Sonographer - General and Vascular

Purpose

Flexible Shift: Monday-Friday 7:00am-3:30pm or 8:00am-4:30pm
Pay: $40.00-$50.00 per hour.
Based on experience

About the role

Provide mobile ultrasound service. Majority of work activity performed in various nursing homes, home cares facilities, prisons and processing sites throughout regions serviced by Diagnostic Laboratories traveling in an automobile to the location.

Responsibilities

• Login for self-dispatching or call into the dispatch department to obtain information regarding beginning case load.
• Arrive at their first case at the start of their assigned shift or have left their house thirty (30) minutes prior.
• Unload portable sonographic equipment and take into facilities to perform exams ordered by the physician.
• Must obtain clinically diagnostic, technically competent images.
• Perform and process Ultrasounds using portable sonographic equipment and digitally send them to a Radiologist for interpretation.
• Check voicemail from each client’s facility upon completion of their assigned case(s); or minimally every thirty (30) minutes as necessary.
• Check for available cases via self-dispatching system and/or check in with the dispatcher on duty every thirty (30) minutes as necessary.
• Wear the company uniform, company-provided name tag, and follow company dress code.
• Carry the company -provided phone on his/her person
• Respond to all urgent communication within fifteen (15) minutes.
• Attend meetings as required.
• Upon arriving at facility, ALL ORDERS MUST BE CHECKED FOR ACCURACY AGAINST THE EXAMS(S) LISTED IN THE PATIENT’S CHART AS ORDERED BY THE PHYSICIAN.
• Scan exam related paperwork/billing on a daily basis per protocol.
• Communicate efficiently and perform professionally with call center, dispatch, peers, supervisory staff, and clients.
• Maintain vehicle and sonographic equipment.
• The sonographer maintains a high standard of medical ethics at all times and is self-motivated to increase level of understanding and knowledge of the field, disease, and new procedures as they evolve.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited diagnostic ultrasound technology program.
• Maintain required certification and registries, health requirements, and operational requirements.
• Carry and be able to provide credentials at all times.
• Must be able to perform basic smartphone operation as well as basic computer skills such as printing documents from attachments, scanning documents and attaching to emails.
• Knowledge of applicable regions, geography and travel routes.
• Pleasant phone manner and strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Skills

• Self-motivated, dependable, and work independently with little to no direct supervision.
• Complete and successfully pass drug screening and background check.
• Good organizational skills.

Benefits

• Two weeks of vacation time
• Health Insurance after 30 days!
• Sick time
• 8 paid holidays
• Same day pay available
• Medical insurance allowance, giving you the freedom to customize your plan to fit your needs
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Company paid life insurance
• 401(k)