Clinical Coordinator

General Statement of Job

The Clinical Coordinator serves multiple functions within the Department of Radiology and requires classroom, lab and/or clinical teaching.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

ssential Duties:

Essential duties as required by JRCERT

Correlates clinical education with didactic education.

Evaluates students.

Coordinates clinical education and evaluates its effectiveness.

Cooperates with the program director in periodic review and revision of clinical course materials.

Maintains current knowledge of the professional discipline and educational methodologies through continuing professional development.

Maintains current knowledge of program policies, procedures, and student progress.

Assists Director with administrative duties as assigned.

Facilitates student learning through instruction, didactic and clinical mentoring with students.

Manages student clinical records; including approved of time summaries and verification of student competencies.

Participates and provides input on measures that are part of the department assessment plan.

Creates clinical rotation schedules each semester for students and shares with other radiology programs as appropriate

Keeps up with mandatory annual education required by clinical sites, MSSU and JRCERT.

Communicates with the Director frequently regarding clinical and didactic activities (once per week formal meeting and throughout each week).

Provides remedial clinical training to students as needed and requested by the Director.

In cooperation with Director, designs, implements and communicates clinical schedules to clinical sites and students in a timely manner to assure students have equitable access to all clinical rotations.

In cooperation with the Director, remediates problems and comes up with solutions to clinical site issues that arise.

Maintains awareness and input and enforces student compliance with the policies and procedures as prescribed by the MSSU Radiology Policies and Procedures Manual.

Maintains awareness of clinical sites policies and procedures and helps to enforce student compliance.

Maintains awareness of the program mission and goals.

Performs other tasks as requested by the Director or MSSU.

Education, Experience, and Licenses

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in radiology or a related field is required.

Current ARRT registration, CPR certification, two years of full-time experience as an R.T. (R) and one year of experience as an instructor in a JRCERT – approved program required.

Valid Driver’s License and ability to meet the university’s insurance requirements for driving university vehicles.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to portray evidence of professionalism and be diplomatic when working with others.
• Exhibit strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries from all university populations: faculty, staff, administration, parents, students and general population.
• Ability to effectively present information to top Administration, public groups, and/or Board of Governors.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Requires the ability to use computers for data entry, word processing and spreadsheets.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, feel or use a computer keyboard; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and talk or hear (including the use of a telephone). The employee frequently is required to sit, stoop, or crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Requires the ability to hear and speak.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

NOTICE: The above job profile does not include all essential and nonessential duties of this job. All employees with disabilities are encouraged to contact Human Resources to review and discuss the essential and nonessential functions of the job. An employee with a disability can evaluate the job in greater detail to determine if she/he can safely perform the essential function of this job with or without reasonable accommodation.