Director, Medical Imaging (Licensed)

Kaiser Permanente; Riverside (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Director/Senior Director to lead radiology operations at Riverside Medical Center. The role drives multi-unit oversight, regulatory compliance, quality metrics, and patient-focused leadership across modalities and locations.

The position emphasizes strategic planning, resource management, and collaboration with senior leaders to improve efficiency, safety, and patient outcomes in radiologic services. Competitive compensation offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Anatomy, Physiology, Biology, radiological science, Healthcare Administration, or a directly related field AND minimum six (6) years of radiologic technology experience or experience in a directly related field OR Minimum nine (9) years of radiologic technology experience or experience in a directly related field.
• Radiologic Technologist Certificate (California) required at hire AND American Registry of Radiologic Technologists Certificate - Radiography required at hire
• American Registry of Radiologic Technologists Certificate - Nuclear Medicine Technologist required at hire
• Nuclear Medicine Technologist Certificate required at hire from Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board
• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Certificate required at hire
• Registered Vascular Technologist Certificate required at hire
• Basic Life Support required at hire

Responsibilities

• Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department; translates business strategy into actionable requirements.
• Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts; prioritizes and distributes resources.
• Directs patient care strategies, education, privacy, and service recovery; escalates opportunities for patient well-being.
• Leads safety programs, ensures ALARA principles, and mitigates risk across the organization.

Skills

Leadership

Budget management

Staff development

Operational leadership

Radiology operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Radiologic Science or Healthcare Administration

Minimum years radiologic technology experience

Tools

RIS

Radiology IT systems

Job description

Job Summary

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for leveraging subject matter expertise in imaging to ensure departmental operations across modalities and locations are compliant with all relevant regulations; providing oversight for quality and safety metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) required by regulatory bodies across all modalities; and providing oversight of efforts to align protocols and processes with guidelines and best practices.

• Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.
• Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.
• Ensures an individualized and compassionate patient care atmosphere by championing strategies and providing leadership for personnel to educate patients on relevant procedures, promoting effective communication, addressing patient questions/concerns, and serving as a role model to enhance patient cooperation; refining and disseminating protocols for maintaining patient privacy and confidentiality; directing the overall strategy, operations, and resolution of escalated patient questions/concerns for service recovery; and escalating innovative opportunities for enhancing patient well-being and comfort throughout the duration of patient visits.
• Influences the day-to-day operations of the department by driving awareness for the importance of maintaining the supply and preparation of departmental supplies and disposables for use in assigned areas, while upholding inventory management standards and policies/protocols; directing the overall cooperative efforts with labor partners to enhance quality, service, and safety while driving cost-saving initiatives throughout the organization, overseeing multiple senior managers; and developing opportunities for advancing access, service quality, and efficiency through systemic strategic innovation and implementation.
• Prioritizes patient and employee safety by managing programs that ensure compliance with all internal and external safety-related regulations, policies, and procedures (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals, As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) Principles); adhering to and proactively monitoring the evolution of the most appropriate safety measures and instructions provided to patients, family members, and hospital staff as required; directing the overall implementation and enforcement of rules, regulations, and standards to improve quality of care, streamline operations, and mitigate risk throughout the organization, overseeing multiple senior managers; and evaluating the effectiveness of procedures and processes for resolving and/or escalating equipment malformations, accidents, and/or unsafe conditions to appropriate personnel.
• Drives adherence to appropriate protocols when performing radiologic/fluoroscopic examinations by serving as a subject matter expert when evaluating a patients complex clinical history with the exam to be performed, and when the appropriateness of the alternatives recommended are unclear when contraindications are present; partnering with senior leadership to implement recommended improvements to the way in which patients are received and double identified using appropriate criteria; planning for the routine evaluation of the accuracy of data entered and stored in the Radiology Information System (RIS); leveraging an expert understanding of the features and performance capabilities of the general radiology, fluoroscopy, and portable imaging systems and how it is integrated into the broader diagnostic process; developing standard strategies for use when selecting the technical factors that will result in optimum imaging for each patient;and forecasting the resources needed to implement identified opportunities for improving the efficiency of patient processing and transportation before, during, and after the procedure.

