Med Inst Tech - Hines, United States - Veterans Health Administration

Description

Summary

This position is located at the Edward Hines, Jr VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois a Level 1a Complexity and is organizationally aligned under the Medicine Service Line (MSL). Under the direction of the Supervisory Echocardiography Technician incumbent exercises Team Leader responsibility for a staff of non-supervisory Medical Instrument Technicians (ECHO).

Duties

On a regular and recurring basis, lead duties in this position consist of the following:

Distributes and balances the workload among employees in accordance with established workflow or job specialization, assure timely accomplishment of the assigned workload, and assure that each employee has enough work to keep busy;

Keeps in touch with the status and progress of work, and makes day- to- day adjustments in accordance with established priorities, obtaining assistance from the supervisor on problems that may arise.

Estimates and reports on expected time of completion of work, and maintain records of work accomplishments and time expended and prepare production reports as requested;

Instructs employees in specific tasks and job techniques and make available written or recorded instructions, reference materials and supplies;

Gives on the job training to new employees in accordance with established procedures and practices;

Maintains a current knowledge and answers questions of other employees on procedures, policies, directives, etc. and obtains needed information or decisions from supervisor on problems that come up;

Checks on work in progress or spot checks work not requiring review and reviews completed work to see that supervisor's instruction on work sequence, procedures, methods and deadlines have been met;

Amends or rejects work not meeting established standards, refer to supervisor questions or matters not covered by standards and problems in meeting performance standards;

Monitors working conditions such as seating, ventilation, lighting, safety, etc.;

Informs employees of available services and employee activities;

Resolves simple, informal complaints of employees and refer others to supervisor;

Reports to supervisor on performance, progress and training needs of employees, and on behavior problems; and

Provides information to supervisor as requested concerning promotions, reassignment, recognition of outstanding performance and personnel needs. Participates and/or leads quality assessment for the section.

Also, completes diagnostic echo studies ordered by and/or in collaboration with the physicians or Cardiology Fellow with minimal or no direct supervision; coordinates appointments and workload according to appropriateness of patients and staffing. The incumbent will perform an approximate average of 1500 to 1800 echocardiographic studies per year, including portable/bedside, routine, stat, stress and dobutamine echo exams.

Explains routine and non-routine procedures to veteran patients and other authorized individuals to ally fear of the process.

Observes patient's condition making notation of pertinent information, vital signs and other clinical information in accordance with established practices and in response to physician demand or change in patient's condition.-Records testing information and all procedures performed as well as diagnostic/procedure codes in secured computerized database. Troubleshoots data and/or scheduling issues and resolves as appropriate.

Provides instruction in diagnostic echo-doppler procedures and/or assists in the echocardiographic imaging techniques with specified Cardiology Fellows or Cardiology Attendings and verifies accuracy of data recorded.

Evaluates and assesses new equipment or new techniques, occasionally providing written findings to leadership or other echo lab attendings.

Performs proper routine maintenance of equipment according to established procedures. Cleans, calibrates and maintains technical components and related office equipment.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule : (DAYS) M-F 8:00am -4:30pm, with Occasional Saturday coverage
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement # F
Fi nancial Disclosure Report: Not required