Radiologic Information Systems Specialist (PACS)

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is located at Evans Army Community Hospital in Fort Carson, Colorado.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement Eligible People with Disabilities, Schedule A Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized experience: One year of specialized experience which demonstrates experience in the daily operations of radiology systems and equipment such as Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS); providing training on radiology systems and other digital imaging equipment; and analyzing data and providing reports on radiology systems.

This definition of experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

OR Successfully completed a Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work of the position.

(Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) OR Specialized experience as described in A, but less than one year; and I have at least two years of graduate education as described in B, but less than the required three years.

I have computed the percentage of the requirements that I meet, and the total is at least 100% (To compute the percentage, divide your total months of qualifying experience by 12.

Then, divide your semester hours of graduate education beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify.). (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) OR Experience as described in A AND the education described in B.

(Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09).

Major Duties:

• Responsible for day-to-day functional operation of the Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS) equipment.
• Manage the PACS equipment inventory, network resources, configurations of workstations and the related digital imaging modalities and peripherals.
• Manage all/any application associated with PACS (Peer Review/Dictation System/Terarecon/Radmetrics).
• Schedule network backups and assign resources. Resolve network-related issues.
• Prepare and conduct training classes for subspecialty clinicians on advanced imaging applications such as Ortho-Tools, and Advanced Visualization 3D Imaging.
• Provide reports as needed by reviewing, analyzing, validating, and processing capability request documents for clinical systems that need to integrate into the tele radiology workflow solution.