Lead Vascular Technologist
About the role
Join Cleveland Clinic’s Martin South Hospital where research and surgery are advanced, technology is leading-edge, patient care is world-class, and caregivers are family. This 100-bed hospital provides top-quality patient care to the communities in and around Martin County. Here, you will work alongside passionate physicians, nurses, and other caregivers in a family-oriented, supportive environment.
Responsibilities
- Function as a primary technical resource for the Cardiovascular Imaging Lab and assist with day-to-day operations.
- Direct and coordinate all aspects of the Cardiovascular Imaging Lab Quality Assurance Programs.
- Oversee visiting physicians, sonographers and fellows and coordinate and direct continuing education training on new equipment and technology including stress echo and dobutamine.
- Perform Echo, Doppler, Color Doppler and 3D exams.
- Assist in the design, implementation and evaluation of existing or proposed modalities.
- Serve as a resource to the Cardiovascular Imaging Sonographers and Supervisor in resolution of discrepancies or problems in their assigned areas of responsibility as it pertains to quality assurance.
- Maintain patient care aspect of quality assurance.
- Attend meetings to support research and educational growth and awareness.
- Facilitate monthly teaching sessions and journal club.
- Work with the vendors for on-going on-site teaching sessions.
- Work individually with staff to improve image acquisition and quality.
- Act as liaison to schools and mentor students that rotate through the lab for training.
Requirements
- Graduate from a two-year Cardiovascular Technologist Program
- Three years of experience in cardiac ultrasound
- Active Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) registry status from American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) or Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS) from Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI)
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross
Qualifications
- Vascular AND Echo Technologist
Physical Requirements
- Interact with patients, family's physicians and other health care workers.
- Good hand coordination for positioning of probe and equipment.
- Good vision to analyze computer screens and VCR recordings to diagnose test results.
- Moderate lifting and positioning of patients.
- Moderate pushing and pulling of equipment.
- Working Conditions: 100% air conditioned. Moderate risk of exposure to blood or airborne pathogens.
Benefits
- We offer the following choices to cover your health, dental and vision care as well as life insurance.
- Health Plan Options – You have the choice between two comprehensive Cleveland Clinic Employee Health Plan options: EHP and EHP Plus. Both plans are administered by Aetna and feature minimal copays for in-network care.
- Dental Care – Four plan options administered by Cigna are available.
- Vision Care – Two plan options administered by EyeMed are available.
- Flexible Spending Accounts – Healthcare and Dependent Care FSAs are available to help you pay for eligible expenses with pre-tax dollars.
- Life Insurance – Employer-paid life insurance equals 1x your annual salary with an option to purchase supplemental life insurance up to 10x your salary. You may also purchase dependent life insurance for a spouse and dependent children
- Short- and Long-term Disability Coverage – Short-term disability is available after one continuous year of regular full-time service; long-term disability begins after 90 days.
Pay
Salaries [which may be] shown on independent job search websites reflect various market averages and do not represent information obtained directly from The Cleveland Clinic. Because we value each individual candidate, we invite and encourage each candidate to discuss salary/hourly specifics during the application and hiring process.
Schedule
Days - Floating between Martin North, Martin South, Tradition, St. Lucie West and Stuart Family Health Center will be required, as needed.