Director Radiology

Texas Health Resources, Inc.; Texas; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Health Resources, Inc. is seeking a Director of Radiology to lead the Radiology department at the Allen campus. The role focuses on clinical and business operations, staffing, and ensuring the highest standards of patient safety and exam quality.

The candidate should have 5+ years of imaging leadership, supervisory experience, and multi-modality imaging expertise (MRI, CT, Nuclear Medicine, Breast). A strong commitment to compliance and service excellence is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required; master's preferred.
• 5 years imaging leadership experience required; supervisory experience strongly preferred.
• Licenses: BCLS, GMRT/ARRT/CNMT/CRA as applicable.
• Multi-modality imaging experience (MRI, CT, Nuclear Medicine, Breast) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical/business operations of the Radiology department based on volume and standards.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and patient safety across exams and procedures.
• Collaborate with hospital leadership to set goals for the Radiology service line and drive quality improvement.
• Oversee staffing, payroll, and equipment maintenance to ensure uninterrupted patient care.

Skills

Imaging leadership

Staff management

Regulatory compliance

Multi-modality imaging

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in business or healthcare

Job description

Director Radiology

Are you looking for a rewarding career with top-notch benefits? We are looking for a qualified Leader like you to join our Texas Health family.

Position Highlights

Work location: Texas Health Allen - Core Work hours: Monday – Friday; 8:00a-5:00p; Texas Health Allen has served our community and the surrounding Collin County areas since 2000. Our 88-bed, acute-care hospital provides quality medical care to patients from Allen, Lucas, Fairview, McKinney, Melissa, Wylie, and nearby communities. We specialize in robotic and minimally invasive surgery, advanced cardiology, electrophysiology, orthopedic and spine treatments, as well as comprehensive women's and infant care. As an Accredited Chest Pain Center and STEMI-receiving facility, over 500 physicians practice across more than 25 specialties at our hospital. Texas Health Allen holds multiple certifications, including Joint Commission Gold Seal Certification as a Chest Pain facility, Level II Maternal and NICU designations, and recognition as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence. The hospital also earned Pathways to Excellence designation and Joint Commission Acute Heart Attack Ready (AHAR) Disease-Specific Certification.

The Director has the following duties and responsibilities:

Clinical/Business Operations Staffing department based on volume making adjustments as necessary. Managing payroll ensuring that time is being recorded and paid appropriately. Minimize manual payroll corrections through weekly review of payroll data. Ensuring employee attendance at town halls, brown bags, and employee forums. Ensures the department complies with regulatory standards. Ensures appropriate coverage within the department at all times. Facilitate timely equipment repairs. Make alternate arrangements to ensure that patient care is not compromised when equipment is down. Develops, implements, and evaluates programs and initiatives in order to meet volume, financial, quality, and service standards. Makes recommendations and adjustments when appropriate to achieve objectives and integrate THA services across departments. Collaborates to set goals for the Radiology service line that are in line with strategic initiatives. Accountable for programs that enhance patient safety and participates in hospital safety initiatives. Ensures patient exams are completed correctly and in a timely manner. Knowledgeable of equipment technical parameters adjust techniques appropriately for age related factors to compensate for attenuation based on tissue types and pathology. Ensure staff compliance with safe administration of contrast media and medications in accordance with product guidelines for injection rates. Ensure staff compliance with physician's orders and requisitions to ensure accuracy of exam and relevant clinical information. Maintains patient safety and confidentiality Assess level of patient care Demonstrates knowledge of contrast media Identifies and validates exam Demonstrates knowledge of emergency procedures. Analyzes, implements and evaluates current and new services within the service area. Reviews, recommends, develops and implements policies, procedures, programs, and standards, which guide and support the provision of services, regulatory, licensure, and accreditation standards. Initiates/collaborates with new program development Facilitate timely equipment repairs. Make alternate arrangements to ensure that patient care is not compromised when equipment is down.

Service Customer Service:

Timely follow through and response to issues or complaints (i.e. Event Reporting Tool investigations completed within 30 days, patient complaints addressed during hospital stay or within 24 hours post discharge, and CMS 7 day requirement is met). Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external clients. Ongoing education of staff on service expectations, including service recovery. Effective use of Leader Listening Rounds to proactively identify and resolve potential issues. Exemplifies service excellence and service recovery behaviors.

