Description
Job Description:
This position works directly with and assists the clinical staff in their daily work. The incumbent assists clinical staff with direct patient care, clerical duties, and technical duties to support the team and expedite overall patient flow through the department.Posting Specifics:
- Benefits Eligible: No
- Hours: PRN (As needed)
- Shift Details: Variable
- Additional Details: Shift differentials given for evenings, nights and weekends
St. Vincent Healthcareis part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 286-bed level II trauma center has provided care in Montana and the surrounding area since 1898, and our 30-clinic network ensures community needs are met. We offer comprehensive, specialty care, including a "hospital within a hospital" specifically for children, and are proud to extend SCL Health's missions by treating the poor, the vulnerable, our community and each other.
Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, we've launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and Paid Time Off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.
We're proud to offer caregivers access to tuition assistance, certification assistance, up-front tuition through the PEAK (Path to Education, Advancement, and Knowledge) program, debt-free degrees, and other department education payments or employer-paid education assistance.
ScopeAs an Imaging Assistant you need to know how to:
- Contribute to the safety and comfort of patients, explains the procedures, and comforts the patients throughout the procedure. Prepares patients for procedures including changing patients into gown, checking for allergies, obtaining vitals, explaining paperwork and the procedure, and transporting patient to appropriate exam room.
- Facilitates patient workflows by assisting technologies as needed to include contact and schedule patients. Monitors workflow in procedure room, communicates delays to the patients, families and physicians.
- Assists during procedures including biopsy procedures, transports specimens to pathology, and maintains adequate inventory by ordering and stocking supplies as needed.
- Communicates with nursing units, ED, and physicians office regarding orders.
- Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety standards, environmental and infection control standards.
- Requires thorough knowledge and understanding of the imaging principals. Is aware of radiation safety requirements and reports areas of concern immediately to proper area for resolution.
- Maintains cleanliness of rooms and equipment to maintain work environment.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or equivalent, required.
- Current BLS certification endorsed by the American Heart Association, required
- One (1) year of clinical and computer experience in medical setting, preferred
- EMT license or Phlebotomist Certification or Certified Nursing Assistant Certification, preferred
Physical Requirements:
Hearing/listening, lifting, manual dexterity, pulling/pushing, seeing, sitting, speaking, squatting/kneeling, standing, and walking.Anticipated job posting close date:
07/23/2Compensation Information:
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