Job Description
Responsibilities:
Position Summary: Performs Screening and Diagnostic Mammograms, Wire Needle Localizations, Stereotactic Breast Biopsies, Galactograms, and Quality Assurance. Provides excellent patient care. Performs accurate documentation of patient medical records. Demonstrates excellent customer service and effective communication. TH technologists are required to cover all sites as necessary.
Qualifications
Education:
- Completion of a Radiologic Technology Associates degree program or equivalent.
Experience:
- Minimum one (1) year Mammography experience preferred.
License/Certification:
- ARRT(M) certified or eligible (If eligible, must become ARRT(M) certified within two years of employment) required
- South Carolina Radiation Quality Standards Association certified required.
- American Heart Association Healthcare provider course with Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required to be initially completed with the TH Organizational Development Office within 30 calendar days of hire date (exceptions to obtain certification from a provider other than the TH Organizational Development Office are approved by TH Organizational development on a case by case basis). BLS Recertification is required every two (2) years.
Special Skills: Radiation Safety, Anatomy and Positioning, Physics, Computer Skills, Medical Terminology, General Safety
Physical Requirements:
Medium
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is
frequently (activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) required to stand, sit, and walk;
occasionally (activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) to use hands, fingers; and
frequently to talk or hear. The employee must exert 20 to 35 pounds of force
occasionally, and/or 10 to 15 pounds of force
frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force
constantly to move objects.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.