipment. Determines proper technique.
Determines image quality before transmitting exam to PACS.
- Ensures images have transferred adequately to PACS and
radiologist workstation
- Observes patient and machine during procedure and reports
unusual occurrences and records patient's condition
- Maintains stock supplies and performs general office
duties
- Assist in the performance of quality control testing as
needed
- Protects self and patient from injury and unnecessary radiation
by utilizing proper technique factors
- Assists in training new staff members
- Maintains and respects confidentiality
- Complies with medical center dress codes by wearing ID badge
and maintaining professional appearance
- Demonstrates commitment to own work schedule by adhering to
attendance standards
- Assists and transports patients in emergency situations to
designated areas. Arranges for transportation to and from nursing
units
- Reports and suggestions or positive changes to
supervisor
- Incorporates physiological and developmental age of patients
into overall plan for delivery of care
- Responsibilities may require an adjusted work schedule overtime
and evenings/weekend hours in order to meet the operational needs
of the Department and/or the Hospital
- Utilizing and or all Hospital provided equipment and or safe
work procedures; employee shall be required to lift all objects as
is practicable
- Performs other duties as assigned
Education Qualifications
- Graduate of an approved school of Radiographic Technology
Required
Experience Qualifications
- 1-3 years Minimum of one year of Radiography experience with
one year minimum in mammography Required and
- Must have 15 CME specific to breast imaging for the last 36
months. Required and
- Must have documentation for the performance of 200 mammograms
in the past 24 months Required
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- The employee must be able to perform the physical requirements
of this job, including but no limited to, standing, walking,
reaching with arms and hands, climbing, balancing. Must be able to
stoop, kneel and or crouch.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary
team to ensure that quality service is provided to clients and
physicians
- Ability to read, write and rationally comprehend the English
language
- Ability to recognize priorities and deal with them promptly
Licenses and Certifications
- ARRT Radiography Certification Registered ARRT in Radiography
and Mammography Upon Hire Required and
- Licensed by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection Upon
Hire Required and
- BCLS - Basic Life Support BLS-American Heart Assoc. Upon Hire
Required
Full Time
Days - M-F 9a-5:30p
Stability Direct Job ID #5131. Posted job title: Mammography
TechnologistAbout Stability DirectStability Direct, Stability
Healthcare's boutique permanent placement division was formed in
2022 with a mission of becoming a service leader in the industry.
In a very short period of time, we have become the staffing partner
of choice for award-winning and reputable health systems across the
country including Adventist Health, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center, Jupiter Medical Center, Roper Hospital, and Southeast
Georgia Health System. With decades of wide-ranging direct
placement experience and an unwavering dedication to white glove
service, we have found that by utilizing a truly collaborative and
personalized approach that we are able to solve even the most
complex staffing challenges that hospitals face today.
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