Covenant Health

Cath Lab Manager, Heart Cath Lab

Full Time, 80 Hours Per Pay Period, Day Shift

Fort Sanders Regional Overview:

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is an award-winning, certified, and accredited facility with 468 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:

Responsible for daily clinical operations of cardiac procedures to include invasive and non-invasive procedures. 

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

• Responsible for quality patient care in all Cath Lab and Cardiology functions.
• Participates in equipment planning, staffing and uniformity of clinical cardiac services for Covenant Health.
• In conjunction with OL, serves as a public relations liaison in dealing with scope of cardiology services availability and offerings.
• Acts as a liaison to cardiologists to effectively coordinate procedures, scheduling and staffing between Cardiology and the Cath Lab.
• Maintain and enhance expertise in Cardiology testing methods and procedures.
• Promote cultural change to develop and support the team approach to deliver patient care in the Clinical Services division.
• Facilitate development of success measures, to include leadership, facilitator and team member implementation of long and short term goals for department teams.
• Develop, review and update department specific policies and procedures.
• Monitor and maintain department compliance to meet all regulatory agency requirements.
• Provide personnel management to include staff placement, discipline, interview and orientation in conjunction with OL.
• Implement and assess individual/team performance appraisal and career ladder.
• Assure daily operations are performed to include; staffing, interdisciplinary meetings, department statistics, payroll, charges, and inventory.
• Assess capital equipment/supply needs and make recommendations.
• Act as a liaison to patients and other customers to provide timely and accurate communication and problem resolution.
• Act as a primary contact of vendors for product evaluation and recommendation.
• Coordinate daily staffing plan based on workload and skill mix
• Participate in development and implementation of education and in-service programs for staff, students and other departments.
• Collaborate with others to determine product standardization as needed.
• Maintain department and clinical functions through team based employee empowerment.
• Supports creativity, independent thinking, empowerment and flexibility among team members.
• 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.

Minimum Education:

one 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. Associate's degree is required within three years of hire into position. Bachelor preferred.

Minimum Experience:

Four (4) years Cath Lab experience required. 

Licensure Requirement:

Must be a registered cardiovascular technologist, RN or registered radiology technologist.