What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cardiac Sonographer position at Inova Health System?
Long Description:
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is looking for a dedicated Echo Vascular Tech to join the team. This role will be a Full-Time Monday - Friday, occasional Saturday.
Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Featured Benefits:
- Committed to Team Member Health: offering a robust team member wellness program.
- Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
- Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
- Career Development: Individual Development Planning that focuses on supporting team member aspirations.
- State-of-the-Art Medical and Training Facilities
Echo Vascular Tech Job Responsibilities:
- Calculates, measures, and documents appropriate values on the tests performed for review and interpretation by physicians.
- Communicates with physicians, managers and coworkers, as appropriate, about changes in patients' clinical conditions while undergoing echocardiogram or vascular studies.
- Demonstrates a thorough understanding of IVs and central line usage as they pertain to diagnostic medical sonography.
- Maintains the echocardiogram/vascular laboratory quality assurance database.
Echo Vascular Tech Additional Requirements:
- Work Schedule: Full-Time Monday - Friday, occasional Saturday
- Education: Graduate of an accredited Ultrasound program, successful completion of an accredited Ultrasound program and graduation within 6 months or five years of directly relevant on the job training.
- License: None
- Certification: American Board of Radiology - Diagnostic Medical Physics, must have ARDMS with RVT; CCI with the RVS Certification for Vascular; or Registry eligible. If not Registered Vascular Technologist (RVT) upon start, must be eligible upon start to complete certification within 2 years of hire; Basic Life Support (BLS) upon start
- Experience: Two years of experience in an Echo/Vascular Laboratory.
As a recipient of federal financial assistance, Inova Health System (“Inova”) does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services or benefits under any of its programs or activities, whether carried out by Inova directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Inova arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This policy is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at 45 C.F.R. Parts 80, 84, 91 and 92, respectively.
