Overview

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds 48 licensed critical care beds 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center the Lauren Small Childrens Center including the areas only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Family Care Center a Level II NICU the Sarvanand Heart and Brain Center with Kern Countys first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality compassionate care since 1956. Click here to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.

Responsibilities

Position Summary:

Operates Single Slice and Multi-slice Computed Tomography (CT) scanner to produce cross-sectional radiographs of patients body for diagnostic purposes by performing the following duties. Safe operation and care of CT equipment and exposure of patients to radiation for diagnostic information. Must be able to provide professional and quality care while following hospital policies procedures and standards. Performs all duties of a CT technologist on a daily basis and provides direct patient care to patients ranging in age from pediatric through geriatric.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

California Diagnostic Radiologic Technology license (CT-RTT) and BLS required. Certified through ARRT in Computed Tomography (Cat Scan) required.Previous CT experience required. Education level necessary to obtain required licensure and certifications.

Preferred Qualifications:

Minimum of two years as a Radiologic Technologist preferred

Special Qualifications:

Ability to read an interpret documents such as safety rules operating and maintenance instructions and procedural manuals. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the hospital. Ability to add subtract multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate ratio and percent and how to draw and interpret a bar graph. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written oral diagram or schedule form.