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MRI Technologist

Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated.

Job Description:

• Performs all MRI procedures in accordance with established department policies and procedures to ensure the best possible patient care services are delivered.
• Reviews radiology exam requests and patient identification to ensure safe, appropriate, and cost-effective imaging.
• Applies a broad range of skills to ensure the exam is completed timely and meets quality and compliance standards.
• Provides appropriate MRI screening process to patients, staff, and self according to prescribed safety standards.
• Assists in the orientation and training of new staff.

Technical Capabilities:

• Anatomy & Physiology Knowledge: Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate anatomy and physiology knowledge in practical applications.
• Radiology: Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate radiology services in practical applications.
• Patient Documentation: Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate patient documentation in practical applications.
• Compliance: Can explain and apply basic statutory instructions in normal situations on the job.

Core Responsibilities:

• Executes job responsibilities with an understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team.
• Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment.
• Provides informal guidance and support to team members.

Professional Development:

• Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self and others to help improve performance and gain knowledge in new areas.
• Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships.
• Recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences.

Ensuring High Quality:

• Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly.
• Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them.
• Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring.

Managing Resources Effectively:

• Demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.
• Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.
• Demonstrates strong understanding of information or data to identify and elevate opportunities.

Fostering Innovation:

• Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches.
• Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges.
• Views difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embraces change instead of emphasizing negative elements.

Position Qualifications:

• Graduate of an approved discipline-specific program
• 1 year of relevant work experience
• LIC-American Registry of Radiologic Technologists

Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and to the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action.