What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sonographer position at Inova Health System?
Inova Loudoun Hospital is looking for a dedicated Diagnostic Imaging Sonographer to join the team. This role is a Varied Shift Schedule: PRN (as needed)
Inova is consistently ranked as a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Featured Benefits and Incentives:
- Committed to Team Member Health: offering a robust team member wellness program.
- Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
- Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
- Career Development: Individual Development Planning that focuses on supporting team member aspirations.
Sonographer Job Responsibilities:
- The Sonographer provides clinical services according to ultrasound practice standards and acts as a resource to students, residents, fellows and other technologists to ensure optimal department functions.
- Communicates effectively with patients to obtain clinical history/informed consent from patients or patients' charts to assist physicians in optimizing the performance and interpretation of examinations.
- Explains procedures to patients/families and answers questions to ease anxiety and ensure patient cooperation.
- Completes ancillary tasks to ensure efficient and consistent departmental operations.
- Demonstrates safety for patients, staff, and self as outlined in department protocols and regulatory guidelines.
- Maintains equipment, exam rooms, and work areas in a neat and safe condition.
- Assists physicians in performing a variety of examinations by using standard department protocols, isolation precautions and/or sterile technique.
- May perform additional duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: Graduate of an accredited school of Diagnostic Medical Sonography.
- License: ARRT, ARDMS, RDMS or RVT registry eligible. Must be registry eligible and obtain certification within 18 months from date of hire.
- Certification: Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association upon start
- Experience: Recent experience in a hospital/healthcare environment as a sonographer or sonography student.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Prior experience as a Sonographer in a hospital/healthcare environment, preferred.
About Inova Health System
- We are Inova, Northern Virginia's leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 24,000 team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better - to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.
Inova's Anti-Discrimination Employment Policy
- Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.
As a recipient of federal financial assistance, Inova Health System (“Inova”) does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services or benefits under any of its programs or activities, whether carried out by Inova directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Inova arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This policy is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at 45 C.F.R. Parts 80, 84, 91 and 92, respectively.