Patient Satisfaction:

Patient satisfaction indicators have been met. Review Press Ganey patient satisfaction data to determine trends and develop/implement action plans to ensure high levels of satisfaction are maintained. Reviews all patient, physician, and visitor comments regularly addressing identified issues in a timely manner with appropriate follow up. Appropriately responds to patient distress/emergency with notification, equipment, and supplies. Recognizes patients emotional, physical, developmental, cognitive and psychosocial conditions.

Quality and Performance Improvement Department Specific:

Implements and monitors continuous quality improvement programs to enhance patient care delivery and satisfaction, physician satisfaction, efficiency of care and clinical outcomes. Accountable for programs that enhance patient safety and participates in hospital safety initiatives. Identifies key performance indicators as appropriate for patient safety initiatives in areas of responsibility. Understands image quality, physics, and safety to public and self and can apply these principles. Ensure image quality Demonstrates knowledge of quality control Ensure department compliance with quality indicators (hand hygiene, patient identifiers, time out, etc).

Hospital Based:

Understand basic core measure standards and be able to describe how these measures relate to our strategic objectives. Develop a plan for incorporating core measure compliance into daily workflow. Develop a plan for educating, measuring, monitoring, and improving performance on the patient safety KPIs, including hand hygiene, patient identifiers, and timeouts if applicable. Create a mechanism for continuous quality improvement on the individual unit, to include at least one focused project per year in an area of need identified by the unit. Tier 2 observations with monthly reporting.

Financial Operations

Volume targets have been met. Revenue targets have been met. Expense targets have been met. Invoices processed in a timely manner. Labor productivity at 95% or above Overtime and call back targets have been met. Develops, monitors, adjusts and explains variances for operational and capital budgets for areas of responsibility. Manage the approved budget through frequent and regular monitoring, implementation of effective written action plans to address variances, and implementation and adjusting strategies as needed to meet budgetary expectations. Develops and implements corrective actions when necessary to ensure financial performance targets are realized. Develops and implements financial improvement and cost reduction initiatives to promote cost effective operation. Demonstrates cost effective awareness, avoids wasteful use of supplies. Ensures patient charges and supply requisitions are accurate. Supports colleagues in disbursement of limited resources to enhance patient safety and improved outcomes.

Human Resource Management

Timely completion of employee reviews. Retention indicators have been met. All mandatory training for staff completed. Initial and annual competency assessment of staff completed timely. Annual employee health screening of staff completed. Ensure that all employees maintain current licensure, certification, and registry as required by their job. Vacancy rate indicators have been met. Employee engagement survey participation goals have been met. Department engagement/partnership goals have been met and action plans have been completed. Employee engagement results for direct management meet established targets. Recognition of employees through Applause and Shining Star Programs. Ensure staff compliance with hospital and system policies. Ongoing monitoring and management of staff performance using the disciplinary process as appropriate. Promote professional growth, development and accountability in staff. Identify leadership talent and actively develop leadership skills for future opportunities. Recommends hiring and retention of sufficient numbers of qualified staff to provide care. Provides a work environment, which attracts and retains customer groups?? patients, payers, physicians, employees, families, and guests. Remains visible and accessible to staff. Rounds on all shifts. In collaboration with Human Resources makes hiring decisions.

Professional Accountability

Participates in hospital initiatives (i.e. fund raising events and community events) Serves on hospital and system based committees as appropriate Maintains current licensure and certification as required by position. Adheres to hospital and system policies. Completes mandatory training and annual employee health screening timely. Recognizes and communicates ethical and legal concerns through the established channels of communication. Maintains professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, and professional affiliations. Demonstrates accountability and responsibility by independently completing projects/assignments on time. Maintains confidentiality at all times. Performs other work as requested that is reasonably related to the employee's position, qualifications, and competencies.

Education

Bachelor's Degree Required Master's Degree Business or Healthcare related field Preferred

Experience

5 Years Imaging leadership experience Required Supervisory or Managerial Experience Strongly Preferred Multi Modality (MRI, CT, Nuc Med and Breast) is a Plus

Licenses and Certifications

BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly Required And GMRT - General Medical Radiologic Technologist TMB Upon Hire Required And ARRT - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists Upon Hire Required Or CNMT - Certified Nuclear Medicine Technologist Upon Hire Required And CRA - Certified Radiology Administrator AHRA Upon Hire Preferred

Why Texas Health?

At Texas Health Resources, our mission is “to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve”. As part of the Texas Health family and its 28,000+ employees, we’re one of the largest employers in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Our career growth and professional development opportunities are top-notch and our benefits are equally outstanding. Come be a part of our exceptional team as we improve the health of the people in our communities every day. You belong here. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and recent awards.