What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pediatric Echocardiography Technician position at M Health Fairview?
Overview
Fairview Health Services is hiring a Pediatric Echocardiography Technician (Pediatric Sonographer) to join our team in the Pediatric Echo Lab at our M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital locations in Minneapolis, MN. $15,000 Sign on Bonus available!
The Echocardiographer performs non-invasive cardiac diagnostic imaging using ultrasound technology to aid the physician in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases. As a Pediatric Echocardiographer, you will need to have the ability to evaluate pediatric patients with sophisticated congenital heart disease.
The Pediatric Heart Center consists of a comprehensive team of cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, sophisticated practitioners, nurses and healthcare professionals committed to providing lifesaving care to people with heart disease. Our heart specialists and their teams have built upon a 60-year legacy of clinical care, research and innovation, including the world’s first open-heart surgery. We’ve transformed lives with major advances in valve replacements, transplants, cardiac resuscitation, and other techniques to treat heart disease. We bring together a deep understanding of academic medicine and sophisticated clinical care to tailor our therapies to each patient’s individual condition.
Schedule: This position will be working 1.0 FTE (80 hours every two weeks).
About Fairview
Fairview Health Services is an industry-leading, award-winning nonprofit that offers an entire network of healthcare services. Fairview is one part of M Health Fairview, a partnership between the University of Minnesota, M Physicians and Fairview Health Services. Together, we combine the University’s deep history of clinical innovation and training with Fairview’s extensive roots in community medicine. Our care portfolio includes community hospitals, academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, facilitated living centers, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, counseling, pharmacies, and benefit management services.
Responsibilities/Job Description
- Demonstrating the ability to evaluate the cardiac status by using a logical and systematic approach to analyze the heart and related structures segmentally.
- Evaluating pediatric patients with complex congenital heart disease
- Providing relevant echocardiographic data, making quantitative calculations and communicating the impressions for the physicians.
- Accurately Document a preliminary echocardiogram report
- Demonstrating extensive knowledge of the incidence, causes, inheritance patterns, and pathologic consequences of congenital malformations
Qualifications
Qualifications
· Associate of Applied Science Degree in Non-Invasive Imaging
· 5 years of Pediatric Echocardiography experience
· Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) – adult, pediatric
· BLS Certification within 3 months of hire
Preferred
· Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Non-Invasive Imaging
· 10 years of Pediatric Echocardiography experience
· Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) – fetal
