Manager Cath Lab

Are you looking for a rewarding career with family-friendly hours and top-notch benefits? We’re looking for qualified candidates like you to join our Texas Health family.

• Work location: Texas Health Heart and Vascular Hospital Arlington, TX
• Core work hours: Full Time (40 Hours); Monday-Friday 8:00a -5:00p

Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital is a separately licensed hospital located on the campus of Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital. We are a 47 bed facility including a 20 bed Cardiovascular ICU and a 27 bed cardiac telemetry unit. Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital is accredited for Chest Pain through The Joint Commission. We have achieved AHA’s Gold Plus award for five years in a row plus AHA’s Gold Plus award for Heart Failure, 5 Star rating by CMS, and Platinum Performance rating from ACC’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry. We specialize in CABG and Valve surgeries, thoracotomies, general cardiac including heart failure, cardiomyopathies, AMI, TAVR, Impella, and heart catheterizations including angioplasty, stenting, and electrophysiology studies.

Department Highlights

• Team based environment with a cardiac focus
• Excellent patient and staff satisfaction results
• Amazing collaborative culture within all departments

Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital has a rich history in North Texas serving the local communities of Arlington, Kennedale, Pantego, Mansfield and Grand Prairie. We’re a 369-bed, acute-care, full-service hospital serving our community since 1958. Our location in central Arlington provides convenient care to people in the DFW Metroplex and surrounding areas.

If you’re looking for comprehensive medical/surgical care, cancer care, women’s services, behavioral health, neurosciences and emergency medicine, we’ve got it. Plus, we’re a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, Level III Maternal Newborn care unit and a Level IV Trauma Center. We’re accredited by the American College of Surgeons as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Center and by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.

And talk about award winning. Texas Health Arlington Memorial is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, a Chest Pain Center and a Heart Failure Center. We’ve been recognized by the American Heart Association with a Gold Plus award for the exceptional care we provide to our stroke, heart failure and chest pain patients. We’re also a designated Magnet hospital! Our community members recently recognized us as the best emergency department in Arlington. And we’re recognized by Blue Cross/Blue Shield as a Blue Distinction Center for care of our patients receiving Hip and Knee Replacement and Spine Surgery procedures. We’re a top-notch choice in North Texas for cancer and emergency services, women’s health and much more.

As part of the Texas Health family, we employ over 26,000 employees and are among the top five largest employers in the DFW area. Join us and be a part of our exceptional team as we provide outstanding care and deliver award-winning results. You belong here.

Job Description

Management of Daily Department Activities
1. Uses behavior events interviewing method for interviews and selections of new employees
2. Oversees orientation, training and cross-training of new staff to department, assesses their ability to work independently, and communicates policies and procedures to staff
3. Implements and monitors performance evaluation procedures, establishes professional development goals, and counsels staff on an ongoing basis as appropriate
4. Establishes systematic workflow and communication among all areas of radiology and nursing, and ensures adequate coverage of all shifts including vacation schedules, absenteeism and turnover
5. Supervises all aspect of the department's operation in the absence of the Director
6. Works in conjunction with modality team leaders to update radiology policy and procedure manuals, emergency and disaster plans
7. Evaluates and updates all department job descriptions, conducts and reviews performance appraisal processes

Manages the Performance Improvement Process
1. Establishes, designs and monitors quality measurement activities for both patient related and technical quality control
2. Reviews technical standards on a regular basis and recommends changes as appropriate
3. Compiles and presents data from quality assurance programs as requested by Director
4. Identifies and recommends performance improvements
5. Investigates complaints, Situation and Unusual Occurrence reports regarding patient care utilizing age specific criteria
6. Cooperates and coordinates with other managers in facilitating communication flow and procedures between technical, clerical, support staff, students and other departments
7. Plans, coordinates and supervises projects including renovations

Manages the Quality Control Program
1. Arranges for service of equipment, monitors the suitability of repairs, and verifies documentation of equipment service report
2. Liaises with service companies to ensure routine equipment maintenance are completed
3. Ensures that standards of practice, technical quality, technique charts or protocols, patient and PACS documentation are correct
4. Ensures compliance with EPA, JCAHO, OSHA, TDH, and hospital and department standards for safety, infection control, department aesthetics and equipment performance.
5. Liaises with regulatory inspectors during their inspection of the department

Purchasing and Financial Responsibilities
1. Plans, initiates and approves all equipment service, purchase requisitions and invoices
2. Coordinates, processes, and analyzes equipment CER requests
3. Establishes and manages tracking mechanisms for cost analysis all department spending
4. Assists with using financial and material resources, prepares monthly statistical reports, projects patient volumes and forecasts revenue and expenses

Strategy, Collaboration and HRO:
Responsible for the implementation and evaluation of the Nursing Strategic Plan and for contributing to the Hospital Strategic Plan.
Responsible for facilitating the development of a unit specific plan that reflects the THR and entity strategy.
Participates in promoting collaborative staff/physician relationships to enhance physician engagement.
Responsible for participating and contributing to the community involvement/visibility of the hospital and entity.
Promotes culture of a Highly Reliable organization.
Instills fair and just culture?? one that supports an environment of transparency, reporting, learning, a safe and supportive system of shared accountability and holds self and staff accountable for the quality of their choices.

Education
Bachelor's Degree Nursing Required
Or
Associate's Degree Accredited school of Radiologic Technology Required

Experience
5 Years clinical experience Required
and
3 Years progressive leadership experience Required
Cath Lab Experience Strongly Preferred
EP experience Preferred
Nursing Experience Preferred

Licenses and Certifications
RN - Registered Nurse Upon Hire Required
Or
ARRT - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists Upon Hire Required
And
CMRT - Certified Medical Radiologic Technologist Upon Hire Required
And
ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support with in 90 Days of hire Required
And
BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly Required

Skills
Excellent communication skills, strategic thinking. high ethical satandards and professional image.
Sound management and technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, critical thinking, collaborative, able to relate to all levels.
Good educator willing to share information.
Conflict resolution skills.
Microsoft Office

Why Texas Health?

At Texas Health Resources, our mission is “to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve”.

We are one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit health systems in the United States with a team of more than 24,000 employees of wholly owned/operated facilities plus 2,200 employees of consolidated joint ventures in the greater Dallas Fort Worth area. Our career growth and professional development opportunities are top-notch and our benefits are equally outstanding.

Join our award-winning Texas Health family and become a part of a team that is improving the health of our communities daily. You belong here.

Here are a few of our recent awards:

• 2022 FORTUNE Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For®” (8th year in a row)
• A "Top 100 Places to Work" for 2021 by The Dallas Morning News (10th time)
• #1 as 2021 “20 Best Workplaces in Health Care and Biopharma” by Great Place to Work® and Fortune (7th consecutive year, 6th year as #1)
• “America’s Best Employers for Diversity” list by Forbes
• A “100 Best Workplaces for Millennials" by Fortune and Great Place to Work®
• A 2021 LinkedIn Top Companies in Dallas - Fort Worth list. This award recognizes the best workplaces for team members to grow their careers and honors companies that not only attract talent but also invest in the development of their employees.
  

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