Cardiac Sonographer - Pediatric Cardiology

About the role

Bring your expertise to a team where advanced cardiac imaging, strong mentorship, and real growth opportunities come together. As an echocardiographer (cardiac sonographer) with our pediatric heart program, you'll work within a supportive and team‑oriented culture that encourages personal and professional development. Echo Techs work within a sonography‑led lab, under the guidance of leadership with extensive backgrounds in echocardiography.

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive and complex echocardiographic studies utilizing 2D, 3D, Doppler, and color flow imaging technologies.
• Analyze cardiac anatomy and function in real time, recognizing, evaluating, documenting, and communicating abnormal findings and critical results to physicians.
• Collaborate closely with pediatric, fetal, and adult congenital cardiologists to support diagnostic evaluation and patient care planning.
• Prepare preliminary reports, complete required measurements and documentation, and ensure timely and accurate EMR workflow completion.
• Provide compassionate, age-appropriate patient and family education while ensuring patient comfort and cooperation throughout the examination process.
• Serve as a clinical resource and mentor to sonographers, providing guidance on scanning techniques, image optimization, and professional development.
• Support quality improvement initiatives and departmental standards through participation in competency validation, continuing education, and performance improvement activities.
• May serve in leadership roles such as Lead Echocardiographer, Quality Coordinator, or Technical Director, supporting accreditation requirements, quality assessment activities, operational efficiency, and best practices.
• Assist with equipment management, troubleshooting, capital equipment evaluation, and collaboration with Biomedical Engineering to maintain optimal imaging performance.
• Support transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) procedures in the catheterization lab, operating room, and elective study settings.
• Rotate through inpatient, outpatient, and outreach locations and participate in call coverage, including evenings, weekends, and overnight rotations.
• Maintain knowledge of applicable regulatory, accreditation, and hospital standards, including Joint Commission requirements and departmental policies.
• Participate in staff meetings and other duties as assigned to support departmental and organizational goals.

Qualifications

Required:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Minimum of 10 years of inpatient and/or outpatient cardiac ultrasound experience.
• Current ARDMS Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) credential in Adult Echocardiography (AE) and/or Pediatric Echocardiography (PE), or CCI Registered Congenital Cardiac Sonographer (RCCS) credential.
• New Mexico state licensure through the New Mexico Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Program (NMRTT).
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Preferred:

• Graduate of a two-year Allied Health training program in Ultrasound Technology.
• Bachelor's degree in a health sciences field, including but not limited to Cardiovascular Technology, Ultrasound, Radiologic Technology, Respiratory Therapy, or Nursing.
• Graduate of an accredited Cardiac Ultrasound (Echocardiography) program.

Certification Requirement: Candidates who do not currently hold the ARDMS Pediatric Echocardiography (PE) or CCI Registered Congenital Cardiac Sonographer (RCCS) credential must obtain the required registry within 18 months of hire.

Benefits

• $20,000 sign-on bonus and $6,000 relocation assistance for qualifying candidates.
• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities.
• Staff Safety wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern.
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions).
• Malpractice liability insurance.
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department.
• EPIC electronic charting system.
• Access to a wellness program including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more.

Schedule

Full time, 1.00 FTE, non-exempt. Work shift: Days.