Role Overview:
The CT Technologist supports a mobile imaging team across multiple facilities, delivering high-quality CT exams and ensuring patient safety and comfort.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform CT scans according to physician orders, protocols, and safety standards.
- Verify patient identity, gather history, and screen for contraindications, including contrast risks.
- Communicate procedures clearly with empathy, using AIDET techniques.
- Prepare and position patients, assist with mobility, and ensure safe transfers.
- Establish IV access, administer contrast media safely, and monitor for reactions.
- Operate CT scanners and injectors, ensuring accurate scans and safety.
- Optimize imaging techniques to produce diagnostic quality while minimizing radiation exposure.
- Evaluate images, recognize urgent findings, and coordinate with radiologists or physicians.
- Maintain accurate documentation, manage RIS/PACS entries, and perform quality control checks.
- Support daily operations, equipment maintenance, and regulatory compliance.
Qualifications & Skills
- High school diploma or equivalent and completion of an accredited Radiologic Technology program.
- At least 2 years of hospital-based Radiologic Technologist and CT experience.
- Certifications in ARRT-R, ARRT-CT, and BLS from the American Heart Association.
Additional Details:
The role offers a competitive pay rate, potential incentives, full-time employment with variable shifts, and benefits including PTO, health support, and education opportunities through a career development program. The position emphasizes teamwork, safety, and delivering compassionate patient care.