Radiographer at Bliss Healthcare

Reports To: Centre Manager

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Explaining procedures to patients and answering questions.
• Preparing equipment for use as needed.
• Preparing examination rooms for patient exams.
• Positioning patients for imaging exams.
• Determine proper voltage, current and exposure time for each radiograph and adjusting x-ray equipment.
• Monitoring patients during exams.
• Documenting information with computers.
• Reporting important information to the physician.
• Ensuring safety of patients during exams.
• Producing diagnostic images of breast tissue.
• Using sound waves to obtain images of organs and tissues in the body.
• Administering targeted doses of radiation to the patient’s body to treat cancer or other diseases.
• Administering trace amounts of radiopharmaceuticals to a patient to obtain functional information about organs, tissues and bone.
• Measuring bone mineral density at a specific anatomical site.
• Any other duties as may be assigned to you by your superiors from time to time.