Echocardiography Operational & Clinical Specialist, Cardiology

About the role

The Echocardiography Operational & Clinical Specialist, along with the Medical Director of the Echocardiography Lab, includes operational oversight of the echocardiography lab. Together, this team maintains ICAEL lab accreditation for all services provided, coordinates equipment purchasing and budgeting within each budget cycle, coordinates equipment maintenance and repair with biomed/vendors, supports growth and outreach initiatives throughout the Delaware Valley service area. The role helps maintain and grow partner (e.g. Jefferson) relationships, supports interdepartmental relationships within Nemours, maintains the educational and CME structure of the lab, establishes and maintains a cadence of communication and process improvements with cardiology counterparts at Nemours-Florida, participates in procedural billing audits, and continuous improvement with other members of the operational teams (internal and external), and works hand in hand with the Epic and Enterprise Imaging Informatics teams to manage and optimize the technical components of the performance, transfer, and reporting of an Nemours and non-Nemours echocardiograms.

Responsibilities

• Actively completes echocardiographic examinations on inpatients and outpatients (ideally both fetal and transthoracic).
• Completes echocardiographic examinations of inpatients together with an imaging cardiologist (transesophageal, epicardial).
• Supports and participates in national echocardiography lab quality improvement and assurance initiatives.
• Maintains outreach site equipment in working order so clinical work can proceed without limitation.
• Enforces and updates relevant department and hospital policy.
• Purchases, vendor negotiation processes, and cost accounting procedures for echocardiography services, particularly for outreach clinical sites and partner sites.
• Serves as a leader in the echocardiography lab particularly in the absence of the Echocardiography Lab Manager.
• Supports telemedicine initiatives including fetal telecardiology outreach and technical support for both Nemours telehealth-based encounters and Phillips Collaboration Live.

Requirements

• Active RCCS or RDCS (PE) certification is required; Active RDCS with Fetal Certification is preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association is required.
• Average of five years Echocardiographic Sonography experience is required.
• Familiarity with Syngo Dynamics Workplace, ScImage, Radiant, PACS, image transfer/reading platforms (or similar platforms) is required.
• Supervisory or management experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Associate degree is required; Bachelor’s degree is preferred.