Citizens Medical Center is a not-for-profit hospital known for compassionate patient care, clinical expertise, and bringing advanced medical services to the South Texas region since 1956. Today, Citizens is a 338-bed acute care hospital with over 1,000 dedicated employees.

Citizens offers a generous benefit package that includes retirement plans upon hire, and an excellent medical plan with optional insurance plans to choose from.

If you are interested in pursuing a career with an award-winning hospital, welcome home.

Under the direction of the Department Director and Radiologists, directs and coordinates the services of Radiology. Works closely with Radiologists, medical staff, Director of Radiology, Radiology personnel, patients, public, and other hospital personnel.

Job Specific:

• Assists in schedules and maintains appropriate staffing levels in Radiology. (EF)
• Assists Department Director in Performance evaluations of staff in Radiology. (EF)
• Participates in budget and fiscal controls. (EF)
• Measures and maintains quality control in area. (EF)
• Responsible for maintaining Radiologists transcription workflow. (EF)
• Anticipates long term needs for Radiology services. 
• Communicates effectively inter- and intra-departmental relationships.
• Provides educational opportunities for staff.
• Attends seminars and related workshops to keep abreast of developments in techniques and procedures in the field of Radiology.
• Participates in safety management and infection control program.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested. 

Hospital:

• Adheres to organization-wide and other applicable policies and procedures.
• Day-to-day performance complies with the hospital’s Service Excellence Behavioral Expectations.
• Performs within the prescribed limits of the hospital’s Ethics, Compliance and Confidentiality Program guidelines.
• Performs within professional Scope of Practice at all times.

Other Duties As Assigned:

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Required: Graduate of a program of Radiology Technology.

EXPERIENCE

Required:

• Minimum of one-year supervisory experience in Radiology. 
• Must be thoroughly knowledgeable with the general theories and practices of radiologic procedures.

Preferred: Proficiency in more than one discipline of radiography.

SPECIAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Required:

• Integrity . The individual’s words and promises are good; fair, trustworthy and unbiased in action; hold to high standards and truth, conduct, honesty, ethics – and expects it of others.
• Interpersonal Relations . Ability to communicate and relate to people as well as problems; understands the various psychological, emotional and ego needs of individuals at various levels; ability to sympathize; to supervise and set high standards while earning respect and support.
• Intestinal Fortitude . Ability and courage to make tough decisions, to be decisive, to do the unpopular but necessary before the crisis stage is reached – yet at the same time be willing to reverse time-honored practices, one’s previous decisions; courage to be bold, to take a chance, to be unpopular, to be wrong
• Initiative/Innovation . Ability to think beyond the traditional, to see new opportunities, but approaches and ways of doing things; possesses a healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo, to be creative; ability to plan, organize resources, supervise, and control.
• Productivity . Punctual completion of tasks; a quantity component of a qualitative orientation.
• Intensity . Ability to handle a wide variety of problems, both as to scope and magnitude; to bear up under pressure; emotional stamina to meet management responsibility. Ability to see the tough, often long and grinding tasks accomplished; tenacious.
• Judgment . Knows what information he or she needs and how to use it; sharpness and clarity of thought and written and oral expression; creative solutions to difficult problems; flexibility; anticipate the future.
• Individual Confidence . Trust and confidence in one’s own ability to handle the ordinary as well as the new; understanding of one’s own strengths and weaknesses and ability to build on the strengths, or improve on the weaknesses.
• Management Knowledge. Broad base of management skills, tools of job, grasp of technical and general details; ability to know when one doesn’t know enough or even anything about a problem and to take steps to acquire the knowledge.
• Implementation. A concern for seeing to it that plans, policies and programs are carried through on a timely basis – a concern for details, and ability to make things happen.
• Identification. Willingness and ability to identify with the goals and aspirations of the department; to support and represent it with other departments.

LICENSURE / CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Required:

• Current license from ARRT – The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists.
• Current license from TMB – The Texas Medical Board. 
• Current BLS from AHA – The American Heart Association.

COMPANY PROFILE

Citizens Medical Center is a  not-for-profit, community hospital known for compassionate patient care, clinical expertise, and bringing advanced medical services to the South Texas region since 1956. Today, Citizens is a 317-bed acute care hospital with over 1,200 employees . Voted “Best of the Best” hospital in Victoria for 13 consecutive years, Citizens Medical Center is a level III Trauma Center, with a newly renovated 24/7 Emergency Department that includes an onsite medical helicopter. Citizens has a comprehensive Community Cancer Program that includes two linear accelerators and HDR brachytherapy. Citizens is recognized for its outstanding cardiology program which includes a nationally accredited Chest Pain Center and is a Primary Stroke Center. Citizens also includes a comprehensive, accredited Bariatric Surgery program, Birth Center with labor and delivery, an imaging and surgery center, sleep study center, state-of-the-art rehabilitation and fitness center, urology center and daVinci robotics minimally invasive surgery options, a home health agency, and has a long history of providing continuing education for healthcare providers and the community.

Citizens Medical Center is looking for employees who actively demonstrate service excellence by exemplifying our iCare values. If you are someone who displays respect and enthusiasm for patients, visitors, and coworkers while consistently upholding the hospital’s commitment to providing outstanding outcomes, service excellence, and fiscal responsibility, then you could be a good fit for the CMC team!

BENEFIT OFFERINGS

Health

• STD, LTD Disability
• Supplemental Life, AD&D
• Flexible Spending (FSA)
• Employer paid life insurance and short term disability

Retirement/Investment

• 457(b) Deferred Compensation
• Paid Time Off
• Sick leave, Bereavement leave, Jury Duty/Witness Service
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Hospital-paid & administered annual immunizations

Citizens Medical Center is guided by its Mission – “to provide quality medical services at a reasonable cost to the citizens of the region.”

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