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UPMC Mercy is seeking a full-time MRI/CT Tech Assistant to support the MRI Department in Downtown Pittsburgh!

The MRI/CT Tech Assistant will work rotating shifts within the department, including daylight, evening, and night hours. This role may have a comibination of 8-hour, 10-hour, and/or 12-hour shifts, depending on departmental needs, and will work rotating weekends to support the department's operations. There will be a holiday shift rotation, as needed, but no on-call or travel required!

The MRI/CT Tech Assistant will support staff technologists and other departmental staff in the daily provision of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and/or CT services. Under direct supervision, this role assists and supports the provision of MRI services to our patients in either our 24/7 MRI center or our Outpatient MRI center. Supporting critical patient care needs, the MRI/CT Tech Assistant will bolster patient safety and Imaging patient flow.

Responsibilities:

• Meets patients as they arrive to department.

• Assists with paperwork preparation and documentation.

• Answers phone calls regarding scheduling, questions, and patient history.

• Escorts patients to dressing areas and assists the patients, as needed.

• Conducts MRI screening according to established procedures to ensure safe scanning and entrance into the MRI scan room, and provides completed screening form to technologist for review.

• Assists with lifting and transferring patients to and from exam tables, as needed.

• Establishes IV access (e.g. for contrast administration) according to established procedures.

• Assists technologist in the preparation of oral contrast for patients and provides patient instructions, as needed, under the direction of the technologist in alignment with existing department guidelines.

• Properly pads, positions, centers, and aligns the patient and MRI coil or CT table for proper imaging of the body part according to established protocols under the technologist direction.

• Performs telemetry monitoring during exam, as necessary/if applicable to the business unit, providing patient care support as needed.

• Provides discharge instructions as directed by the technologist.

• Reports any equipment malfunctions to technologist and supervisor.

• Assists in the performance of QC functions, including all daily and weekly QC testing according to departmental guidelines.

• Transports patients to and from the unit when required.

• Cleans and prepares exam room following established procedures.

• High School diploma or equivalent.

• At least one year of previous healthcare experience.

• Medical terminology knowledge preferred.

• Recent medical and/or imaging office experience preferred.

• IV insertion experience preferred.

• Basic Cardiac Arrythmia knowledge preferred.

• Strong customer/patient service skills highly preferred.

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 31 Child Abuse Reporting

• Act 33

• Act 34

• Act 73 FBI Clearance

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran