Job Description

Schedule: PRN (as needed) | Variable shifts with rotating on-call coverage, including weekends & holidays.

Your experience matters

Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As an Imaging Assistant, PRN joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier ®. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

More about our team

Our Imaging Assistants support technologists by preparing and positioning patients, assisting with transfers, maintaining patient comfort and safety, and supporting diagnostic imaging procedures. They work with patients of all ages and help ensure efficient, high-quality imaging services under the guidance of technologists and radiologists.

How you’ll contribute

An Imaging Assistant, PRN who excels in this role:

• Assist with daily equipment inspections, warm up procedures and follow Quality Control Program under supervision of a Technologist.
• Assist Radiologist and Technologist setting up contrast; however, will never be responsible for loading or priming the injector.
• Obtain quality images while following radiation safety standards and protocols.
• Assist with positioning and performing exams, but should never hold the detector or patients for Radiation procedures.
• Arrive patients, track exams, scan scripts, and schedule exams in the Radiology Information Systems.
• Assist Radiologist and Technologist in performing modality specific exams.
• Maintain clinical proficiency for all completed competencies and equipment skills.
• Follows safety procedures and guidelines and reports unsafe practices and conditions.
• Assists with, and with documented competency, perform lab collections.
• Consistently and appropriately follows Universal Precautions.
• Operates office equipment as needed. Answers phone in an efficient, courteous manner.
• Attends and participates in staff meetings.
• Maintains professional skills and provides age-specific care to patients of all ages (neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults and geriatrics).
• Assists in performing first aid, CPR and AED.
• Performs patient transport.

Why join us

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education, 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we’re looking for

Applicants should possess a high school diploma or equivalent. Additional requirements include:

• Current enrollment or graduate of radiography (JRCERT accredited), sonography (CAAHEP accredited), or nuclear medicine technologist program (JRCNMT accredited).
• 6 months clinical experience in inpatient/outpatient setting.
• CPR.

More about Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center

Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center is a 12-bed critical access hospital that has served the rural Meyersdale community for 70 years. The hospital provides 24/7 emergency care as an accredited chest pain center, and offers high-quality, comprehensive outpatient, imaging, diagnostic, and specialty services close to home. Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center also provides primary care services, preventative care, and community education to the Meyersdale community through its Family Health Care Rural Health Clinic.

EEOC Statement

“Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.”

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.