Baptist Health Louisville is seeking to hire a full time dayshift Nuclear Medicine Team Lead. The Lead will be under the direction of the Section Coordinator, this role oversees the daily flow of patients through the department, coordinates exam assignments, and ensures compliance with all quality control standards and state regulations. Responsibilities include assigning staff to work areas based on patient volume, providing direction on protocols, monitoring technologist performance, balancing workflow across outpatient, inpatient, and emergency populations, and reporting equipment issues. The position also requires strong problem-solving skills to address operational challenges efficiently, improve processes, escalate concerns when appropriate, and keep leadership informed of issues and resolutions. In patient care, duties include verifying patient identity and orders, performing exams according to protocol, ensuring high-quality imaging, monitoring patients during procedures, applying radiation safety standards, and assisting the Radiologist as needed. The role also requires effective use of EPIC and Enterprise Imaging systems to complete and manage studies accurately.
Employment Bonus Eligible for Qualified Candidates
Hours: 1st shift: Monday - Friday 6 am - 2:30 pm, no weekends or call
Candidates must have an associate degree and be a graduate of an accredited Nuclear Medicine Technology program with at least one year of experience (management experience preferred). Required certifications include ARRT and/or NMTCB, KBMIRT (upon hire), BLS, and DOT, with the ability to obtain NMTCB/ARRT, BLS, and DOT within 90 days if not already held.
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Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
