Neuro IR / Angio Tech

CHI; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 56,481 - 84,033; Full time

Job summary

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is seeking an Angiography Technician to operate diagnostic angiography equipment, prepare rooms, and deliver pre/post-test patient care. You will document findings, calibrate gear, and ensure infection control standards while maintaining high image quality.

Collaboration with Radiologists and care teams is essential. Responsibilities include performing angiography exams, monitoring equipment, and supporting sterile procedures as needed.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year experience as Radiographer.
• BLS certification required on hire.
• ARRT Radiographer (R) registration required on hire.
• Texas Medical Board Radiographer license on hire.
• Registered Technologist Vascular Interventional Rad or Cardio Interventional Rad within 24 months.

Responsibilities

• Performs angiography exams per department protocol.
• Prepares equipment ensuring operational safety and diagnostic standards.
• Troubleshoots equipment and imaging quality and contacts service when needed.
• Maintains daily equipment and room cleanliness and infection control.
• Completes quality checks and maintains logs and supplies for procedures.
• Demonstrates competency in PACS and performs daily QA.
• Assists with patient testing including routine, urgent, and emergent requests.
• Coordinates with transport, nursing, physicians, and other areas for smooth procedures.
• Provides patient orientation, preparation, and teaching before/during/after tests.
• Reviews physician orders to verify test type and indications.
• Gathers patient history as per protocol.
• Positions patient per protocol and selects optimal presets.
• Ensures patient safety, comfort, and sterile technique.

Education

BLS Certification

ARRT Radiographer (R)

Texas Medical Board Radiographer

Registered Technologist Vascular Interventional Rad

Registered Technologist Cardio Interventional Radiography

Job description

Job Summary And Responsibilities

As our Angiography Tech, you will operate diagnostic equipment and perform a variety of technical angiography procedures. Every day you will provide patient orientation, explain procedures, and deliver pre and post-diagnostic care until test completion. This includes positioning patients, calibrating equipment, and meticulously documenting findings. To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate technical proficiency in angiography, strong attention to detail for equipment operation and documentation, and excellent patient communication skills to ensure comprehensive diagnostic imaging tests.

• Performs angiography exams on patients according to the specific departmental procedure protocols
• Prepares equipment ensuring that equipment is operational, safe and functioning according to diagnostic standards
• Problem‑solves equipment failure and imaging quality and contacts service representative or CES regarding equipment problems
• Ensures that daily equipment and room maintenance are performed during/ after each procedure, and that special precautions and measures are performed to ensure infection control standards
• Completes all quality checks and ensures that equipment logs are maintained; completes all clinical supply inventory, ensuring that each diagnostic room is complete with the necessary supplies required to perform the procedure
• Demonstrates competency in PACS process and performs daily QA process
• Actively participates with patient testing, performing routine, non‑routine, urgent, and emergent patient requests
• Communicates with Patient Transportation, Nursing Units, Physician Offices, and other diagnostic areas to ensure that the patients receive their diagnostic procedures in a smooth, efficient and safe manner
• Ensures that patient orientation, patient preparation and patient teaching is provided prior, during and following the test completion
• Reviews the physician order to verify the type of diagnostic test requested and that the indication for the procedure is consistent
• Provides specific diagnostic test information to the patient ensuring that the patient is aware of the diagnostic test involvement
• Obtains patient history according to specific departmental procedural protocol
• Positions the patient for the examination according to specific departmental protocol
• Selects the specific equipment pre‑sets and modifies the settings to ensure that optimal image is obtained
• Assumes responsibility for the safety, emotional and physical comfort of patients while they are in the technologist's care
• Adheres to hospital guidelines on maintaining sterile fields
• Responsible for monitoring and recording radiation dose levels
• Performs required image post‑processing
• When needed, scrubs in to assist Radiologists in performance of sterile procedures during the interventional test/treatment. Anticipates Radiologist's needs during the procedure by preparing catheters, coils, guides, etc. in anticipation of their use.

Job Requirements

• One (1) experience as a Radiographer
• BLS Certification issued by the American Heart Association, upon hire
• Registered as a Radiographer by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) (R), upon hire
• Licensed as a Medical Radiographer through the Texas Board of Medicine, upon hire and
• Registered Technologist Vascular Interventional Rad, within 24 months or Registered Technologist Cardio Interventional Radiography, within 24 months

Where You'll Work

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 1,045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke’s is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading‑edge patient care, research, and education.

Pay Range

$41.14 - $61.20 /hour