Modality Supervisor - Nuclear Medicine Diagnostic Imaging - Multiple Sites

Working under the direction of the Manager, Diagnostic Imaging, the Diagnostic Imaging Modality Supervisor, is an important member of the Diagnostic Imaging leadership team. Sound judgment and strong leadership abilities will enable the Diagnostic Imaging Modality Supervisor to lead and develop a team focused on delivering excellent patient care. The incumbent will support the manager in overseeing all aspects of modality operations, including: quality management, staff productivity and human resource management, resolving issues in order to ensure effective and efficient operations. The successful candidate will develop and motivate a cohesive team and will identify and support educational strategies to enhance staff knowledge with respect to professional practice and patient-centered care. This individual is required to collaborate effectively with all stakeholders and clinical partners across all hospital sites.

Accountabilities:

• Manages, organizes, assigns and distributes workload among staff to ensure the department operates in a manner that is safe, efficient and responsive to volumes and outcomes
• Demonstrates effective decision making to enable adequate staffing and scheduling to handle daily workload requirements based on annual budgeted/funded volumes, financial, departmental goals, etc.
• Ensures staff compliance with appropriate licensing bodies
• Ensures safe-working practices for department and supports staff in completing annual mandatory eLearning
• Establishes and monitors performance expectations, takes appropriate action in collaboration with manager, and human resources where appropriate, when expectations are not met and/or exceeded
• Coaches and mentors staff to foster a positive atmosphere that supports team building, collaboration and shared learning
• Demonstrates an understanding of different levels of expertise (novice to expert) amongst staff and provides support accordingly
• Acts as a resource to team members and ensures information is communicated and circulated to team members and management
• Ensures technologists understand and comply with new policies, procedures and performance standards
• Performs administrative responsibilities to improve processes/procedures and ensure an efficient and effective working environment
• Contributes to the development, implementation and maintenance of new/revised policies, procedures, protocols and performance standards
• Undertakes planning activities that will advance the goals and objectives of the modality
• Drives best practice standards for the modality; including staffing models, equipment utilization, and safety, based on evidence
• Documents problems and incidents when policies and procedures have not been observed and takes appropriate action(s) in collaboration with manager, as required
• Builds and maintains professional relationships with key resource people, professionals, suppliers, managers and patients
• Contributes to performance improvement initiatives to facilitate changes in imaging practice and patient-centered care delivery
• Maintains current knowledge of picture archiving and communication system to view, manipulate and archive digital medical images of data in final image formation
• Anticipates impacts of change on quality assurance procedures and initiates timely adaptations to ensure quality control is maintained
• Observes, understands and ensures staff and departmental compliance with hospital and departmental policies and procedures and with government legislation
• Adheres to hospital and departmental mission and value statements
• Complies with and ensures compliance with the Regulated Health Professions Act, the Medical Radiation Technology Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act and other relevant government guidelines, regulations and legislation
• Complies with and ensures compliance with radiation safety guidelines and/or regulations
• Complies with and ensures compliance with and understanding of all relevant clinical and modality policies