Cardiovascular Non-Invasive Manager

40hpw; Day Shift Job Description: Provides operational oversight, professional guidance, and direction to the Non-invasive cardiology team, ensuring services are provided efficiently and effectively to our patients.

As an expert in the assigned area, serves as a resource person to staff and physicians.

About Bilh

• When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
• As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities.
• More than 35,000 people working together.
• Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives.
• Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Responsibilities

• Regularly reviews and revises, as necessary, relevant standards and ensures services performed comply with all hospital, system, and regulatory agency standards.
• Coordinates provision of services with other nursing and medical functions and serves as a technical resource for departmental personnel.
• Assumes responsibility for the for the daily operations, clinical quality and personnel management of the non-invasive cardiology department.
• Directs the workflows for Echocardiography/TEE, Vascular Ultrasound, Stress Testing, Holter Monitoring, and EKG/ECG services.
• Develops and monitors the annual operational budget (including expense and revenue target variances), manages inventory and supply costs, ensures appropriate charge capture, submits recommendations for capital equipment purchases and manages all assigned resources including FTEs.
• Coordinates care delivery with cardiologists, nursing and clinical leadership.
• Directs the daily inpatient, outpatient and emergent care scheduling and staff workflow by actively managing appointment schedules, staffing productivity and exam order queues.
• Hires, onboards, trains, evaluates, counsels and schedules technical staff, including Cardiac Sonographers and EKG Technicians.
• Ensures that staff maintain required competencies and credentials.
• Maintains compliance with Joint Commission standards and leads the accreditation processes for ICAEL/ICAVL (IAC).
• Establishes and monitors quality assurance metrics for diagnostic reporting.
• Coordinates preventative maintenance, repair and software updates of ultrasound machines and related PACS/CPACS equipment.
• Works with hospital associated cardiology offices to build synergies, efficiencies and teamwork between cardiologist practices and the hospital.
• Supports referring physician practices and partners with these practices to build business relationships.
• Manage patient flow using LEAN methodology to evaluate waste/wasted time and re-work.
• Perform payroll duties and creates/distributes staff schedules.
• Promote teamwork within the department and across all organizational service lines.
• Ensure proper clinical documentation with consistent documentation reviews and ensures that exam interpretations are completed in timely manner.
• Coordinates/provides unit-based competencies and education.
• Utilizes appropriate practice standards to direct staff.
• Actively participates in information system and equipment upgrades as well as vendor supplied equipment and services.
• Leads and participates in quality improvement utilizing recognized guidelines to improve patient outcomes.
• Develops and directs the orientation and clinical education programs for the department.
• Contributes to the development and implementation of system policies.
• Serves as a professional role model and mentor to staff.
• It is understood that this is a summary of key job functions and does not include every detail of the job that may reasonably be required.

Requirements

• Associates Degree Required; Bachelor’s preferred; progressive responsibilities
• Constant concentration and problem solving.

Preferred

• 3 years of management experience Registration/Certification: Current American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography® (ARDMS) registered certification as a Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS); or Current Cardiac Credentialing International (CCI) registered certification as a Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS) Physical/Environmental Requirements This job requires frequent bending, carrying, pulling, pushing, reaching, and standing, stooping, walking and lifting over 10 lbs.
• There will be occasional need for climbing stairs, lifting in excess of 50 – 100 lbs. and sitting.
• Frequent keyboard and telephone use.

Pay

$120,000.00 USD - $140,000.00 USD The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time.

Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

Constant use of hearing, sight and speech. Frequent use of smell and touch.

Application Instructions

Applicants will only be considered for the specific Job Posting to which they apply. If there are multiple Job Postings for the same or similar role, applicants must apply separately to each posting to ensure consideration.

• Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
• Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled