Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Teaching hospital delivering patient-centered medical care

Clinical Instructor - Interventional Radiology

Diagnostics & Laboratory ProfessionalsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeUnited StatesIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Vocational or technical training in the appropriate modality (Radiography, Sonography, or MRI) is required.
A license from the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists is required.
A Certificate 1 in Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonography is required.
A Certificate 2 in Basic Life Support is required.
Five to eight years of related work experience is required.
New hires must provide Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association within 30 days.
Registration through the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography in the Abdominal and OB/Gyn specialties is required for the applicable modality.
MRI Clinical Instructors must be registered with ARRT, ARMRIT, or CAMRT.
MRI Clinical Instructors must have at least an associate degree in science and post-primary registration in MRI.
MRI Clinical Instructors must have at least five years of MRI experience, including complex angiographic, cardiac, and body imaging, and expertise with 3D reconstructions.
MRI Clinical Instructors must demonstrate technical competency and sustained excellence in MRI knowledge, and knowledge of new advances in the field.
Experience with computer systems, including web-based applications and some Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access, is required.
Ability to make decisions guided by precedents, policies, and objectives, including recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
Ability to address varied problems requiring analysis or interpretation using observation, knowledge, and skills based on general precedents.
Ability to set goals and determine how to accomplish defined results within guidelines, under broad guidance from a manager or director.
Ability to summarize and communicate moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families, and external customers.
Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices, and policies and apply them in complex situations.
Ability to lead small projects or work groups, create a collaborative and respectful team environment, and improve workflows.
Ability to provide staff training and customer service meeting unit standards, and resolve service issues in a timely and respectful manner.
Employees must be competent to provide patient care to neonatal, young adult, middle-aged, and elderly age groups.
Work requires close attention to detail; intermittent breaks do not compromise task completion.
Work varies daily and requires adaptability, independent judgment, and managing priorities.
The role requires close work, color vision/perception, visual clarity at near and far distances, conversation, equipment monitoring, telephone use, and working amid background noise.
The role requires medium physical work, including exerting up to 50 pounds occasionally and up to 20 pounds frequently, and standing or moving for most of the shift.
The role requires endurance for up to five to six hours without a break, frequent sitting, and keyboard use; occasional duties include walking, standing, bending, twisting, grasping, fine manipulation, pushing, pulling, reaching, and lifting or carrying items.
The role may require repositioning patients weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance or up to 250 pounds with assistance, and pushing a wheelchair or wheeled bed with a patient weighing up to 250 pounds with assistance.
Staff must be vaccinated against influenza as a condition of employment.

Responsibilities

Supervise student interns participating in clinical programs, schedule student rotations, and evaluate clinical performance through objective performance evaluations.
Assist modality managers, the radiology director, and human resources with planning and implementing technologist retention and recruitment programs.
Provide and coordinate educational activities for staff and document continuing education.
May supervise and provide CPR training and/or fit testing for radiology staff.
Orient new technologist hires to the department.
Monitor, follow up on, and complete the departmental onboarding checklist, and develop improvement plans for new hires as needed.
Perform diagnostic and technical exams on inpatients and outpatients in a Level I trauma setting, including portable, fluoroscopy, and operating-room exams, while supervising technical staff.
Supervise staff using policies, practices, and professional standards to guide their work.
Participate in process-improvement projects by assisting the manager with targeting goals and implementing action plans.
Assist in formulating educational, retention, and recruitment programs.
Perform high-level disinfection of ultrasound intracavitary transducers using systems such as the Trophon EPR, and complete annual refresher training after initial training.

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

$20,000 Sign-On Bonus!

The Clinical Instructor is responsible for supervising, instructing and evaluating clinical performance of student interns and newly hired technologists. Responsibilities include record keeping to adhere to the objective of the accredited education program within the guidelines set up by the Joint Review Committee and administer through the schools. The CI also assists with planning, implementing various technologist retention and recruitment programs with modality managers, radiology director and human resources. This position meets the scope of practice as defined by the ASRT practice standard guidelines.

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Supervises student interns participating in the clinical program(s). Schedules student rotations, evaluates clinical performance developing objective performance evaluations. (essential)

2. Assists with planning, implementing various technologist retention and recruitment programs with modality managers, radiology director and human resources. (essential)

3. Provides and coordinates educational activities for staff and documentation of continuing education. May supervise and provide CPR training and/or Fit testing for Radiology Staff. (essential)

4. In addition, orients new technologist hires to the department, setting them up for long and successful tenures.

5. Monitors, follows up and completes the departmental on-boarding checklist to ensure new hires are on track during the orientation process. Develops improvement plans as necessary for individual new hires as necessary.

