Chief Echo Tech

Job Title: Chief Echo Tech Location: Main Hospital

• New Brunswick Department Name: Echo / Vascular Lab Req #: 0000268863 Status: Hourly Shift: Day Pay Range: $54.51 - $70.86 per hour Pay Transparency: The above reflects the anticipated hourly wage range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey. The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate#s educational background, skills and professional experience. Chief Echo Tech Our Chief Echo Tech leads our quality, education, and clinical excellence initiatives to promote optimal diagnostic clarity and advance cardiac care across our entire network. Balancing expert clinical practice (50% scanning) with professional development and leadership (50% teaching and operations), you will coordinate lab functions, spearhead research protocols, and maintain strict department QA guidelines. We view our imaging leadership as a critical cornerstone of the care plan, driving the protocols and mentorship that directly elevate patient outcomes. We hope you are excited by the opportunity to shape the future of diagnostic care through teamwork, compassion, and technical excellence! A Typical Day Performing advanced echocardiographic studies and specialized clinical procedures (50% scanning focus) with a heavy emphasis on Structural Heart, stress echocardiography, clinical research, cardiac amyloid, and other cardiology specialty programs. Functioning as the technical and clinical expert in sonography, ensuring strict compliance with scanning protocols across all specialty cases. Assisting Cardiologists directly with complex testing workflows while ensuring all examination results strictly meet facility quality assurance standards before final interpretation and findings are released. Supervising, mentoring, and supporting staff sonographers, providing direct technical, image quality, and accuracy oversight to elevate scanning accuracy across all patient populations. Accountable for the creation, oversight, implementation, and assessment of scanning protocols, quality control activities, and quality assurance protocols. Maintaining department Quality Assurance (QA) as set forth by ICAEL guidelines and actively driving the Medical Center#s Quality Improvement objectives and goals. Assisting in the development and implementation of research protocols, department policies, procedures, educational materials, and scientific publications. Overseeing the staff continuing medical education (CME) program and coordinating sonography research projects to ensure team skills, professional knowledge, and expertise remain at the leading edge of medicine. Providing strategic recommendations to the Medical Director and Administrative Director to enhance patient care and department advancement while supporting the leadership team with the coordination of operational functions of the Echo Lab. Ensuring strict corporate and regulatory compliance, maintaining environment of care safety standards, and ensuring satisfactory review outcomes with NJSDOH and JCAHO. This role might be for you if You are a passionate educator and clinical expert who thrives in a hybrid role blending high-level patient scanning with staff mentorship and development (50/50 split). You set an incredibly high bar for quality, possessing deep technical expertise in specialized workflows like Structural Heart, stress echocardiography, clinical research tracking, and cardiac amyloid programs. You collaborate seamlessly with executive leadership, Medical Directors, and frontline staff to optimize lab operations and align clinical goals. You are deeply committed to professional growth and lifelong learning, continually engaging in advanced sonography education, higher education, research, writing, or speaking. You proactively champion patient safety, environment of care standards, and ethical practice in every administrative and clinical decision. To be considered Graduate of an accredited Allied Health Cardiovascular Program (Bachelor#s Degree preferred). ARDMS or CCI Registration is required. An Advanced Cardiac Sonography credential is highly desired. A minimum of 10 years of Adult Echo experience is required. Extensive cardiac sonography education, training, and clinical experience in providing echocardiography services with a proven emphasis on Structural Heart, stress echocardiography, clinical research protocols, cardiac amyloid, and other specialty programs. Demonstrated leadership capability, including a proven track record of mentoring staff sonographers, developing quality assurance measures, and implementing clinical protocols.#