Position Summary
Responsible for supervising the daily operations of Diagnostic Cardiology including overseeing staff members and day-to-day operations required for a safe and efficient delivery of quality diagnostic testing. Responsible and accountable to the Director of the department and to the Medical Directors for assuring that the cardiology staff is trained appropriately and adequately equipped to produce high quality cardiac testing in accordance with the standards set forth by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), The Joint Commission (TJC), and the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC).
Essential Duties
- Manages/supervises and develops an effective staff: providing effective communication, leadership, guidance and resources. Determines staff qualifications and competency: recruits, interviews, selects, hires, trains, orients, mentors, evaluates, coaches, counsels, and disciplines, and rewards.
- Prepares staff schedules, including identification of the appropriate number of personnel for daily activity, making any necessary adjustments in assignments and schedules for the daily activity level.
- Monitors the quality of all testing results produced in diagnostic cardiology and assures that ACC, TJC and IAC standards are met or exceeded. Actively involved in departmental quality improvement and quality control.
- Serves as a role model in customer service for the department. Establishes and maintains effective working relationships and good customer service skills with patients, physicians, other health care providers.
- Troubleshoots for problems associated with patient techniques, equipment, scheduling conflicts, physicians, internal departments and outside vendors.
- Meets all compliance standards of the department and hospital to include: ACC, TJC, and TJC. Maintains a thorough employee file for each staff member. Oversee the development and editing of policies and procedures to meet compliance standards.
- Proactively strives to meet hospital and departmental productivity goals by being actively involved in the financial and budgetary targets of the department.
Competencies
- Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.
- Attention to Detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time. Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
- Building a Successful Team: Using appropriate methods and a flexible interpersonal style to help build a cohesive team, aligns vision with shared values, manages change and encourages innovation.
- Coaching and Teaching Others: Providing timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem.
- Collaboration/Teamwork: Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals; works with employees within and across his/her department to achieve shared goals; treats others with dignity and respect and maintains a friendly demeanor; values the contributions of others.
- Managing Conflict: Dealing effectively with others in an antagonistic situation; using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more people. Addresses conflicts by focusing on the issues at hand to develop effective solutions when disputes or disagreements occur; helps others resolve conflicts by providing impartial mediation when needed.
- Problem Solving: Uses issue identification, data relation and comparison, pattern recognition and information gathering to create analyses and make recommendations.
Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility
Manages 8-15 employees
Travel
None
Core Values
- Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.
- Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
- Be well groomed, appropriately for your role and wear ID Badge visibly.
- Be in compliance with all departmental and institutional policies, the Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and completes NetLearning by due date annually.
- Fosters an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the institution.
- Adheres to safe working practices and at all times follows all institutional and departmental safety policies and procedures.
- Wears appropriate PPE as outlined by the infection control policies and procedures.
- Demonstrates compliance with all state, federal and all other regulatory agency requirements.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: Associates Degree required. Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
- Work Experience: A minimum of three years leading the work of others.
- Special Training, Certification or Licensure: One of the following certifications is required: Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS), Clinical Exercise Physiologist (CEP), Registered Cardiac Invasive Specialist (RCIS), and Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) with cardiac background. BLS required.
Salary Range: $95,000 - $115,000
Benefits
At National Jewish Health, we recognize that our outstanding faculty and staff are the essence of our organization. For every aspect of health care, our employees are our greatest asset.
With that in mind, we have designed a valuable, comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and their families.
- Medical Plans, Dental Plans and Vision Insurance
- Retirement Plan
- FSA and HSA
- Short and Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance and AD&D
- Voluntary Benefits, like Accident Insurance, Critical Care and Hospital Indemnity
- Paid Time Off Accruals
- Wellness Program
- Legal Plan
