Work Location: West Hills, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
variable days/hours based on operational needs
Posted Date
01/23/2026
Salary Range $70.77 - 78.63 Hourly
Employment Type
6 - Staff: Per Diem
Duration
indefinite
Job #
28371
Join our team as a Per Diem Senior Nuclear Medicine Technologist and contribute your advanced expertise to delivering precise, high quality diagnostic imaging for our West Valley Hospital patients. In this key role, you will operate nuclear medicine equipment with expert proficiency, ensuring safe, accurate, and efficient examinations that support exceptional patient care. Primary duties include:
•Provide per diem coverage during after-hours, weekends, and staff vacations or leaves.
•Conduct patient interviews, communicating clearly and compassionately with patients of all ages to explain procedures, provide reassurance, and promote a positive experience.
•Prepare, perform quality control, calibrate, and administer radiopharmaceutical compounds.
•Handle, prepare, witness, and administer adjunctive medications under direct physician supervision.
•Perform patient imaging and therapeutic procedures, including computer processing and image enhancement.
Salary Range: $70.77 - $78.63/hour
•Current certification as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist by the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board (NMTCB) or the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT).
•Valid California Nuclear Medicine Technology (CNMT) license issued by the Department of Health Services, Radiologic Health Branch.
•At least one year of experience as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist.
•Flexibility to work variable days and hours based on operational needs, including after-hours shifts (potentially up to midnight).
For more than half a century, UCLA Health has provided the best in healthcare and the latest in medical technology to the people of Los Angeles and throughout the world.
Comprised of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA West Valley Medical Center and the UCLA Medical Group with its wide-reaching system of primary-care and specialty-care offices throughout the region, UCLA Health is among the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the world.
Our physicians are world leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of complex illnesses, and our hospitals are among the best in the country. Consistently ranked one of the top ten hospitals in the nation and the best medical center in the western United States by U.S. News & World Report, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is at the cutting edge of biomedical research, and our doctors and scientists are leaders in performing pioneering work across an astounding range of disciplines, from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and cancer treatment, and bringing the latest discoveries to virtually every field of medicine.
