Beth Israel Lahey Health·Winchester, Massachusetts
Trainees perform CT examinations under supervision while adhering to ACR imaging and safety standards. Responsibilities include patient escorting, executing exam protocols, and maintaining medical imaging equipment and records.
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Contributes to the Hospital's mission to care, heal and to excel in seNice to our community while training in performing Computerized Tomography (CT) examinations under supervision while meeting ACR imaging standards and maintaining safety standards using state-of the-alt CT scanners, power injectors, PACS, and other related medical imaging equipment. This training CT technologist position will have an impact on quality, safety and patient experience.
Consistent with the PROMISE principles and inherent in a hospital environment, employees must be flexible in meeting patients' and the Hospital's needs. While the list below describes the primary functions of this job, all employees at Winchester Hospital need to recognize that an essential element of their job is the ability to respond to unanticipated and/or changing situations. This may result in assuming responsibilities or tasks which are not on this list.
As part of the Radiology team and under the direct supewisionof the CT Supervisor or licensed CT Technologist, the Computerized Tomography Technologist Trainee:
Greets, escorts, assesses, educates and identifies patients making the patients feel welcomed and comfortable. Training will include howto perform safety and quality checks, including verifying exam orders.
Training to include completing CT examinations following established exam protocols-established by CT Radiologist.
Training involving entering examinations correctly, ensuring accurate and informative documentation and appropriate charges are entered.
Training to include how to electronically send and store images and data appropriately in PACS.
Training involving departmental procedures for maintaining records and logs to monitor quality and safety in accordance with departmental policies.
Training involving equipment cleaning and maintaining a safe work environment presenting the best possible impression of facilities and fostering our culture of safety.
Training to become familiar with supply and equipment issues to ensure optimum operations, equipment quality and long-term equipment maintenance and life.
Transports and provides ambulatory assistance to patients as necessary.
Training in the education process and how to inform patients and family members throughout the patients' experience.
Communicates effectively with the healthcare team utilizing established handoff procedures. Gives and accepts respectful feedback to enhance teamwork and the clinical training experience.
Training to help minimizes preventable harm events and consistently executes the infection control protocols. Incorporates the Culture of Safety tools in daily practice, adhering to quality and safety guidelines and communicating near-miss or potential risks.
For safety and quality reasons, must be able to read, write and communicate effectively in English with patients, visitors and fellow members of the hospital team
Life support certification required: Basic Life support
Population specific requirements: Neonates, Infants, Children, Adolescents,
Adults, Geriatrics
Required to work Monday-Friday Day Shift under the direct supeNision of a licensed CT Technologist for 40 hours for the 16 week duration of the Clinical Training Program.
Reporting relationships: Reports to CT Supervisor
Not responsible for supervising the work of others
When patients enter Winchester Hospital, they are entrusting us with a responsibility that is otherwise normally their own - the responsibility for their health, well-being, and often, their lives. To honor that trust, all Winchester Hospital employees are expected to demonstrate the PROMISE behaviors of Winchester Hospital in every encounter with patients, coworkers, and the community. PROMISE is an acronym for the following:
Ownership: Maintaining a Positive Attitude
Initiative: Safety and Quality
Empathy: All Winchester Hospital employees are expected to exemplify the PROMISE behaviors
Winchester Hospital maintains a Compliance Program to ensure that employees comply with all laws, regulations and Joint Commission and other licensure and accreditation standards that apply to our business. The Code of Business Conduct is a vital part of the Compliance
Program. Employees must be familiar with the Compliance Program and Code of Business Conduct and must comply with their requirements, and the requirements of any other laws and regulations, policies and procedures affecting the performance of their job. If applicable, employees are expected to comply with standards of conduct outlined by the oversight organization(s) of their profession.
Physical and mental requirements/Conditions
The employee needs to have the physical and mental abilities to perform the duties of the position listed above using the WE CARE behaviors.
It is anticipated that the employee will have contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials while performing their job duties.
Requires working in an area in which there is exposure to radiation.
It is anticipated that the employee will have contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials while performing their job duties.
Requires working in an area in which there is exposure to radiation.
The list below is intended to describe the physical and sensory ability requirements of the position; however those requirements may vary, sometimes considerably, based on meeting patient and operational needs.
$44.65 - $66.35
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.
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Market context
In Massachusetts, CT tech trainee openings often reflect steady demand in hospitals and imaging centers, especially where cross-trained radiology staff are needed. These roles are competitive because employers typically want an accredited Radiologic Technology background, ARRT registration, a Massachusetts Radiology license, and current Basic Life Support certification. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits on this platform to save time, then confirm your credentials match before applying.