Is IEP officer considered PACS or admin job?

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For all the PACS managers and employers out there—when hiring for a PACS admin role, would you prioritize radiography experience or IEP support officer experience? Which do you think is more important?

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Radiography experience

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Thanks for the answer. Do you consider an IEP support officer role as part of PACS, or is it a clerical job? Would gaining that experience be beneficial if I’m already a radiographer looking to move into PACS?

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Hi, We have PACS Admin and PACS Senior Admin within our team.
PACS Admin deal with IEP and subject access image transfer, this is more a clerical role but experience within a medical admin role helps with terminology etc but not a necessity.
Our PACS Senior admin are Radiographers, they deal with PACS housekeeping (merging, moving images) amongst many other tasks.

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Usually…
Dedicated IEP clerks are Band 3 or Band 4 and may not necessarily have clinical experience:
Band 3 clerks are generally clerically based, Band 4’s tend to come from the clinical assistant type pool. The difference being the ‘points’ awarded on their JD/PS bandings.
It’s rare to have Band 5+ IEP clerks, at that level the role is generally shared by PACS Radiographers as part of a wider set of duties (Band 6/7).

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