MRI Technologist - Specialist - Part Time
Texas Children's Hospital
- Location
- Onsite (Katy, TX)
- Employment
- Part-time
- Level
- Mid Level
About the role
Texas Children’s Hospital seeks an MRI Specialist to perform specialized radiographic procedures and ensure patient safety in a fast-paced pediatric setting. The role involves mentoring staff, maintaining equipment, and contributing to quality improvement within a supportive healthcare team.
Skills
Full job details
We are searching for an MRI Specialist-- someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will perform quality routine and specialized radiographic procedures at the request licensed independent practitioner for interpretation by radiologists. As members of the health care team, they must participate in quality improvement processes and continually assess their professional performance. Maintains a safe and hazard free environment. They are responsible for patient care, appropriate documentation, quality control, and quality improvement, and they provide training, education and mentoring to students, technologists, nursing, residents, fellows, staff and others.
Think you have what it takes?
At Texas Children’s Hospital, our mission starts with our people. Guided by our HEART values—Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust—we strive to create a workplace where teammates feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work every day.
Responsibilities
- Broad knowledge of MRI physics and procedures; understanding of MRI principles that are developmentally appropriate for ages 0 – adulthood
- Operation of all required equipment including troubleshooting, when necessary, of the equipment, including automated processors, copying/digitizing film equipment, R.I.S., and PACS
- Basic Life support and medical terminology understanding is required.
- Successful demonstration of the professional fundamental competencies
- Must be articulate, courteous and supportive in dealing with patients, parents, nursing, faculty, administrative and departmental personnel so that excellent customer service and positive guest relations are achieved
- Must honor confidentiality
- Must independently scan patients by following the established protocols
- Must demonstrate excellent verbal and written skills
- Must utilize basic office equipment
- Preferable if able to demonstrate bilingual skills
- The MRI Specialist will be responsible for multiple duties including:
- integrates scientific knowledge; technical skills, patient interaction and compassionate care resulting in diagnostic information, and recognizes patient conditions essential for successful completion of the procedure.
- possess, utilize, maintain, and enhance knowledge of MRI safety and protection for self, patients, and others.
- demonstrate a detailed understanding of human anatomy, physiology, pathology and medical terminology.
- liaison between patients, radiologist and other members of the support team.
- maintain a high degree of accuracy in positioning and exposure technique.
- prepares, administers and documents activities related to mediations in accordance with state regulations and institution policy.
Qualifications
- 3yrs Radiology experience
- Graduate of a formal diagnostic Radiology program required
- MR-ARRT certification from the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists required OR ARMRIT-America Registry of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
- R-AART preferred
- CMRT from the Texas Medical Board preferred
- BLS certification from the American Heart Association preferred