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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
M-F, 8-5PM
Posted Date
10/31/2024
Salary Range: $67.15 - 158.91 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
indefinite
Job #
19822

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Chief Technologist, PET/CT and PET/MRI in Nuclear Medicine oversees the operations of diagnostic and therapeutic services using radioactive materials across multiple UCLA Health locations, including the Westwood and Santa Monica campuses. This role ensures excellent service quality, compliance with regulations, and adherence to clinic protocols. Key responsibilities include directing nuclear medicine technologists, coordinating with physicians and health physicists, overseeing data for quality improvement, managing cyclotron production schedules for clinical research, and implementing new imaging technologies. Reporting to the Medical Director and Administrative Manager, the Chief Tech is central to maintaining efficient and compliant clinical operations.

Salary Range: $67.15-158.51 per hour 

Job Qualifications

  • Ability to promote and use interpersonal skills to provide excellent customer service. Working knowledge of research-oriented patient care systems
  • Working knowledge of University policies and procedures to appropriately manage accounting systems, cashiering, risk management and personnel
  • Demonstrates a leadership style that builds and maintains a climate of trust and inspires commitment from others to achieve organizational goals
  • Experience managing team functions, including Human Resources oversight
  • Supervisory and Management experience preferred
  • CNMT required
  • NMTCB, ARRT or CRT highly preferred
  • BLS required 
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in Nuclear Medicine. Minimum of 5 years experience in PETCT.
  • Must be willing to travel to multiple clinic sites including Santa Monica, Encino, Santa Clarita and Calabasas. 

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.