X-Ray File Clerk
Englewood-CO-80110-United States
Position will Close 08/15/2025
Hours for the Position - Monday through Friday; 5:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Position Summary:
Maintains outside films and reports for inpatients and outpatients. Prepares films for physician review when necessary.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
• Education: High school graduate or equivalent
• Experience: Familiarity with medical terminology
• Skills & Abilities: Excellent organization and customer service skills. Ability to successfully handle multiple priorities and prioritize and schedule accordingly while meeting established deadlines. Must be able to successfully and effectively communicate with a variety of personnel. The ability to determine or interpret work procedures for a group of workers, assigning specific duties to them, maintaining harmonious relations among them and promoting efficiency. Able to maintain a high degree of accuracy, dependability, and strong attention to detail both mechanically and technically. Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the position. General knowledge of extracting information from database systems preferred. Possess above-average problem-solving skills, judgment, and flexibility.
Essential Functions:
- Supports Patients' Rights and Upholds the Ethics of the Organization.
- Treats patients/families with dignity and respect and incorporates them as members of their care team.
- Acts to uphold the rights and responsibilities of patients/families.
- Maintains privacy/confidentiality of patient and staff information.
- Demonstrates knowledge of proper channels for addressing ethical issues.
- Adapts communication skills to the specific needs of the adolescent, adult and geriatric patient.
- Promotes educational activities for patients and professionally.
- Maintains knowledge of job duties and current treatment trends through attending department meetings and educational in-services.
- Takes responsibility for obtaining information from in-service and/or staff meetings when unable to attend.
- Completes all mandatory education (10 hours).
- Take responsibility for your own professional growth and development to maintain competency and currency in practice.
- Completes the designated competency packet
- Assists with the orientation of new staff and functions as a preceptor and mentor.
- Participates in annual peer review of coworkers.
- Successfully complete self-learning assignments in a timely manner.
- Demonstrates an ability to work well with others. Initiates and facilitates positive interactions, openness to ideas, flexibility and awareness of non-verbal information. Understands and works effectively in a team environment. Actions display politeness and respect towards others.
- Communicates with various departments in the hospital regarding radiology issues.
- Participates in improving organizational performance.
- Participates in unit performance improvement opportunities.
- Demonstrates an awareness of unit goals and participates in achieving these goals.
- Demonstrates leadership qualities.
- Accepts, gives and invites feedback in a manner appropriate for growth or improvement in job performance. Uses information and feedback to solve problems and to generate suggestions for improvement. Directs concerns to appropriate team members/supervisor in a timely and constructive manner. Describes problems accurately, actively listens, influences positive change and maintains others' credibility.
- Prioritizes activities and plans for effective and efficient use of time and available resources in meeting patient and staff needs.
- Follows and is conscientious of attendance and timeliness according to hospital policy and departmental guidelines.
- Deals constructively with changes in procedures, process, responsibilities and assignments.
- Effectively utilize support personnel.
- Asks for help when needed and offers assistance to others frequently.
- Use good judgment for a safe and pleasant work environment.
- Use proper body mechanics and practices back and upper extremity safety guidelines during all activities.
- Requisitions supplies; maintains neat and orderly file room and storage area.
- Monitors equipment and maintenance and other projects as assigned.
- Is knowledgeable about the importance of incident reporting and how to complete them correctly.
- Completes yearly competencies.
- Utilizes sharps injury prevention practices
- Is knowledgeable about emergency procedures and how to enact them when needed.
- Understands Universal Precautions and practices them at all times.
- Is current in the use of PACS system and can retrieve any imaging study requested for review by medical staff or Nurse Practitioner.
- Maintains all medical imaging files for inpatient and active outpatients.
- Can make CD of any film requested by patients or staff.
- Runs x-ray rounds efficiently.
- Distributes/files x-ray reports.
- Maintains records for all films out on loan to other facilities or to Craig.
- Communicates to HIM all films out on loan longer than planned.
- Maintains x-ray storage room neatly and organized.
- All personnel will use hand hygiene upon entering and leaving a patient's room; before and after individual patient care procedures, before and after group patient activity, after hands are contaminated with any body fluids, secretions, or excretions.
- All Craig staff will take responsibility to inform patients, family, and visitors of the importance of hand hygiene in the healthcare and community environment.
- Other duties as assigned.
Craig Hospital Benefits:
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Benefit Eligible Positions:
At Craig Hospital we offer a wide range of outstanding benefits that allow our employees to tailor a benefits package that meets their individual needs. Planning a family or looking forward to retirement, we have options. Our medical insurance is a self-funded plan administered by Allegiance Benefit Plans with a CIGNA network of providers offering two different comprehensive plans. We offer dental insurance through Delta Dental, and vision insurance through EyeMed. Craig offers Health Care and Dependent Care Spending Accounts. Craig also provides, and pays for both Short Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance plans for every benefit-eligible employee. We offer generous time off benefits to allow you to enjoy your time away from work too! Additionally, we have a 403b Retirement Plan with a generous matching contribution through Empower Retirement that you are eligible for upon hire. Do you want to go back to school? We have Tuition Assistance. Unexpected emergency? We have Employee Assistance Programs. For Craig, we believe in offering best-in-class benefits, and we prioritize benefits to support you.
- $18.65/ Hour - $26.86/ Hour - Based on Years of Experience.
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