The Lead Interventional Technologist functions collaboratively with the radiologist and other staff such as nurses, fellow interventional technologists, and physicians to provide support for interventional and other diagnostic procedures within Medical Imaging. The technologist provides quality care to a wide variety of patients in a safe manner. In addition to the clinical responsibilities within IR, the interventional technologist may be required to support other modalities like CT, X-Ray or surgery as needed. This individual is also responsible for administrative duties such as updating procedure manuals, protocols, quality control testing, and assisting with staff scheduling as needed.

The Lead IR Technologist position is responsible for providing all aspects of the IR Technologist as well as providing leadership to IR staff members.

This position's work location is on-site only.

Direct Patient Care and Clinical Skills
* Works independently as a scrub or circulator maintaining sterile technique to set up room/trays for all procedures.

* Conducts necessary preprocedural preparations, reviews the patient consent, and ensure that all clinical concerns have been addressed prior to procedure.

* Validate and reconcile patient procedure and supply charges on a daily basis.

* Responsible for image acquisition, transfer and archiving of images, troubleshooting clinical and equipment challenges.

* Performs various activities to interventional exams on inpatients and outpatients.

* Explain procedure to patient, answers questions, addresses any concerns.

* Draws up medications for the procedure.

Quality and Safety
* Practices radiation safety in accordance with regulations.

* Maintains appropriate documentation for patient procedures.

* Able to identify adverse events and use critical thinking to notify medical staff

* Supports management with quality improvement initiatives.

* Comply with HIPAA requirements to maintain patient confidentiality.

Professional Development
* Attend continuing education programs, and conferences to advance skills and knowledge work toward appropriate certifications (VI, ACLS)

* Membership to professional organization related to specialty.

* Assists with maintaining control of the supply inventory to maintain appropriate par levels.

* Maintains licensure.

Compliance/Safety
* Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.

* Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee's area of responsibility.

* If required for the position, ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.

* Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame.

Leadership
* Provide team leadership to staff in the modality.

* Act as a resource and first point of contact of escalation resource to address the needs of staff, patients, and families.

* Serve as a procedure specialist and subject matter expert on modality and its processes and procedures.

*Acts as the day-to-day lead for operations of the department and assures efficient operation and workflow.

*Responsible for maintaining the work schedule, workflow and staff schedules for the department.

*Participates in the hiring processes, performance evaluation and handling of issues, and in problem solving for the team.

*Acts as the expert for all things accreditation for their modality.

*Performs tracer audits as necessary for modality.

Education
Associates of Applied Science in Radiologic Technology - Required
Bachelor's of Radiology Science or related science or healthcare education - Preferred

Certification & Licensures
BLS- Required

Current Arizona Medical Radiologic Technologist (MRT)- Required

Registered Radiology Technologist-ARRT- Required
ARRT (VI) - Required within 18 months of hire.

CVRT- Preferred

Experience
General radiology technologist 1 year in hospital setting- Required (3 years experience - Preferred)

Cardiac Catherization/Vascular/Interventional Radiology minimum 2 years- Preferred
Experience in hospital Trauma 1 and Trauma 2 environment - Preferred

Healthcare is a rapidly changing environment and technology is integrated into almost all aspects of patient care. Computers and other electronic devices are utilized across the organization and throughout each department. Colleagues must have an understanding of computers, and competence in using computers and basic software programs.