Responsibilities

Grand View Health is seeking an energetic, patient-focused Mammography Technologist to join our program. Are you passionate about patient care and want to join a team recognized for excellence and chosen for caring? We offer state-of-the-art equipment in our new Hospital Health Pavilion! Grow your career with us and apply for immediate consideration!

The Mammography Technologist performs imaging utilizing the appropriate equipment for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment planning with regards to patient care. Competency to perform multiple types of imaging, including X-ray, Mammography and DEXA, involving Emergency Room patients, surgical patients, inpatients and outpatients is ideal. The Mammography Technologist will be working with all levels from staff to physicians and triaging quickly in a fast-paced work environment.

Essential Functions:

• Selects proper technical factors according to established protocol and study requested in order to produce quality images.
• Positions the patient according to established protocol in order to provide optimum diagnostic information.
• Assists radiologists and staff physicians as requested in order to promote continuity of care.
• Performs quality control on all completed studies prior to radiologist interpretation in order to ensure optimum information and verifies all studies in PACS.
• Ensures equipment viability through performing established warm-up procedure and equipment quality control.
• Calibrates equipment and performs required quality control procedures on a daily basis in order to ensure equipment viability.
• Communicates procedural instructions to all patients prior to examination in order to ensure patient comprehension.
• Reviews the daily patient schedule in order to maximize efficiency and minimize patient waiting time.
• Practices proper infection control.

Schedule: Monday to Friday. Start time varies between 7:00am and 9:00am, 8-hour shifts. Saturday rotation, 8:00am–12:00pm. Holiday and call rotation required.