Echocardiographer Technologist

Baystate Health; Springfield (MA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Baystate Health in Massachusetts is seeking an echocardiography professional to perform clear and concise echocardiography and stress echo, including Doppler, color flow, and pulsed wave analysis. You will recognize abnormal findings and inform physicians while supporting the health care team.

The role requires a minimum of 24 months of full-time echocardiography experience, strong communication, and organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Must perform echocardiography and stress echo including Doppler, color flow, and pulsed wave analysis.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills to interact with health care team.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates knowledge of developmental stages for age groups and applies theories when planning and implementing care.
• Adapts to changes in the work environment; completes mandatory requirements; flexible to staffing needs.
• Communicates with the team; provides care with kindness and preserves patient autonomy, dignity, and rights; supports team members.
• Attends and participates in staff meetings regularly.
• Orders and maintains supplies; keeps a neat environment; ensures supply availability; accepts direction from manager.
• Follows policies; demonstrates current knowledge and competency in obtaining clear imaging and operating equipment; documents paperwork; assists with testing from adolescent to geriatric.

Skills

Registered/Registry eligible

Job description

Summary:

Incumbent performs clear and concise echocardiography and stress echo including Doppler, color flow, and pulsed wave analysis. Incumbent must be able to recognize and diagnostically enhance abnormal findings for physician and demonstrate the ability to make sound judgments; inform cardiologist of any acute findings, and have excellent communication and organizational skills to interact with all members of the health care team.

### Job Responsibilities:

• 1)Demonstrated knowledge of developmental stages for the following age groups and applies developmental theories and concepts when planning and implementing care for patients.
• **2)**Adapts to changes in the work environment in a mature and cooperative manner. Assures completion of mandatory requirements. Flexible in response to staffing needs
• **3)**Communicates, collaborates, and maintains relationships with special awareness of how he/she affects others. Provides care with kindness, sensitivity and in a manner that preserves/protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights. Accepts direction and willingly offers support and assistance to team members.
• **4)**Attends and participates in staff meetings on a regular basis
• **5)**Independently orders and maintains supplies. Maintains a neat and organized work environment. Assures the availability of supplies. Accepts direction from manager and willingly accepts and/or offers help to other members of the health care team.
• **6)**Adheres to established policies/procedures. Demonstrates current knowledge, skills and competency including but not limited to: Obtaining a clear and concise image of cardiac structures; demonstrates knowledge in use of all equipment; knows accurate positioning; completes all paperwork; troubleshoots echo machine; ability to provide age specific data from adolescence to geriatric; communication skills necessary to perform age-specific test from pediatric to geriatric.

### Required Work Experience:

• 1)Minimum of 24 months full time clinical echocardiography experience

### Preferred Work Experience:

• 1)None Listed

### Skills and Competencies:

• 1)Registered/Registry eligible

Note: The compensation range(s) in the table below represent the base salaries for all positions at a given grade across the health system. Typically, a new hire can expect a starting salary somewhere in the lower part of the range. Actual salaries may vary by position and will be determined based on the candidate’s relevant experience. No employee will be paid below the minimum of the range. Pay ranges are listed as hourly for non-exempt employees and based on assumed full time commitment for exempt employees.

Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum

$47.14 - $54.19 - $64.11

Baystate Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status.