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Manager Cardiovascular Imaging-Echo (Medical Center)

Houston Methodist

Houston, TX | Full Time

$210k-303k (estimate)

2 Months Ago

Manager Cardiovascular Imaging-Echo (Medical Center)

$210k-303k (estimate)

Full Time | Ambulatory Healthcare Services 2 Months Ago

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Houston Methodist is Hiring a Manager Cardiovascular Imaging-Echo (Medical Center) Near Houston, TX

At Houston Methodist, the Manager Cardiovascular Imaging position is responsible for functional and operational aspects of the cardiovascular imaging laboratory to include one or more of the following clinical areas: Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT, Nuclear Cardiology, Stress Testing, Pacemaker, EKG, Vascular Ultrasound and Echo Sonography. Provides leadership, guidance and direction to staff. Maintains accountability for level of unit performance and results. Responsible for quality, functional excellence and contribution to accomplishment of strategic and operational objectives.

The manager position responsibilities include managing the daily work activities of the work unit/department staff, ensuring quality, productivity, functional excellence and efficiency while assisting management in accomplishing strategic and operational objectives. In addition, this position provides guidance to staff and is responsible for staffing, budget compliance, contributing to staffing decisions such as hiring and terminating employment, coaching and counseling employees on work related performance, and assisting in the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure a safe and effective work environment. This position also implements training, monitoring and operations initiatives that secure compliance with ethical and legal business practices and accreditation/regulatory/ government regulations.

PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Performs management responsibilities of selection, scheduling, supervision, retention, and evaluation of employees in the department. Provides development and mentoring of staff. Meets or exceeds threshold goal for department turnover. Develops direct reports to perform these same functions.

Provides fair and consistent leadership and communication to maintain a competent and engaged employee group by conducting regular department meetings to review policies and procedures and operational matters, rounding on all employees, completing performance appraisals, conducting new hire feedback sessions, coaching/corrective counseling, and providing recognition/commendations to achieve desired outcomes. Provides timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem.

Facilitates and promotes effective team dynamics and teambuilding strategies within and between departments; participates and/or leads and facilitates department process improvements as needed.

Meets or exceeds threshold goal for department and/or system metrics on employee engagement indicators: action readiness score, tier level.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Plans and organizes day-to-day department operations, schedule and activities. Sets priorities and functional standards, giving direction to staff as necessary to ensure the best possible delivery of service and high customer/patient satisfaction.

Drives department service standards and activities to impact department and/or system score for patient/customer-based satisfaction, through role modeling and fostering accountability. Serves and actively participates on various entity committees as a voice for the department.

Makes and executes decisions within delegated authority. Works in conjunction with Administrator to provide resolution for issues as appropriate. Participates in resolving issues outside delegated scope of authority.

Maintains ongoing interactions with patients, families, physicians and staff on how to improve patient care and service provided.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Ensures a safe and effective working environment; monitors and/or revises the department safety plan and/or any specific accreditation/regulatory required safety guidelines, including infection control principles. Monitors and confirms staff maintain their required credentials that demonstrate competency per accrediting agency or department guidelines as applicable.

Uses and optimizes information systems to enhance operations; supports entity-specific performance improvement and data management/analysis functions.

Employs a proactive approach in the optimization of safe outcomes by monitoring and improving the department workflow, using peer-to-peer accountability, reporting near misses and/or adverse events immediately and identifying solutions via collaboration. Adopts lean principles in driving process improvements. Role models situational awareness, using teachable moments to improve safety.

Monitors self and employee compliance with policies, procedures, and System HR Standards of Practice and performs associated actions upon non-compliance (i.e., focal point review requirements, disaster plan, inservices, influenza immunization, wage and hour, standard hours, timely termination submission, timely timecard approval, etc.).

Ensures that unit consistently achieves desired outcomes for patient care, including high degree of patient and physician satisfaction.

Demonstrates initiative in identifying developmental needs of staff and taking appropriate action, including collaboration with unit educator.

FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Assists in the development of department budget and ensures that the department operates in a cost effective manner. Manages/audits department expenses within approved budget parameters, ensuring that the department meets the budgeted/flex revenue and/or expense targets on a monthly and annual basis. Develops staffing plans and schedules to meet department/patient care needs that reflect understanding of the importance of cost-effectiveness.

Implements department strategies to achieve financial target and staffing needs, developing others to do the same, through optimizing productivity, supply/resource efficiency, minimizing incidental overtime and overtime percentage, and other areas according to department specifications.

Participates in planning, budgeting and general management efforts for the Cardiology and Vascular Imaging Services department and stays within budget.

Develops staffing plans and schedules to meet patient care needs that reflect understanding of the importance of cost-effectiveness.

GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Identifies and implements innovative solutions for practice or workflow changes to improve department operations or other department-specific measures by leading unit projects and/or other department/system directed shared governance activities. Supports change initiatives, maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements or cultures.

Proactively evaluates processes; recommends and implements action plan(s) for change; follows through to ensure effective, sustainable change. Participates in the development and implementation of new procedures and the review and revision of existing procedures.

Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, and units to achieve business goals.

Seeks opportunities to identify developmental needs of self and staff and takes appropriate action. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates the individual development plan (IDP) on an on-going basis. Conducts conversations with staff on their development and IDP.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's required

Master's degree preferred

WORK EXPERIENCE

Five years of experience within the field, of which one year must have been in a managerial role in healthcare; for internals, four years of experience in relevant field with HM performance that demonstrates leadership abilities