Clinical Manager - Breast Imaging

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Reports to the Technical Director, Breast Imaging

Work Location - BIDMC Shapiro Breast Imaging Center. Fast paced full-service center of excellence. Offering screening, Diagnostic Mammography, Diagnostic Breast Ultrasound, Mammo and Ultrasound guided minimally invasive procedures.

Works exclusively at this location.

Essential Responsibilities to include but not limited to:

Follows departmental guidelines and protocols in performance of all procedures in Mammography

Possess strong QC skill set, understanding of MQSA, STATE and ACR regulatory guidelines for equipment and personnel. Is able to work collaboratively with OC team.

Team player.

Serves as a mentor and resource to the team in problem solving.

Provides patient centered care when interacting with our internal and external customers.

Possess strong clinical/ image quality skills to perform mammography exams as needed for department efficiency.

Detail orientated.

In collaboration with Technical Director works on department budget, Performance reviews, workflow efficiency projects.

Actively participated in technical staff meetings.

Works collaboratively with Ultrasound lead technologist.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Represents the division on all technical leadership initiatives; including maintaining relationships with other managers to develop and coordinate department wide initiatives, acts as the primary representative of the division when interfacing with hospital department, physicians and nursing.
• Influences and motivates staff behaviors in accordance with department policies and code of conduct, informs, trains and communicates to ensure team morale and effectiveness.
• Coordinates and maintains inventory of supplies and equipment used in their division. Ensure utilization is appropriate for volume of procedures, monitors procedure mix and changes in technique, altering inventory levels if necessary
• Maintains, updates and revises divisions policy and procedure manual.
• Participates in department leadership team by ensuring technical excellence, high quality and safety in the care of patients, efficiency of service and high quality QA/QI program.
• Has the authority to direct and support employees daily work activities. Has the direct responsibility to undertake the following employment actions: hiring, termination, corrective action and performance reviews. Direct Reports: More than 7 Indirect Reports: 51-100
• Assists in planning, monitoring and/or managing budget in functional area of department.

Required Qualifications:

• Previous leadership experience and a minimum of 3 years of experience as a technologist or Sonographer. Associate's degree preferred.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills, conflict management, problem solving, priority setting, delegation, process and system management and negotiation skills.
• License, certification, and or registry in their discipline of Radiology
• New hires will have 30 days to provide BLS certification. Certification has to be with the American Heart Association (AHA).
• Advanced technical computer skills as required for technical support specific to functional area and related systems.

Competencies:

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions with significant, broad implications for the management and operations of a major department or multiple departments. Participates in decisions on overall strategy and direction of the organization.

Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are broad, complex and abstract, often involving Medical Center-wide issues and requiring substantial creativity, resourcefulness, staff engagement, Lean diagnostic techniques, negotiation and diplomacy to develop solutions.

Independence of Action: Ability to set direction and vision for major departments or multiple departments. Establishes priorities, develops policies and allocates resources.

Written Communications: Ability to communicate complex information in English effectively in writing to all levels of staff, management and external customers across functional areas.

Oral Communications: Ability to verbally communicate complex concepts in English and address sensitive situations, resolve conflicts, negotiate, motivate and persuade others.

Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate broad and comprehensive knowledge of theories, concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex and/or unprecedented situations across multiple functional areas.

Team Work: Ability to lead collaborative teams for larger projects or groups both internal and external to the Medical Center and across functional areas. Results have implications for the management and operations of multiple areas of the organization.

Customer Service: Ability to lead operational initiatives to meet or exceed customer service standards and expectations in assigned unit(s) and/or across multiple areas in a timely and respectful manner.

Age based Competencies:
Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Neonatal:Birth to 6 months, Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 -.
Physical Nature of the Job:
Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary, but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move through out the hospital campus

Pay Range:

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. 

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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