COORD CARDIOVASCULAR INV SVCS - Covenant Health

Coordinator Cardiovascular Invasive Services, Heart Cath Lab

Full Time, 80 Hours Per Pay Period, Day Shift

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is an award-winning, certified, and accredited facility with 541 beds. As a Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center, Fort Sanders offers state-of-the art care that maximizes recovery from stroke.  We are also the region’s leader in technology in areas such as bariatric surgery, robotic surgery and minimally invasive spine surgery. Our door-to-balloon times for heart attack patients are below the national average, and our hip fracture center offers advanced diagnosis, surgery and recovery procedures for hip patients.

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is a member of Covenant Health, a locally-owned, non-profit health system based in Knoxville, TN, with a “patient-focused” culture. It has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as its 2020 “Best-in-State-Employer” for Tennessee. The CEO of our company, Jim VanderSteeg, attends every new employee orientation and will ask you to sign our pledge of excellence to always put patients first, strive for excellence in everything we do, and make Covenant Health the first and best choice for patients in our region. As you’d expect, we offer our employees a robust benefits package, including: offering unmatched medical insurance, tuition reimbursement; student loan repayment assistance, certification bonuses; leadership and professional development programs; an employer-matched 401(k); and a generous Combined Time Off (CTO) program.

Position Summary:

Under direction of the department manager, is responsible for daily clinical operations of cath lab and/or special procedures. This incumbent is expected to exercise independent judgment and discretion in performing the duties below.

Recruiter: Jennifer Gordon || jgordon2@covhlth.com || 865-374-8107

• Performs all duties of a cath lab RN or CV Tech.
• Responsible for quality patient care in Cath Lab and/or special procedures.
• Participates in equipment planning, staffing and uniformity of cath lab and special procedures.
• Serves as a public relations liaison in dealing with scope of cardiology services availability and/or special procedures.
• With manager, acts as a liaison to cardiologists to effectively coordinate procedures, scheduling and staffing between Cardiologists and the Cath Lab /special procedures.
• Maintains and enhances expertise in Cardiology testing methods and procedures.
• Promotes cultural change to develop and support the team approach to deliver patient care in the cath lab and special procedures.
• Facilitates development of success measures, to include facilitator and team member implementation of long and short-term goals for department teams.
• Develops reviews and updates department specific policies and procedures.
• Monitors and maintains department compliance to meet all regulatory agency requirements.
• In collaboration with the department manager, provides personnel management to include staff placement, discipline, interviews and orientation.
• Assess individual/team performance appraisal and career ladder.
• Assures daily operations are performed to include: staffing, interdisciplinary meetings, department statistics, payroll, charges, and inventory.
• Acts as a liaison to patients and other customers to provide timely and accurate communication and problem resolution.
• Acts as a primary contact of vendors for product evaluation and recommendation.
• Coordinates daily staffing ratios based on workload and staff.
• Participates in development and implementation of education and in-service programs for staff, students and other departments.
• Collaborates with others to determine product standardization as needed.
• Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
• Demonstrates clinical/technical competency by maintaining professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, professional organizations and affiliations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Education:

None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.

Minimum Experience:

Minimum of two (2) years cath lab or special labs experience required.

Licensure Requirement:

Must be a registered cardiovascular technologist (RCIS), RN or registered radiology technologist (ARRT).