Job Posting: Lead Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Summary

The Radiology Department is currently seeking a Lead Nuclear Medicine Technologist to join their team. In this role you will provide technical guidance to Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT staff, assist with complex imaging procedures, troubleshoot technical and operational issues, and promote quality and safety practices. If you are ready to take on a leadership role in a dynamic facility with a powerful mission, please consider joining the Clinical Center at NIH today.

Duties

As a Lead Nuclear Medicine Technologist, your typical work assignments may include: Distributing and balancing the workload among employees in accordance with established work flow or job specialization, assuring timely accomplishment of the assigned workload, and assuring that each employee has enough work to keep busy. Maintaining a current knowledge and answering questions of other employees on procedures, policies, directives, etc. and obtaining needed information or decisions from the supervisor on problems that come up. Performs advanced Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT imaging procedures using a wide variety of gamma and positron-emitting radiopharmaceuticals to study organ perfusion, metabolism, receptor function, tumor distribution, etc., in Clinical Center patients. Assuring the patients' safety and comfort while the patient is undergoing a study. Verifying that patient identity and dose reconciliation according to established procedures. Operating computer software on multiple Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT scanner/computer systems including image acquisition, for ancillary Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT equipment, including probe, dose calibrator, infusion pumps, blood glucose analyzer balances, and scales.

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