CV Sonographer - Educator Job Listing at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, SC (Job ID 1443219000)

Description

Echovascular Lab  
Full Time
Day Shift 
Monday-Friday

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state's first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer's care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Facilitates the delivery of quality patient care through practice as an educator, mentor, and leader for Cardiovascular Sonographers. The Dual Registered Sonographer Educator is an expert clinician who demonstrates departmental and service line-based leadership, excellent communication skills, and proficient knowledge and decision- making skills. Performs all aspects of diagnostic testing and quality improvement related to echocardiogram and vascular studies. Educators are exceptional teachers, critical thinkers, and exhibit collaboration with all members of leadership, staff, and providers. Develops, coordinates, and implements orientation, training, and competency validation for all sonographers (HVC/Main/Mobile Echo), new hires, and students.

Minimum Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent
Minimum Years of Experience: 5 Years of Experience in Echocardiography and Vascular Technology (can be concurrent)
Substitutable Education & Experience: None.
Required Certifications/Licensure: Registered in Echocardiography and Vascular Technology;

Must be certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) or become certified within 3 months of employment.
Required Training: Must possess excellent understanding of medical terminology.

• Demonstrates competence to provide developmentally appropriate care/treatment for patients ranging from Infants (Birth to 1 Year) through Geriatric (Over 65 Years)
• Performs all duties and responsibilities of the staff sonographer.
• Consistently and integrally involved in daily operations, which may include staffing/call schedules
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Assists Manager, Coordinator, and/or Director with staff education, orientation, and competencies.
• Serves in the role of educational mentor to all sonographer staff.
• Develops, coordinates, implements, evaluates, and revises (current) sonographer protocols and competencies per accreditation guidelines.
• Provides structured orientation to new employees and identified areas of specific competencies to be completed annually by all staff members.
• Identifies needs for staff development.
• Creates, implements, and evaluates education programs for group settings and works individually with staff for training, educating, and mentoring.
• Creates and maintains monitoring programs for staff performance.
• Organizes and participates in annual competencies for Echo and Vascular testing.
• Provides education to other disciplines as related to Echo and Vascular testing.
• Ensures adherence to clinical and accreditation standards.
• Is responsible for maintaining Echocardiogram and Vascular Accreditations.
• Maintains continuous quality assurance plans according to accreditation standards.
• Supplies education to staff when needed to improve quality.
• Provide quarterly QA data to Medical Directors, Manager, and Director.
• Maintains policy and procedure manual for Echo and Vascular testing.

• Researches best practice and assists with policy and procedure development, revisions, and annual reviews.
• Educates staff to new policies and procedures.
• Maintains equipment and facilitates operations of diagnostic services for Echo/Vascular.
• Monitors and evaluates the safety, efficiency, and accuracy of diagnostic tests.
• Evaluates current equipment for optimal operation.
• Assists in setting up machine presets an protocols.
• Serves as resource to staff.
• Provides consistent feedback to staff and mentoring through positive interactions.
• Provides detailed feedback and participates as needed to Manager/Director(s) for Probationary and Annual Performance Evaluations.   
• Promotes a professional working atmosphere in department and maintains professional rapport with the Medical Director(s), Medical Staff, and all other healthcare professionals.
• Facilitates the direct care sonographer's acquisition of knowledge and skills needed to provide cost-effective, quality patient care.
• Works effectively with team/work groups to accomplish organizational goals.
• Provides 1-on-1 education, support, and oversight for new hires and students.
• Demonstrates competence in critical thinking and problem-solving skills to assist staff in providing care and treatment for the patient populations served.
• Serves as a resource and role model for sonographer staff, other healthcare personnel, and sonographer students in the acquisition of knowledge and skills related to their practice.
• Maintains professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, in-service meetings, current literature and professional affiliations; maintains Registration (s) and educational requirements.
• Embodies those behaviors, philosophies, and values which serve to uphold the ideals and enhance the image of Lexington Medical Center.
• Works in a cooperative manner which fosters favorable relations between employees and patients, patient's families, visitors, fellow employees, and the medical staff.
• Performs all other duties as assigned or as required by circumstances based on departmental needs. 
   

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our benefit eligible employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits 
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one.  LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary 
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness

Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Lexington Health to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Lexington Health strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. Lexington Health endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee's desires and abilities and the hospital's needs.