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UPMC welcomes your application to join our team as a full-time Radiology Assistant! This position features evening shift hours from Monday to Friday. Apply today to join a great team and receive a robust Totals Reward package!!

Responsibilities:

• Assists technical staff by preparing the exam room and supporting the Technologist as directed, ensuring a smooth workflow.

• Maintains confidentiality of sensitive information and exercises discretion with controversial or sensitive matters, upholding UPMC's professional image.

• Answers telephones, routes calls, and takes messages as appropriate to facilitate effective communication.

• Collaborates effectively with patients, professional staff, and other medical center personnel to foster positive relationships.

• Demonstrates a commitment to Service Excellence by understanding and addressing the needs of patients, families, physicians, and co-workers, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

• Performs image processing duties efficiently and accurately to support diagnostic operations.

• Enters data into the Radiology Information System (RIS) as directed by the Technologist, ensuring precise record-keeping.

• Assists in transferring and transporting patients, providing necessary support for their comfort and safety.

• Acts as a liaison between Radiologists, Technologists, and patients, communicating waiting periods and test status; instructs patients on changing clothes for exams and maintains adequate stock of gowns and other items in dressing rooms.

Required:

• High school graduate or equivalent

Preferred:

• 1-year of patient care experience

• Radiology experience

• Excellent communication skills due to high degree of interaction with physicians and patients

• Access to medications is limited to the distribution of the medication to the nurse

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

• Act 34

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran