• Assigns staff and workload requirements regarding changing priorities in daily operations.
• Interacts and communicates with physicians, support staff, and other health care professionals to facilitate departmental operations.
• Monitors the status of equipment repairs and preventative maintenance, gathers data on equipment malfunction and associated down time, and documents the effects on patient care.
• Disseminates and assures compliance with department and institutional policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Provides practical instruction for students and other health care professionals.
• Evaluates staff, provides counsel, monitors performance, directs orientation, provides guidance, and constructively influences staff morale.
• Gathers data and participates in the department’s quality assurance and improvement plan to achieve a defined level of quality and appropriateness of patient care services.
• Controls inventory, care for, and purchase of supplies respecting areas of responsibility.
• Applies the profession’s code of ethics in all aspects of practice.
• Maintains knowledge of, observes, and enforces the safety measures in Environment of Care.
• Maintains the ability to perform procedures in the discipline for which they supervise to include assessment of patient needs (see attached age-specific addendum).
• Performs other related duties as required.

Standard radiology and office equipment.

Working Environment:

• Standard hospital environment. 
• Some lifting, moving, and positioning of patients and equipment. 
• May be required to work extended shifts, evenings, and weekends.

Other: 

Specific job requirements or physical location of some positions allocated to this classification, may render this position security sensitive, and thereby subject to the provisions of Section 51.215, Texas Education Code. 

Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents in lieu of stated minimums require the prior approval of the Chief Human Resources Officer.