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Nuclear Medicine Technologist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 11 days ago
About the Role
The Nuclear Medicine Technologist works for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Imaging Service with the responsibility for performing routine, specialized, and new radionuclide studies for the diagnosis, treatment, and investigation of pathological disorders.
What You'll Do
- →Performs a wide variety of functional imaging studies of organs/systems.
- →Performs computer acquisition and analysis of data utilizing a variety of computers.
- →Selects and modifies programs to acquire patient studies per protocol.
- →Analyzes all imaging studies, in vitro, and research studies for image quality discerning whether additional images are needed before presenting to staff physician.
- →Be knowledgeable in three-dimensional anatomy.
- →Performs in vivo and in vitro studies using a variety of laboratory manipulations such as dilutions, centrifuging, accurate pipetting, specimen collecting, etc.
- →Uses microscopes, centrifuges, calibrated pipettes, and computer programs to examine, calculate, analyze and report testing results.
- →Recognizes and responds to adverse reactions or side effects from administered pharmaceuticals and radiopharmaceuticals.
- →Prepares imaging, counting, and ancillary equipment for patient use.
- →Calibrates imaging cameras, by means of testing flood uniformity, linearity, spatial resolution with devices such as point sources, radioactive flood field sources, barphantoms, orthogonal hole phantoms, and ECT phantoms.
- →Performs daily calibration of energy settings of gamma cameras.
- →Ascertains the accuracy of dose calibrators, well counters, and uptake units by checking the linearity of unit response with standard calibrated radionuclide sources.
- →Routinely checks the operational status of complex ancillary equipment such as cardiac treadmills, microhematocrit units, GM counters, centrifuges, automated film processors, transparency film duplication devices, and radioactive gas traps.
- →Radiation Safety Procedures: In the absence of the Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) and supervisor, performs all specifications of the station's radiation safety program including receipt and monitoring of radioactive shipments, conducts and records results of all necessary radiation surveys using wipe testing, FM counters and rad meters.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 00610dfc-48b6-4f12-9fb5-487cb81f7484
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