Director of Diagnostic Imaging

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

About the role

The Director of Imaging leads the medical imaging department by overseeing operations, staff, equipment, and services, ensuring high quality patient care, regulatory compliance and stakeholder satisfaction.

Key responsibilities

• Developing and implementing policies
• Managing budgets and staff
• Ensuring safety protocols are met
• Making recommendations on employee hires, disciplinary actions, terminations, and similar actions
• Leading and managing daily operations of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Vascular, MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Mammography, and Nuclear Medicine
• Coordinating schedules and allocation of staff and equipment to ensure conformance with specified objectives and policies
• Developing, maintaining, and tracking workflows to optimize patient throughput and equipment utilization across modalities
• Preparing reports and identifying trends, opportunities, and recommendations for addressing issues
• Developing and managing budgets for areas of leadership oversight
• Ensuring all professional and administrative policies and procedures are adhered to
• Ensuring ongoing compliance with regulatory agencies such as DNV, DPH, etc. as well as with all health and safety regulations and licensing requirements
• Ensuring that department complies with hospital established policies, quality assurance programs, safety, and infection control policies and procedures

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of 7 years director level experience strategically leading an imaging department, preferably in a hospital setting
• Considerable knowledge of scheduling workflows, operational procedures, materials, and equipment operation in diagnostic imaging modalities
• Must have current knowledge of evolving technology
• Proven leadership qualities, including maturity, job knowledge, proactive problem solving, process improvement, professionalism, and conflict resolution skills
• Very strong customer service orientation
• Positive attitude with strong ownership and accountability
• Highly self-motivated and change oriented
• Excellent customer service, follow-through and service recovery skills
• Excellent communication skills to include interpersonal, verbal, written and listening
• Outstanding problem-solving and project management skills
• Significant knowledge of imaging modalities including X-RAY, IR, CT, MRI, Mammography and Ultrasound and Vascular Services
• Ability to consistently meet deadlines and hold staff accountable for completion of required tasks
• Ability to effectively build and manage complex budgets

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Ability to mentor and guide others
• Experience developing and implementing policies and procedures
• Awareness of all safety and regulatory requirements
• Ability to educate team members
• Significant knowledge of all imaging modalities

Essential Job Functions

• Leads and manages daily operations of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Vascular, MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Mammography, and Nuclear Medicine, ensuring efficient, high-quality services to meet patient and physician need
• Captures and analyzes data to identify trends, opportunities, and recommendations for addressing issues
• Prepares reports and identifies trends, opportunities, and recommendations for addressing issues
• Manages activities to ensure financial goals are met
• Prepares and submits monthly budgetary variance reports for multiple cost centers as well as requested statistics on staffing, volume, utilization, and any backlog
• Ensures all professional and administrative policies and procedures are adhered to
• Ensures ongoing compliance with regulatory agencies such as DNV, DPH, etc. as well as with all health and safety regulations and licensing requirements
• Ensures that department complies with hospital established policies, quality assurance programs, safety, and infection control policies and procedures

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Age and Diversity Related Criteria

Consistently treats patients, colleagues, and visitors with dignity and respect, while being sensitive to the differing needs of all age groups, backgrounds, characteristics, and cultures.

Ability to Fulfill Job Expectations

Must have the ability to perform the essential functions of the position, including required work hours, locations, and physical demands, without posing a direct threat to the health and safety of themselves or other individuals in the workplace, and with or without reasonable accommodation.

Physical Demands

Prolonged periods of sitting and standing. Manual dexterity to type and use machinery, use of keyboard for extended periods of time. Ability to lift, push and pull up to 25 pounds.

Pay Range

$118,292.77-$185,597.27