Job Description
Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Cardiac Sonographer Pediatrics
**Job Summary and Qualifications**
The Pedi Echo tech performs transthoracic echocardiogram studies, to include 2D, M-Mode, Doppler, Color Doppler studies, bubble studies, stress echocardiograms, and other cardiology procedures assigned as well as Transesophageal Echocardiogram studies on Pediatric and Adolescent patient populations in a safe manner. Maintains echo lab protocols and accreditation standards. Technicians will have technical skill of studies as well as instrumentation, maintenance of equipment function and safety policy and procedure. Echo services are available 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, and communicates effectively with other members of the department as well as other departments throughout the facility
**What you will do in this role:**
+ Independently performs all Types of Pediatric and Adolescent Echocardiograms, for Echo
+ Assures Proper Patient Assessment to Ensure Most Optimal Study.
+ Demonstrates Proficiency When Operating All Equipment - Records and Prepares Studies for Physician Review/Enter Charges Correctly
+ Participates in Departmental Performance Improvement Program
+ Fullfills On-Call Responsibility
**What qualifications you will need:**
+ Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
+ Vocational School Graduate
+ (RCS) Registered Cardiac Sonographer, or (RVS) Registered Vascular Specialist
No Travel Required
1 years experience Required Years of Experience
**Benefits**
HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
+ **Comprehensive benefits** for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
+ **Wellbeing support,** including free counseling and referral services
+ **Time away from work** programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
+ **Savings and retirement resources** , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
+ **Education support** through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
+ **Additional benefits** for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)
**_Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location._**
HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/hca-houston-healthcare-northwest) is a **415+ bed acute care hospital** that has been serving the north Houston communities for more than 40 years, providing a wide range of medical services including cardiology, maternity care, **Level III NICU** , pediatrics, bariatrics and neurology. We comprehensively serve our community by employing expert physicians, specialists, nurses and support staff who work together as a unified team to offer a range of diagnostic treatment and support services. From our 24-hour emergency department with **Level II Trauma** capabilities, to women's services, to cardiology, we are dedicated to improving the health of our community by delivering exceptional, personalized healthcare. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Cardiac Sonographer Pediatrics opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. **We are interviewing - apply today!**
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.