Team Lead, Radiology at Kaiser Permanente summary:
The Team Lead, Radiology is responsible for overseeing daily radiology department operations, coordinating staff schedules, and ensuring high-quality patient diagnostic imaging services. This role involves leadership duties such as problem solving, staff training, quality assurance, and effective communication with radiologists and healthcare providers. The position requires proficiency in radiologic equipment, relevant certifications, and experience in diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT systems.
Job Summary:
In addition to providing diagnostic services in a hospital and/or clinic setting, to provide a leadership role responsible for the continuance of daily operations and assist in resolving problems with staff, equipment, and delivery of patient services. To maintain standards of patient care and work quality that promotes team concepts and reflects KPNW mission and philosophy.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Perform all duties of technical position, using knowledge, skills and abilities required for age of patient served.
- Coordinate daily activities of department to ensure proper work flow and quality of care is met to include scheduling of staff and day-to-day activity of patient procedures for fluoroscopy, general diagnostic, surgery and portables. Quality Assurance Functions.
- Internal/external problem solving to include patient and staff concerns at first level. Coordinates employee in-service/orientation/training and department meetings to comply with staff/federal/local law for facility and staff needs.
- Ensure lateral staff communication/coordination with radiologists and other health care providers. Maintain and order supplies. Assist supervisor/manager.
- Other (as assigned). Participates in on-call or standby schedule as assigned.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
Education
- Associates degree in Radiologic Science or related field
- High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.
License, Certification, Registration
- Diagnostic Radiologic Technologist License (Oregon) OR Certified Radiologic Technologist (Washington)
- Basic Life Support within 1 months of hire
- Radiologic Technologist Certification
Additional Requirements:
- Daily use of diagnostic equipment, Imaging and health care computer system.
- Demonstrates customer-focused service skills.
- Ability to use and apply excellent communication and interpersonal skills with all personnel.
- Proficient knowledge of radiology equipment and exams to perform fluoroscopy, DXA, surgery, portable and routine radiographic exams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum three (3) years of work experience of modality.
- Experience performing general radiographic exams using digital equipment within the last three (3) years.
- Organization skills, time management, prioritization, planning; attention to detail; problem solving, decision making, judgment;
- technical skills; initiative; communication, interpersonal skills, customer relations, organizational relations
- Adaptability; knowledge of and adherence to all Policies and Procedures; flexibility
- Prior leadership experience in an Imaging department or healthcare related field.
- Experience with McKesson PACS.
- Experience with EPIC electronic medical records system.
Keywords:
Radiology team lead, Diagnostic imaging, Radiologic technologist, Patient care, Fluoroscopy, Digital radiography, Medical imaging leadership, Healthcare coordination, EPIC EMR, PACS system