Senior Nuclear Medicine Technologist/PET Scanning-Nuclear Medicine
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - SSMC
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Abu Dhabi
Contract type: Full time
JOB DESCRIPTION
The role is responsible for independently conducting all operations related to nuclear medicine. The role is also responsible to monitor and/or supervise junior employees and make sure that all standards of operational procedures are being followed.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Experience :-
Required:
The role is responsible for independently conducting all operations related to nuclear medicine. The role is also responsible to monitor and/or supervise junior employees and make sure that all standards of operational procedures are being followed.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversees and tracks shortages of materials, orders and approves replenishments when necessary
- Prepares radiopharmaceuticals for use in patient studies. Performs quality control checks of pharmaceuticals
- Performs calibration, chemical purity checks and percentage yields to ensure the integrity of solutions to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure
- Assists and follows physician's orders to determine appropriate radiopharmaceutical and dosage.
- Facilitates and presents program image recording system and forwards recorded images in the proper format to physicians
- Provides aseptic dispensing of precise radiopharmaceutical patient doses, and is competent in the intravenous, oral and inhalation administration of radiopharmaceuticals and radio-labeled blood products to patients
- Manages to record and is able to recognize potential risks and contraindications to radiopharmaceutical administrations, and should be able to assist patients.
- Performs quality assurance checks on dose calibrator equipment used to assay radiopharmaceutical doses
- Ensures effective cleaning of the sterile isolator prior to use; performs radionuclide and chemical purity checks; uses settle plates to monitor airborne microbial contamination, and monitors for radiation contamination
- Conducts daily or periodic checks and calibration of imaging and non-imaging equipment, and radiation contamination monitoring.
- Ensures physical accuracy and hand-eye coordination while performing venopuncture on and insertion of cannulae into adult patients, taking blood samples as required for Nuclear Medicine, and other, tests
- Ensures patients receive the highest standard of medical care.
- Updates patient examination history file, recording unusual conditions and document all records
Experience :-
Required:
- NLT 4 years clinical experience in Nuclear Medicine; 2 of them should have been at a senior supervisory or management level.
- UAE National: NLT 2 years relevant experience in an acute care hospital
- Knowledge of computer science will be expected.
- Knowledge of nuclear hematology will be advantageous.
- N.A.
- Bachelor’s degree or Diploma or its equivalent from an accredited institution in Nuclear Medicine Imaging (minimum three (3) years course duration) One (1) year of experience post qualification in the Nuclear Medicine field
- Associate degree (minimum two (2) years course duration) from an accredited program in Nuclear Medicine
- And Valid Registration or Certification
- Two (2) years of experience post qualification in the Nuclear Medicine field
- Bachelor/Diploma/Associate degree in a Radiography /Radiology Technology or Medical Imaging program And Diploma/Master of minimum one (1) year in Nuclear Medicine Two (2) years of experience post qualification in the Nuclear Medicine field
- AND Valid Registration or Certification
- Bachelor/Diploma/Associate degree in a Radiography /Radiology Technology or Medical Imaging program And Diploma/Master of minimum one (1) year in Nuclear Medicine
- Two (2) years of experience post qualification in the Nuclear Medicine field
- Master's in Nuclear Medicine or relevant clinical Msc in related field. (will reduce 1 year from the required years of experience)
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