Job Summary

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for leveraging subject matter expertise in imaging to ensure departmental operations across modalities and locations are compliant with all relevant regulations; providing oversight for quality and safety metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) required by regulatory bodies across all modalities; and providing oversight of efforts to align protocols and processes with guidelines and best practices.

Essential Responsibilities

• Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.
• Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.
• Ensures an individualized and compassionate patient care atmosphere by championing strategies and providing leadership for personnel to educate patients on relevant procedures, promoting effective communication, addressing patient questions/concerns, and serving as a role model to enhance patient cooperation; refining and disseminating protocols for maintaining patient privacy and confidentiality; directing the overall strategy, operations, and resolution of escalated patient questions/concerns for service recovery; and escalating innovative opportunities for enhancing patient well-being and comfort throughout the duration of patient visits.
• Influences the day-to-day operations of the department by driving awareness for the importance of maintaining the supply and preparation of departmental supplies and disposables for use in assigned areas, while upholding inventory management standards and policies/protocols; directing the overall cooperative efforts with labor partners to enhance quality, service, and safety while driving cost-saving initiatives throughout the organization, overseeing multiple senior managers; and developing opportunities for advancing access, service quality, and efficiency through systemic strategic innovation and implementation.
• Prioritizes patient and employee safety by managing programs that ensure compliance with all internal and external safety-related regulations, policies, and procedures (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals, As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) Principles); adhering to and proactively monitoring the evolution of the most appropriate safety measures and instructions provided to patients, family members, and hospital staff as required; directing the overall implementation and enforcement of rules, regulations, and standards to improve quality of care, streamline operations, and mitigate risk throughout the organization, overseeing multiple senior managers; and evaluating the effectiveness of procedures and processes for resolving and/or escalating equipment malformations, accidents, and/or unsafe conditions to appropriate personnel.
• Drives adherence to appropriate protocols when performing radiologic/fluoroscopic examinations by serving as a subject matter expert when evaluating a patients complex clinical history with the exam to be performed, and when the appropriateness of the alternatives recommended are unclear when contraindications are present; partnering with senior leadership to implement recommended improvements to the way in which patients are received and double identified using appropriate criteria; planning for the routine evaluation of the accuracy of data entered and stored in the Radiology Information System (RIS); leveraging an expert understanding of the features and performance capabilities of the general radiology, fluoroscopy, and portable imaging systems and how it is integrated into the broader diagnostic process; developing standard strategies for use when selecting the technical factors that will result in optimum imaging for each patient;and forecasting the resources needed to implement identified opportunities for improving the efficiency of patient processing and transportation before, during, and after the procedure.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of experience managing operational or project budgets.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Anatomy, Physiology, Biology, radiological science, Healthcare Administration, or a directly related field AND minimum six (6) years of radiologic technology experience or experience in a directly related field OR Minimum nine (9) years of radiologic technology experience or experience in a directly related field.
• Radiologic Technologist Certificate (California) required at hire AND American Registry of Radiologic Technologists Certificate - Radiography required at hire

• American Registry of Radiologic Technologists Certificate - Nuclear Medicine Technologist required at hire

• Nuclear Medicine Technologist Certificate required at hire from Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board

• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Certificate required at hire

• Registered Vascular Technologist Certificate required at hire

• Basic Life Support required at hire

Preferred Qualifications

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

Job Duties

For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.
• Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.
• Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.

Primary Location: California,Riverside,Riverside Medical Center/Medical Offices 1

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Shift: Day

Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM

Working Hours End: 04:0 4 PM

Job Schedule: Full-time

Job Type: Standard

Worker Location: Onsite

Employee Status: Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-SCAL-01|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level: Director/Senior Director

Department: Riverside Med Center - X-ray-Day - 0806