EKG Supervisor

Job Description:

The ECG Supervisor is a dual role combining leadership and clinical responsibilities. The Supervisor oversees the day-to-day operations of ECG staff and services including oversight of clinical quality and the financial performance of the department. This position also provides direct patient care including all duties of the ECG Technician, ECG Editor, and Holter Editor, as appropriate.

Posting Specifics:

• Benefits Eligible: Yes

• Shift Details: Monday-Thursday

• Hours: Full-Time 4x9hr

Essential Functions

• Participates in hiring, orienting, and training new employees, providing continuing education and in-services to caregivers.  Accountable for performance management including quarterly check-ins, coaching, and facilitating individual development plans under the direction of the manager.
• Coordinate caregiver schedules to coincide with patient volumes, while maintaining caseload.
• Ensure department and staff compliance with legal, accreditation, company standards, and policies.
• Problem solve clinical issues and patient, staff, and physician concerns.
• Use resources effectively and manage expenses to meet the financial goals of the department; assist with managing the department budget and meeting financial KPI’s.
• Work with the physician reading panel to help facilitate timely documentation and billing, and assist with training and troubleshooting of the EKG reading system.
• Monitor staff responsibilities such as ECG response time, order attachment/billing, equipment cleaning and logs, and communicating patient test results (e.g., scanning reports, message log). Ensure staff work together to keep the edit list clean and that all patient demographic information is correct.
• Drive team and quality improvement processes and initiatives. Look for better ways to perform lab duties to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and provide extraordinary patient care.
• Represent the department and ECG function in CV and other areas of the hospital.
• Participate in educational opportunities to ensure clinical competence, develop additional skills and knowledge, and improve leadership abilities.

Skills

• Cardiovascular System Proficiency
• EKG Competency
• Process Optimization
• Policy Interpretation  
• Patient Care
• Instructional Design
• Leadership
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Quality Assurance

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Current Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for Healthcare Providers.
• Demonstrated expertise in ECG/Ambulatory Telemetry Monitoring.
  - and –
• Demonstrated supervisory experience.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)
• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Intermountain Health LDS Hospital

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

36

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$24.30 - $37.52

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

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