6.Able to perform a variety of diagnostic/technical exams on both in-patients and out-patients in a Level I trauma setting including: portables, fluoroscopy and OR exams as well as supervising technical staff. (essential)

7. Provides supervision of staff using policies, practices and professional standards to guide work. (essential)

8. Participates in process improvement projects, assisting the manager with targeting goals and implementing action plans. (essential)

8. Demonstrates strong communication (oral and written) skills and analytical skills. Assists with formulating a comprehensive educational, retention and recruitment programs. (essential)

9. Performs high level disinfection of Ultrasound intracavitary transducers in systems such as the Trophon EPR system. Appropriate HLD of Ultrasound transducers is necessary for patient protection and infection control. Employees are trained initially and then an annual refresher is completed. (essential)

Required Qualifications:

1. Vocational or Technical training in in the appropriate modality (Radiography, Sonography, MRI) required.

2. License American Registry of Rad Tech required., and Certificate 1 Reg Diagnostic Med Sonographer required., and Certificate 2 Basic Life Support required.

3. 5-8 years related work experience required.

4. New hires will have 30 days to provide BLS certification. Certification has to be with the American Heart Association (AHA).

5. Registration through the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers in the Abdominal and OB/Gyn Specialties required. Vocational or Technical training in US - ARDMS Registry in Abdomen and OB/Gyn Specialties required. MRI Clinical Instructor requires ARRT, ARMRIT, or

CAMRT registered. Minimum of an associate degree in science (bachelor's preferred) and post-primary registration in MRI.

6. MRI Clinical Instructor: Minimum of five years of MRI experience including complex angiographic, cardiac and body imaging and expertise with 3D reconstructions. Demonstrates superior technical competency and sustained excellence in MRI knowledge and has knowledge of new advances in the field.

7. Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.

Competencies:

Decision Making:Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.

Problem Solving:Ability to address problems that are varied, requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge and skills based on general precedents.

Independence of Action:Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.

Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.

Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.

Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.

Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.

Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.

Age based Competencies:Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Neonatal:Birth to 6 months, Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 - over.

Social/Environmental Requirements:

1. Work requires close attention to task for work to be accurately completed. Intermittent breaks during the work day do not compromise the work.

2. Work is varied every day and the employee needs to be adaptable to respond to these changes and use independent judgment and manage priorities.

3. Potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions

Daily: Radiation-X radiation, Protective equipment required(Respirator,earplugs,mask,gloves,eyewear etc), Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or airborne pathogens, Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or bloodborne pathogens.
Several times a week: Exposure to dust,gas,fumes,steam,chemicals.

4. Health Care Status: HCW1: Regular, day-to-day contact; both face-to-face and hands-on (having close contact within three feet for at least five minutes). Examples: physicians, clinical nurses, phlebotomist, medical assistants, PFT tech, and x-ray tech.-Health Care Worker Status may vary by department

Sensory Requirements:

Close work (paperwork, visual examination), Color vision/perception, Visual monotony, Visual clarity > 20 feet, Visual clarity <3 feet, Conversation, Monitoring Equipment, Telephone, Background Noise.

Physical Requirements:

Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift.

This job requires constant Endurance-working up to 5-6 hours without a break,frequent sitting, Keyboard use.There may be occasional walking, standing, bending neck, bending waist, twisting neck, twisting waist, Power Grasping using both hands, Fine Manipulation using both hands, Pushing/Pulling using both hands, Reaching-above shoulder height, Reaching-below shoulder height, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 10 lbs, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 25 lbs, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 250 pounds with assistance, Pushing items weighing up to 10 lbs, Pushing items weighing up to 25 lbs, Pushing items weighing up to or more than 100 lbs, Push a wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient weighing up to 250 pounds, with assistance.

Pay Range:

$40.79 - $80.27

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

About the Company

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Teaching hospital delivering patient-centered medical care

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) serves as a teaching hospital in Boston affiliated with Harvard Medical School, offering a wide range of medical services across inpatient, emergency, outpatient, and urgent care. Its care model centers on delivering high-quality medical treatment to patients, supported by patient access initiatives like OpenNotes, which lets patients view clinicians’ notes online to improve understanding and engagement in their care. The hospital also supports education and research through its affiliation with Harvard, attracting funding for studies and training programs. BIDMC differentiates itself through its patient-centered approach, active patient engagement tools, and a broad network of urgent care centers and outpatient services that extend access to healthcare. The goal is to provide comprehensive, accessible, evidence-based medical care while advancing medical education and research.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Grant
Total funding: $5.4M
Headquarters: Boston, MA
Founded: 1996

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