Job Description
**Job Description**
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Business Unit: Rush Medical Group
Hospital: Rush University Medical Center
Department: Diagnostic Radiology &
Nuclear Medicine
**Work Type:** Full Time (Total FTE between 0.9 and 1.0)
**Shift:** Shift 1
**Work Schedule:** 8 Hr (8:00:00 AM - 4:30:00 PM)
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**Pay Range:** $16.48 - $25.96 per hour
Rush salaries are determined by many factors including, but not limited to, education, job-related experience and skills, as well as internal equity and industry specific market data. The pay range for each role reflects Rush's anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position. Offers may vary depending on the circumstances of each case.
**Summary:**
The Radiology Reading Room Assistant works intimately with the radiologists of the department to ensure smooth operation of the radiology department workflow. Their primary responsibility/goal is to improve the efficiency of the radiologists, while also supporting the needs of referring physicians/clinicians when they interface with the radiology department
**Other information:**
**Required Job Qualifications:**
- High school Diploma
**Preferred Job Qualifications:**
Experience, education, licensure(s), specialized certification(s)
- 0-1 Experience working in healthcare
**Responsibilities:**
Job **Responsibilities:**
1. Operate as a person of first contact for physicians and other clinicians in need of support from the radiologists, ensuring that those in need of help reach the person most optimally able to assist more quickly.
2. Manage all incoming and outcoming calls
3. Assist the radiologists in contacting physicians and other clinicians outside of the reading room, including the delivery of critical results
4. Greet physicians and other clinicians who enter the reading room and direct them to the most appropriate radiologist
5. Assist in uploading and opening outside exams for comparison on an available workstation
6. Clarify orders from referring physicians and other clinicians, as needed/requested
7. Take messages when needed and ensure the loop is closed on requests
8. Help to maintain and curate the best contact information for various services, as well as for Rush and outside hospital clinics
9. Routinely review various Epic Radiology Reading Worklists to ensure timely completion of exams; place help desk tickets in collaboration with the radiologists if studies need to be edited or removed
10. Liaise with IS staff to catalog workstation issues and coordinate with various teams to ensure these issues are addressed in a timely manner
11. Request additional sequences or reconstructions from radiology technologists at the direction of the radiologists, and alert radiologists when the requested sequences/reconstructions are in PACS
12. Manage supplies in the reading room
Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
**Position** Radiology Reading Room Assistant
**Location** US:IL:Chicago
**Req ID** 21959
Job Tags
Hourly pay, Full time, Shift work,
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