Echocardiogram Tech

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services.

Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services.

We are recruiting for the following position:
Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization Position Summary The Echocardiogram Technologist (Cardiac Sonographer) is responsible for obtaining high quality recordings of ultrasound images of the heart and related structures to be interpreted by the Cardiologist. The echo tech will be tasked with completing resting echocardiogram and complete stress echocardiogram as required. This is a technical position requiring a highly skilled operator with knowledge of the various types of ultrasound procedures.

Work situations may require clinical interpretive knowledge, independent judgement, initiative, and ingenuity in performing procedures. This position will interact with patients, family members, and physicians as well as schedulers, MA’s and cardiologist on staff.

As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered, culturally-aware services. Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an excellent client experience by:

• Understanding and empathizing with client needs
• Surpassing client expectations
• Demonstrating a high level of integrity
• Exhibiting compassion and commitment
• Advocating for social justice
• Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
• Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.

Using standardized protocols as a baseline, performs cardiovascular ultrasound diagnostic procedures:

• Thoroughly explains procedure to be performed; facilitates patients' cooperation; anticipate, meet and exceed expectations and reduce anxiety of our patients with AIDET (Acknowledge – Introduce – Duration – Explanation – Thank You).
• Obtains patient history before procedure; accurately documents all relevant information; obtains all other diagnostic information needed to enhance interpretation of the exam.
• Confirm patient identity, referring physician, and reason for the exam.
• Complete ultrasound exam accurately and timely, adapting protocol according to degree and type of pathology encountered, while adhering to standards of Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) for Echocardiography for both complete resting echocardiogram and stress (exercise treadmill) echocardiogram.
• Observes patient during the exam, monitoring patient’s condition and safety.

Performs quality control (weekly) and cleaning procedures (daily) on all equipment:

• Performs daily maintenance such as sanitizing the transducers, cables, beds, or other items as needed after each patient.
• Works with Sea Mar IT to help performs weekly and monthly maintenance such as filter…