Imaging Services and Operations Supervisor

$10,000 Sign-On Bonus

Job Summary

UT Southwestern Medical Center is hiring an Imaging Services and Operations Supervisor at Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Imaging Supervisor will oversee a busy outpatient imaging clinic with CT, US, X-ray, and MRI while working under minimal supervision with the Imaging Leadership to perform employee oversight, payroll, scheduling, imaging exams, exam protocols, accreditation, operations, and facilitation of equipment maintenance.

Work Schedule

Monday – Friday from 8:00am – 5:00pm

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. At UT Southwestern, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development that align with your future goals and help to provide security for you and your family. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more that are all available on the day you start work. UT Southwestern is honored to be a Veteran Friendly work environment that is home to approximately 800 veterans. We value your integrity, dedication, and the commitment you’ve made to our country. We’re proud to support your next mission. Ranked by Forbes as one of the Top 10 National Employers, we invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for growth.

Experience and Education

• Two years of college education or equivalent
• 3 years of experience as an Imaging Technologist
• 1-year of supervisory experience
• Basic Life Support (BLS) by the American Heart Association for Healthcare or the American Red Cross
• Licensed by Texas Medical Board as a Medical Radiologic Technologist
• Certification and licensure are required by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) for specialties such as CT, MRI, and, Radiography OR Certification and licensure are required by the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography OR Certification and licensure are required by the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board.
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field, preferred
• Minimum 1 year of experience with Enterprise software applications for radiology information systems (RIS) and picture archiving communication (PACS) experience, preferred

Job Duties

• Directly supervises employees and daily operations in Imaging Services modalities. Works with Team Leads in providing adequate staffing by demonstrating flexibility and willingness to utilize all resources available to provide core staff to ensure patient continuity of care and imaging services. Assists technologists in performing diagnostic exams when required by workload staffing levels and productivity metrics. Collaborates with scheduling and physicians for add on/conflicting procedures with regards to patient flow and resource availability. Able to utilize patient service recovery techniques to provide optimal outcomes.
• Responsible for new employee and student orientation. Utilizes opportunities to teach, role model, and mentor staff toward continual growth and professional development that includes providing opportunities for staff to participate in department/hospital activities, committees, in-services, special projects, and continuing education. Develops annual competencies to assist with new imaging technologies and to continually raise the education level of the front line staff. Actively participates in hiring, promotion, and course correction as well as input/assistance with annual performance reviews and new employee orientation feedback. Responsible for positive continual employee engagement scores. Provides timely and confidential counseling with staff as appropriate and documents events with leadership.
• Maintains and reviews daily payroll for corrections, accuracy, and overtime trends. Monitors supplies for inventory control and expired products. Ensures staff are competent in entering event reports and serves as a resource when inputting or investigating facts. Notifies leadership immediately regarding high-risk situations.
• Quality Control ~ Assists biomed, physicists, radiation safety, vendors, staff, and leadership with recording, analyzing, and reviewing equipment reports to facilitate repairs/maintenance, compliance, and other institution requirements. Must be able to lift 40-50lbs.
• Responds to inquiries/calls/emails in a timely and professional manner. Utilizes the organizational culture behaviors to include PACT and AIDET. Actively participates in codes and rapid responses. Communicates shift hand off regarding workflow issues with equipment or pending exams with oncoming staff. Functions in the department as a part of an interdisciplinary team and collaborates in the care and service delivery process of patient care through effective communication with other service lines. Prioritizes exams with scheduling exams to ensure smooth workflow, minimize wait times and address stat requests.
• Adheres to hospital policies, procedures, competencies, regulatory compliance, infection control, hospital education, new yearly metrics/department goals, patient satisfaction, and fiscally responsible with regards to equipment, supplies scheduling, overtime, etc. Maintains patient confidentiality (HIPAA) and ensures that all processes and procedures are maintained to secure and protect all workstations in all work areas.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Work requires ability to assist biomed, physicists, radiation safety, vendors, staff, and leadership with recording, analyzing, and reviewing equipment reports to facilitate repairs/maintenance, compliance, and other institution requirements. .
• Work requires ability to build high functioning teams that work in tandem within interdepartmental modalities.
• Work requires ability to develop annual competencies to assist with new imaging technologies and to continually raise the education level of the front line staff.
• Work requires ability to devise creative alternatives and suggestions to workflow constraints.
• Work requires ability to respond to and interact with all stakeholders with the PACT standards.
• Work requires ability to supervise employees and daily operations in Imaging Services modalities.

Working Conditions

Work is performed primarily in a hospital or hospital clinic environment.

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.