Radiology Clinical Educator- Full Time

The Clinical Educator provides clinical education to the Radiology department. The individual is responsible for the needs and assessment, planning/development, delivery, coordination, and evaluation of a radiology clinical education program along with onboarding of new hires and being the central contact for our student affiliations. Also acts as in a role to monitor quality improvement to formulate areas of concentration for education.   Travel to off-site locations is necessary.   The Clinical Educator will also rotate in the Radiology schedule as needed

• Conducts periodic needs assessments related to Radiology to establish priorities for educational programs. 4%
• Implements and evaluates orientation programs for Radiology staff. 4%
• Assist in the orientation and precepting of new Radiology staff. 5%
• Provides clinical orientation to evaluate new employee performance and readiness to progress in the orientation process. 10%
• Coordinate and schedules in-services and radiology educational activities for staff
  Develops appropriate learning tools and modules.    4%
• Coordinates clinical experiences for Radiology students.  Works with learning and development to make sure the colleges/universities meet our organizational requirements. 10%
• Develops appropriate learning tools and modules. 4%
• Coordinates clinical experiences for Radiology students.  Works with learning and development to make sure the colleges/universities meet our organizational requirements. 10%
• Works in conjunction with other department Lead Technologists to assist in the development of QA programs in their respective areas. 5%
• Performs the modality specific job description on a routine basis. 47%
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned. 1%
   

Education and/or Experience Required:

• Education: Registered as a Radiologic Technologist by the American Registry of Radiologic Technology; ARRT (R) in good standing.  
• Experience:  2 years of Radiology experience

Education and/or Experience Preferred:

• Education: Multi-modality experience preferred
• Experience: 
  • 5 years of Radiology experience
  • Competent in Microsoft Office

License and/or Certification Required:

• Current State of Connecticut Radiographer License.  
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification within 30 days of date of hire. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Knowledge:

• Job requires independent problem identification, abstract reasoning and adaptability to varied environments and information, and quick decision-making.  A high degree of selective attention, discernment, perception, and/or concentration is necessary.

Skills:

• Job requires legibility, speaking accuracy and logical sentence and paragraph organization.  A working knowledge and familiarity with professional (medical) terms and definitions is required.
• Job requires an ability to comprehend abstractions and to make inferences.  
• Job required a high level of communication skill including expression of abstract/complex ideas, use of negotiation and active listening and an ability to dialogue with multiple parties.
• Job requires familiarity with fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion.
• Job requires the use of critical thinking skills for complex problem solving and requires the ability to review related information to develop and evaluate options and solutions for clinical decision making

Abilities:

• Job requires demonstration of technical expertise. 
• Job requires working knowledge of Microsoft Office.