Echocardiography Technician II

• Echocardiography Technician II Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses.
• City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix.
• Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
• We are seeking a Echocardiography Technician II!
• Our Echo Tech II uses high frequency sound waves (ultrasound), and other noninvasive echocardiography testing equipment to produce images of the heart.
• These procedures require specialized knowledge and skills in support of the provision of diagnostic and/or therapeutic services to specified patient population.
• As a successful candidate, you will: Perform Echocardiogram, carotid and peripheral vascular studies, use non-invasive procedure, to examine heart valves, chambers, and blood vessels to produce images.
• Evaluate the various valves and chambers of the heart and makes appropriate measurements.
• Perform imaging and non-imaging cardiovascular evaluations which may include exercise tolerance tests, electrocardiograms, stress tests, and transesophageal echocardiography.
• Obtain patient history, explains procedure to patient, addresses patients’ concerns, and follows established pre-screening.
• Determine appropriate methodology and techniques to use: arrange immobilization and/or support devices for proper patient positioning: selects appropriate imaging device Recognize potentially serious conditions (e.g., pericardial effusion, intracardiac tumor, thrombi, etc) and brings it to the attention of the physician.
• Maintain echocardiography and other equipment in efficient operating order; may perform minor preventative maintenance; contacts outside service for major malfunctions.
• Maintain inventory control, storage, and routing of supplies.
• Other duties in department as assigned.

Your qualifications should include

• Associated degree in Cardiovascular Ultrasound Post High School Vocational/Specialized Training 2 years’ experience performing M-mode and 2-dimensional echocardiograms, as well as Doppler studies American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS), and/or Register Cardiac Sonography (RCS) from Cardiovascular credentialing international (CCI) BLS CPR Card from the American Heart Association