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El Camino Health
Mountain View, California

MRI Technologist - PD - All - Imaging - MRI @ MV

Imaging TechIncludes callPer Diem

Listed compensation

$75.56-$95.92/hr

The week · per this posting

Ask the employer about the work setting, weekend coverage, nights and shift pattern and time off.

Posted 2mo ago

Job Description

El Camino Health is committed to hiring, retaining and growing the best and brightest professionals who will carry our mission and vision forward. We are proud of our reputation in the community: One built on compassion, innovation, collaboration and delivering high-quality care. Come join the team that makes this happen.

Applicants MUST apply for position(s) by submitting a separate application for each individual job posting number they are interested in being considered for.

  • FTE
  • 0
  • Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours
  • 0

Work Shift

All Shifts: 8 hours

Job Description

Collaborates with other members of the healthcare team to promote optimum imaging procedures. Provides imaging services as defined by Title 17 (Radiologic Health Branch) and Title 22 (Department of Health Services) for the State of California. Applying the principles in assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating and modifying patient imaging care as an active, continuous process.

Key Responsibilities

  • Demonstrates job-specific, technical and clinical competence
  • Understands MRI safety principals and applies them for the protection of patients and co-workers alike
  • Demonstrates and upholds organizational values and excellence standards
  • Demonstrates concern for meeting or exceeding internal and external customer expectation/requirements in a manner that provides satisfaction for the customer
  • Works effectively as a team member

Responds Promptly to Requests for Information

  • Communicates effectively with other technologists, radiologists and other members of the health care team to ensure the message is getting across appropriately
  • Interacts with patients, families, and visitors in a professional, compassionate manner
  • Supports organizational objectives over individual needs

Fosters a Culture of Continuous Improvement

  • Responds to change with a positive attitude and willingness to learn new ways to accomplish work activities and objectives
  • Engaged in discovering ways to increase value and drive waste from processes
  • Complies with regulatory standards and laws as applicable to their license
  • Meets deadlines without reminders

Job Specific Competencies

  • Performs screening procedures on all patients, visitor, vendors and other staff when entering zones III and IV to include the double identification of all patients
  • Promotes and supports all MRI safety initiatives
  • Follows safety procedures and guidelines and reports unsafe practices and conditions
  • Explains the MRI process to the patient in a way that is informative but also reassuring
  • Positions, transfers and properly immobilizes patients as required
  • Prepares patients for and administers IV injections for contrast materials
  • Performs MRI scanning procedures to include instructing patients and selecting techniques
  • Performs scanning, reconstruction of proper images, and post processing
  • Preforms QA on all images prior to ending the exam and sending images to PACS

Accurately completes documentation according to hospital and department guidelines, e. g., EHR documentation of exam performed, rationale for exam, tech notes, consent forms, etc.

Preforms quality control on the MRI units and other equipment as required

Evaluates personnel and department work volume and flow to insure efficient departmental patient care. Prioritized work according to urgency and resources.

Consistently and Appropriately Follows Universal Precautions

  • Keeps updated on MRI developments through professional journals, on the job training and other educational opportunities
  • Maintains clinical competency assuming reasonability for continuing education and on-going modality
  • Assists in performing first aid, CPR and AED
  • Participates in peer competencies
  • Participates in the training and onboarding of new team members
  • Reports equipment issues to clinical engineering and vendor service engineer
  • Is aware of and works within hospital and department safety guidelines, including reporting potential hazards and hazardous behavior
  • Uses appropriate body mechanics and lifting devices as needed

Qualifications

Graduate of an accredited Radiologic Technology or MRI program. Registered by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologist in Radiology, ARRT (R) or ARMRIT and upon hire or within 4 months of hire, registered in MRI, ARRT (MR)

  • Must clear MRI safety screening to safely work in Zone IV.
  • Preferred: Siemens equipment experience
  • License/Certification/Registration Requirements
  • ARRT (R) or ARMRIT

ARRT (MR)

  • BLS
  • California Certification in Venipuncture

Salary Range

$75.56 - $95.92 USD Hour

The Physical Requirements and Working Conditions of this job are available. El Camino Health will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with a disability if that will allow them to perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so creates an undue hardship for the hospital, or causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace which cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation.

Medium Work - Requires standing the majority of the shift with the ability to lift up to 35 lbs. frequently. Work involves sitting, kneeling, climbing and squatting. - (Physical Requirements-United States of America)

An Equal Opportunity Employer

El Camino Health seeks and values a diverse workforce. The organization is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of qualifications and competencies.

El Camino Health prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, ancestry, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, marital status, age, medical condition or any other status protected by law.

In addition to state and federal law, El Camino Health also follows all applicable fair and equitable employment policies from the County of Santa Clara.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Patient positioningIV injectionContrast administrationImage reconstructionQuality assurancePatient screeningEquipment maintenance

MRI Technology Career Context

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 40 active MRI Technology listings this role was benchmarked against, 57% have no call, 55% require no weekends.

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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Relocation assistance
10%
Loan repayment
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CME allowance
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Work-life snapshot

median 3.9this job 1.5
Below most Mri Technology (Imaging Tech) listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 75 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in Mountain View

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$2.08M
Typical market rent
$4,536/mo
Residents’ average commute
23 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
110.4
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.