Optum Radiologic Technologist – Orthopedic Practice

Job Category: Health care professional
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: United States
Salary: $23.22 to $45.43 per hour
Company Name: Optum

Company Overview

Optum is a health services and innovation company on a mission to help people live healthier lives and to help make the health system work better for everyone. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is powering modern health care by connecting and serving the whole health system across 150 countries. We combine cutting-edge technology, the world’s largest health care database and vast expertise to improve health care delivery, quality and efficiency. We are revolutionizing health care that serves more than 100,000 physicians, practices and other health care facilities, as well as 127 million individual consumers. How we power modern health: – Data and analytics – Health care delivery – Health care operations – Pharmacy care services – Population health management – Advisory services Simpler health plans, better experience, healthier lives. Our Values: Integrity – Honor commitments. Never compromise ethics. Compassion – Walk in the shoes of people we serve and those with whom we work. Relationships – Build trust through collaboration. Innovation – Invent the future, learn from the past. Performance – Demonstrate excellence in everything we do.
At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. Here, you’ll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and at home. Experience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country. Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Optum Tri-State brings patients local care, backed by national expertise. As a premier provider of health care services, Optum Tri-State offers services including primary care, urgent care, and a diverse range of specialty care, outpatient surgery, and imaging. Drawing on the knowledge of leading doctors and healthcare experts, Optum helps 1.6 million patients across 630 locations access high-quality, affordable healthcare within their community.

In addition to providing the highest quality of care, Optum Tri-State offers its patients the best hours of operation of any private practice in the country. Patients have around-the-clock access to a health-care team and have the benefit of same day and walk in appointments. As an advocate for prenatal health and education, Optum Tri-State offers prenatal classes every weekend free of charge. Optum Tri-State believes in giving back to their community and the patients they serve through health fairs, charitable giving/foundation, and free medical education.

Schedule: Mon – Friday 8am to 4:30pm – No Weekends

Cover at nearby practices Belleville, Springfield , Edison and nearby practices as needed

Primary Responsibilities

  • Prepares and positions patients for diagnostic imaging procedures
  • Explains procedures and process to patients
  • Moves imaging equipment into the specified position; determines exposure factors on the basis of height, weight, the portion of the body involved, and the degree of penetration required; and adjusts equipment controls to set exposure factors and produce images of proper detail, density, and accuracy
  • Practices radiation protection techniques to minimize radiation to patients and staff
  • Performs specialized and routine diagnostic radiology procedures
  • Processes images and reviews them for proper identification and quality control
  • Prepares images for reading by the radiologist or requesting physician
  • Performs routine maintenance, diagnoses malfunctions, and makes minor repairs on radiologic equipment, arranging for repairs as needed

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications

  • High School diploma/GED
  • License to practice Diagnostic Radiology in the state of New Jersey
  • American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) certification

Preferred Qualifications

  • 1+ years of experience working as a Radiologic Technologist
  • Experience with Epic EMR software
  • Orthopedic experience
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