Sleep Lab Manager

Texas Children's Hospital; Katy (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus seeks a Manager of the Sleep Lab to oversee clinical and research procedures, establish policies, ensure quality, and direct performance. Duties cover staff supervision, equipment maintenance, and coordinating with IDS projects while ensuring pediatric patient care from newborn to 21 years.

The role requires a high school diploma or GED, a valid RPSGT certification, and at least 5 years of technical experience with 2 years in supervision and lab management.

Qualifications

• Required high school diploma or GED.
• RPSGT certification required by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists.
• Minimum 5 years of technical experience, including 2 years in supervision and lab management.

Responsibilities

• Develops and continually monitors QA standards.
• Monitors employee performance and department guidelines.
• Manages daily operational activities and scheduling.
• Supervises daily procedure schedule and prioritizes requests.
• Ensures safe operation of equipment and manages supplies.
• Provides patient care and staff education; leads program growth.
• Collaborates to meet accreditation and regulatory requirements.

Education

H.S. Diploma or GED

RPSGT - Reg Polysomnographic Technologist

Job description

Job Description

Job Description We’re looking for a Manager of the Sleep Lab, someone who’s ready to grow with our company. In this position you will manage all clinical and research procedures of department by establishing policies and procedures, setting standards and objectives for provision of services, maintaining quality improvement, and directing, planning, and evaluating performance. To ensure all job duties are performed developmentally appropriate for patients' ages (newborn to 21 years).

Job Description We’re looking for a Manager of the Sleep Lab, someone who’s ready to grow with our company. In this position you will manage all clinical and research procedures of department by establishing policies and procedures, setting standards and objectives for provision of services, maintaining quality improvement, and directing, planning, and evaluating performance. To ensure all job duties are performed developmentally appropriate for patients' ages (newborn to 21 years).

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Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops and continually monitors QA standards.
• Monitors employee performance in accordance with established department and IDS guidelines.
• Manages daily operational activities.
• Supervises daily procedure schedule by reviewing initial appointment schedule, accepting, and prioritizing add-on and inpatient requests.
• Adjusts workload to changes in schedule.
• Monitors and orders supplies.
• Ensures the safe and proper functioning of all equipment.
• Interacts with vendors; participates in the selection, testing, and application of new instrumentation.
• Provides patient care.
• Provides direct supervision of the technical staff.
• Represents clinic and technical staff when responding to needs and concerns) Provides and coordinates staff education.
• Provides strategic leadership for program growth in Sleep Lab Expansion and programmatic growth.
• Participates in various IDS projects as appropriate.
• Attends continuing education workshops, seminars, and in-services and fulfills all mandatory education requirements as documented on the staff development register.
• Strives to achieve the goal of accreditation with commendation through the following:
• Ensures that JCAHO requirements specific to your department are fulfilled but also understands the linkage between your department’s requirements and those of the integrated delivery system.
• Collaborates with colleagues in other departments to ensure all JCAHO requirements are met.
• Ensures that AASM requirements are tracked, reported, and met for the department.

Skills & Requirements

• Required H.S. Diploma or GED
• Required RPSGT - Reg Polysomnographic Technolog by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists
• Required 5 years of technical experience, including 2 years of supervisory experience of technical personnel and general laboratory management

About Us

Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus is Houston’s first community hospital designed, built and equipped exclusively for children in one of the city’s most rapidly growing communities in the area from Sugar Land to Bryan-College Station, Texas. Located at I-10 and Barker Cypress, our 515,007-square-foot hospital houses the only 24/7 pediatric emergency room in the Greater West Houston area, four operating rooms, 16-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 46 acute care beds, advanced imaging services including MRI and CT scans, a neurophysiology sleep lab, a pathology lab and a full-scale pharmacy.

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Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.