CT Technologist | Emergency and Acute Care Imaging
🌱 Rooted Insights
🌿 Best Fit For: An experienced CT Technologist who works well independently and remains calm, organized, and clinically focused during overnight emergency imaging.
🌿 Why This Role Stands Out: This full time weekend night position offers substantial shift differential opportunities for a technologist who prefers concentrated scheduling and fewer traditional weekday shifts.
🌿 Patient Population: Support emergency, inpatient, and acute care patients with imaging needs ranging from routine studies to time sensitive trauma, stroke, and critical care examinations.
🌿 Recruiter’s Perspective: Overnight CT roles are not for everyone, but for the right technologist, this position offers autonomy, schedule consistency, and enhanced earning potential within a hospital environment.
Position Highlights
Location: Southwest Missouri
Setting: Acute Care Hospital | Emergency and Inpatient Imaging
Employment Type: Full Time | Direct Hire | Permanent Placement
Schedule: Overnight Weekender
Compensation: Competitive compensation with substantial overnight and weekend shift differential pay
Experience: Previous hospital, emergency, or acute care CT experience preferred
Why You’ll Love This Opportunity
This full time CT Technologist position is designed for an imaging professional who is confident supporting emergency and inpatient diagnostic needs during overnight weekend hours. You will play an important role in helping physicians make timely clinical decisions for patients experiencing trauma, stroke symptoms, acute illness, and other urgent conditions.
Because overnight imaging teams are typically smaller, this opportunity offers greater independence and responsibility than many traditional daytime positions. You will manage changing priorities, communicate closely with emergency and inpatient care teams, and ensure high quality examinations are completed safely and efficiently.
The concentrated weekend night schedule may be especially appealing to a technologist looking for fewer traditional weekday shifts and increased earning potential. Significant overnight and weekend differentials add meaningful value to the position without changing its full time status or benefits eligibility.
Located in Southwest Missouri, the surrounding area offers affordable housing, a welcoming hometown atmosphere, outdoor recreation, and access to larger regional destinations for dining, shopping, entertainment, and family activities.
What You’ll Do
✔ Perform diagnostic CT examinations for emergency, inpatient, and acute care patients.
✔ Prioritize imaging requests based on clinical urgency while remaining responsive to rapidly changing emergency department needs.
✔ Complete time sensitive examinations for patients experiencing trauma, stroke symptoms, abdominal pain, respiratory distress, and other acute conditions.
✔ Prepare and position patients safely while selecting appropriate imaging protocols based on the examination ordered.
✔ Administer contrast media according to established protocols and monitor patients for potential reactions.
✔ Evaluate images for positioning, technical quality, motion, and complete anatomical coverage before releasing studies for interpretation.
✔ Communicate clearly with emergency physicians, radiologists, nurses, and other members of the clinical care team.
✔ Follow radiation safety, infection prevention, patient identification, and contrast safety procedures.
✔ Maintain accurate examination records and document relevant patient, contrast, and procedural information.
✔ Monitor equipment readiness and maintain a safe, organized imaging environment throughout the overnight shift.
Required
✔ Completion of an accredited Radiologic Technology program.
✔ Current ARRT registration in Radiography.
✔ CT certification through ARRT or the ability to meet the employer’s CT credentialing requirements.
✔ Current Basic Life Support certification or the ability to obtain it before starting.
✔ Strong knowledge of CT imaging procedures, anatomy, radiation safety, and contrast administration.
✔ Ability to work independently and make sound clinical decisions during overnight hours.
✔ Strong communication, critical thinking, organization, and patient care skills.
✔ Ability to stand, walk, bend, position patients, and assist with patient transfers throughout the shift.
Preferred
• Previous CT experience in a hospital, emergency department, trauma, or acute care environment.
• Experience performing emergency CT studies involving stroke, trauma, chest, abdomen, pelvis, spine, and extremities.
• Experience with contrast enhanced imaging and power injection systems.
• ARRT certification in Computed Tomography.
Compensation & Benefits
✔ Competitive compensation
✔ Substantial overnight and weekend shift differential pay
✔ Annual merit increases
✔ No cost employee health insurance option
✔ Full suite of insurance benefits for employees and eligible family members
✔ Paid time off
✔ Retirement plan with increased employer matching
✔ Employee Assistance Program
✔ Early access to earned wages through PayActiv
✔ Employee discounts
🌱 Interested?
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🌱 About The Good Soil Staffing Company
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