Arizona Cardiac Ultrasound Tech Job

About St. Joseph's:

St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has been a symbol of quality healtcare in the Valley of the Sun for more than 110 years. We are extremely proud to announce that we are the only Arizona hospital to be voted a "Best Place to Work in the Valley" five years in a row. We are also proud to be named a top hospital by Ranking Arizona Magazine and to be routinely recognized as one of the country's best neuroscience centers by U.S. News & World Report.

St. Joseph's is home to: the internationally renowned Barrow Neurological Institute; St. Joseph's Children's Health Center, which is the second larget provider of comprehensive pediatric services in the state; The Heart & Lung Institute at St. Joseph's; and St. Joseph's Trauma Center, which is the only Level 1 tauma center in Arizona that's verified by the American College of Surgeons.

St. Joseph's continues to expand and enhance its services to meet the growing need of the community by providing comprehensive neurological, pediatric, perinatal, cardiac, thoracic, and cancer care. The hospital's nine critical care units serve more than 60,000 patients each year. In 2006, St. Joseph's opened a 144-bed tower, making it the largest hospital in Arizona with 743 beds.

Founded in 1895 by the Sisters of Mercy, St. Joseph's continues to help the underservced through clinics, community gramts and outreach programs. The hospital is part of Catholic Healthcare West, which has more than 40 hospitals in Arizona, California and Nevada.

About the Position:

Our Pediatric Cardiodiagnostics Department is currently seeking an Echo Supervisor with the following qualifications:

• Assists in the implementation of the immediate and long term goals of the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography laboratory.
• Responsible for echocardiography laboratory daily operations that include coordination of schedule and work flow.
• Directly responsible for maintaining the proper functioning of the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography Laboratory’s physical plant and equipment.
• Coordination of sonographer daily activities and facilitating a smooth work flow in accordance with set guidelines.
• Coordination and participation, if necessary, in Outreach services.
• Coordination and participation in Telemedicine services.
• Assists the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography laboratory Director in preparing annual appraisals for sonographers and Echo Lab non-technical staff.
• Responsible for resolution of human resources and human relation issues of the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography laboratory technical and non-technical staff. Promotes professionalism in employee-employee and employee-patient relationship.
• Acts as Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography laboratory liaison to enhance relationship with Medical Center administrative, medical, technical and clerical staff members.
• Facilitates continuous quality improvement process within the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography laboratory and assists the lab Director in doing that function on an interdivisional basis.
• Monitors and implements Echo Lab database information entry.
• Responsible for assuring accuracy of in-patient, out-patient, and outreach echo billing.
• Assists the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography Laboratory Director in preparation and management of the Echo lab annual operational and capital budget.
• Performs echocardiograms in accordance with set guidelines.
• Facilitates implementation of imaging guidelines set as standard for the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography laboratory by the Director.
• Facilitates consistency in imaging quality among other sonographers according to the set imaging guidelines.
• Assists the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography laboratory Director and other authorized physicians in preparation of Echo Lab materials for clinical and educational conferences.
• Participates in educational and research conferences involving echocardiography with the approval of the Echo Lab Director.
• Assists the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography laboratory Director and other authorized physicians in training physician-trainees and medical students.
• Assists the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography laboratory Director in the Lab’s educational program for sonographer-trainees.
• Participates in research protocols with the approval of the Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography laboratory Director.
• Supports St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and Catholic Healthcare West goals and initiatives.