ALLIED HEALTH CAREERS OVERVIEW
Advance your career and experience true inspiration as you collaborate with many of the top professionals in your specialty. At UCLA Health, we value your education and experience and will provide you with ongoing opportunities for learning and development so you can consistently enhance your skills and professional potential. You’ll find ways to grow your career as you help improve health for one of the most vibrant and diverse communities in the world. You’ll be able to take on unique, high-acuity cases in an environment of teamwork and support. It’s the chance to build your professional reputation by shining in the most clinically challenging situations.
Radiology
Deliver the specialized expertise that gives clinicians a better picture of a patient’s condition so they can provide more effective treatments. From ultrasound and MRI to high-speed CT and mammography, we conduct clinical research for all imaging modalities. As a completely filmless department, we use computed and digital radiography. In our new state-of-the-art digital facility, we develop new models for image display and archiving techniques. The future growth of our specialty also provides incredible learning opportunities. We have roles in the cath tab, CT area, general diagnostics. interventional, mammography, MRI, sonography, and ultrasound.
Pharmacy
Live out your passion for excellence within one of the premier pharmacy departments in the nation. We’ll offer you the opportunity to broaden your abilities while delivering leading-edge care. We provide 24-hour comprehensive services from our decentralized facility in Westwood, our centralized location in Santa Monica, and our satellite locations throughout the community. Our pharmacy programs include critical evaluation of therapy, screening for drug-to-drug interactions, pharmacokinetic monitoring, TPN therapy, therapeutic interchanges, and IV-to-PO conversions. We also offer an ASHP-accredited residency program that provides training in medicine, critical care, surgery, ambulatory care, and administration.
Rehabilitation
If you’re inspired by elevating the quality of life for others, you can help us develop innovative care plans that transform the healing process. Our rehab professionals practice the most progressive methodologies—many of which were discovered and pioneered right here. As part of a world-class teaching and research center, we foster a culture of continuous development where you’re encouraged to publish and participate in clinical education programs, conferences, and clinics. Our rehab services include:
- Physical Therapy – Our range of clinically challenging programs will provide you with the broad exposure you need to enhance your skills and grow your career. Practice areas include outpatient, acute care, and neuro rehab. Outpatient physical therapists see a combination of ortho and neuro patients, offering an even broader spectrum of cases and opportunities to learn.
- Occupational Therapy – Our occupational therapists apply their expertise to acute, outpatient, NICU, and neuro rehab practice areas. Some of our professionals specialize further through our outpatient Hand Therapy Clinic. As part of our expansive health system, you’ll be able to collaborate with physicians in specialized areas, such as low vision rehab and hand surgery.
Social Work
It takes true passion to bring together multiple disciplines to ensure the best outcomes for every patient. You’ll be a fully integrated member of our care delivery team, helping patients and their families get superior care from our world-class healthcare system. Serving as both expert clinicians and patient advocates throughout our outpatient, inpatient, and partial hospital programs, social workers and discharge planners help patients access the resources they require—whether within the hospital, the community, or their home environments—to facilitate the healing process. We provide a variety of social work services in our three world-class hospitals: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.
Phlebotomy
Combine your specialized skill and passion with our leading-edge practices to ensure exceptional patient care. Working in our Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, you’ll be able to excel at the highest level of your profession. Across the hospital, our phlebotomists demonstrate incredible attention to detail, excellent dexterity, and collaboration across disciplines. Our department has attracted professionals from across the nation who manage all blood work throughout the UCLA system with the utmost compassion and attention to detail.
Respiratory Therapy
Your passion and skill can help our respiratory patients breathe easier. You’ll work with world-class colleagues and state-of-the-art technology to help alleviate suffering as you rise to the pinnacle of your discipline at one of the top health systems in the country. The pace is exhilarating and the work is rewarding. Performing a multitude of procedures, you’ll make assessments and assist in critical treatments not seen anywhere else in the Western U.S. Patients from around the world seek out UCLA Health, offering you the chance to work with higher acuity cases and more complex diagnoses than you’ve ever encountered. Our Intensive Care Unit is where the vast majority of our respiratory therapists make their greatest impact. We also encourage RTs interested in our advanced Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to begin training for this vital area.
Clinical Lab & Pathology
Through passionate expertise, you’ll help clinicians uncover the causes of illness and injury. You’ll provide exceptional diagnostic support for our patients in a state-of-the-art setting. Our ultra-modern systems and best-in-class practices are respected throughout the field. With responsibility for all laboratory and pathology work within UCLA Health, our department attracts clinical laboratory scientists from around the world and is enriched by a team of fellows and residents. We also provide diagnostic disease management for specialty clinical services. Our facilities include a highly automated, high-volume testing laboratory for inpatient and outpatient specimens. Our specialty areas include the Blood Donor Center, immunohistochemistry, microbiology, molecular diagnostics, and neuropathology.
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