EEG Tech - Full-Time Float Pool

70 HonorHealth Support Services; United States; On-site; USD 44,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

HonorHealth is seeking an EEG Technician for multiple Phoenix-area locations. This full-time day-shift Float Pool role involves 4x10-hour shifts, with a $2,500 sign-on bonus available. You will perform standard and complex EEGs, apply electrodes, calibrate equipment, and record responses while ensuring patient safety and quality data.

Qualified candidates typically have a high school diploma or GED and EEG-related training or_on-the-job experience. BLS certification is required or preferred.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required
• Completion of an 11-month EEG training program or 6 months on-the-job training
• Graduate of an EEG program or 12 months on-the-job training

Responsibilities

• Performs standard and complex EEGs using the 10-20 system and applies electrodes
• Calibrates EEG equipment, obtains recordings, and uses activation procedures like hyperventilation or photic stimulation
• Maintains equipment and inventories, interprets data, and documents patient status and history

Job description

Primary City/State: Various Locations – Phoenix, AZ Category: Imaging Shift: Day Department: Network EEG Float Pool Full-time day shift, 4x10-hour shifts - Float Pool position $2500 Sign-On Bonus available

Great care starts with great people. (Like you.) At HonorHealth, you’ll find something special. From humble beginnings in 1927 to one of Arizona’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems, our culture is built on warmth and neighborly kindness. Behind every smile is a highly skilled professional with deep expertise and an unwavering dedication to what matters most — caring for the health and well-being of people and communities across the greater Phoenix area.

Responsibilities:

JOB SUMMARY The EEG TECHNICIAN position performs standard and complex electroencephalographic (EEG) procedures, Electro cerebral Silence (ECS) recordings to determine suspected brain death, Full Battery Evoked Response procedures, Computer Spectral Array of EEG activity, and Electromyography (EMG). The staff member must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients being served in the EEG department. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development for each age group. The individual must possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status, and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his or her age specific group.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Performs standard and complex EEGs by measuring the patient’s head, utilizing the International 10-20 Placement System, and applies electrodes to appropriate positions. Measures electrode impedance, calibrates and adjusts EEG machine. Obtains recordings, using activating procedures such as hyperventilation, photic stimulation, and sleep. Adapts methods and instrumentation to obtain optimal results based on history, clinical observations and EEG findings. Maintains equipment, and inventory of supplies. Reorders as necessary. Detects instrument malfunction, makes minor maintenance adjustments, or reports need for major repairs to Clinical Engineering. Records routine clinical computer-averaged electrical responses to visual, auditory, somatosensory, or other stimuli with evoked response equipment. Recognizes any EP signal change due to electrical artifact, anesthetic effects, temperature, position or perfusion and determines the significant influences of any surgical events on the signal. Implements alternative methods or adjusts acquisition parameters to obtain optimal recordings. Provides appropriate patient care and detailed observations of clinical manifestations during seizures and other patient emergency situations. Summarizes the patient’s neurologic status and clinical history from the chart, patient, or other knowledgeable persons. Explains the recording procedures to the patient and any family members present. Performs comprehensive analysis of raw and processed EEG using compressed spectral array (CSA).

EDUCATION

High School Diploma or GED Required Other / Certificate Completion of 11-month EEG training program OR 6 months on the job training Required Other / Certificate Graduate of an EEG program or 12 months on-the job training. Preferred Technical Training Diploma/Degree Vocational/Specialized training Preferred

EXPERIENCE

None except as indicated in Basic Education Required

LICENSE AND CERTIFICATIONS

Basic Life Support (BLS) - Certification Required Registered EEG Technician - Certification R-EEG-T certificate. Preferred

We're all in for your career. Expert care from experts who care. At HonorHealth, you’ll find something special. Our culture is built on warmth and neighborly kindness, but behind every smile is a highly skilled professional with deep expertise and unwavering dedication.

We’re delivering a healthcare experience that simply feels better through:

• Nine acute-care hospitals
• Over 200 primary, specialty and urgent care centers
• More than 17,000 team members and 4,000 medical staff

Since 1927, we’ve been focused on doing what matters most — caring for people and communities across the greater Phoenix area. From humble beginnings to one of Arizona’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems, we’re just as driven as we were a century ago. Come join us and go all in for your career.

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