Posted: 04-Jan-23
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 20737

You.
You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Sonographer.
Your compassion is tangible: patients feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support.
Youâ™re equally comfortable with operating/maintaining ultrasound imaging and related equipment and educating patients on ultrasound procedures.
Youâ™re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.
Us.
SCL Health Medical Group is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. With locations throughout Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, we offer a wide variety of primary and specialty care services.
Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.
We.
Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.
Weâ™ll laugh at each otherâ™s jokes (even the bad ones). Weâ™ll hello and high five. Weâ™ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.
Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.
Your day.
As a Sonographer you need to know how to:
- Produce high quality ultrasound images and obtain appropriate measurements for each exam.
- Recognize the sonographic appearance of normal and abnormal tissue structures and provide the best image quality for documentation.
- Document all applicable patient and procedure data consistently and correctly.
- Obtain and evaluate pertinent patient history and physical findings that may affect the sonographic examination.
- Explain procedures adequately to patients to maximize patient comfort and cooperation.
- Monitor during all phases of procedure with special care taken to insure patient emotional and physical well-being.
- Communicate patient information in a professional and courteous manner to patients and to referring physician offices as required.
- Maintain the ultrasound equipment for cleanliness and ensure proper equipment maintenance and equipment safety.
- Calibrate and maintain equipment and order supplies when needed.
- Schedule and coordinate tests.
- Prepare and maintain operational logs.
- Assist with Quality Assurance/Improvements audits and activities as required.
Your experience.
We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:
- Graduate of an accredited school of Diagnostic Sonography program, required
- Minimum of one (1) current/valid certification from the following list, required:
- Registry-eligible
- American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS) certification with Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS)
- Registered Vascular Technologist (RVT)
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS) credential
- Minimum of two (2) years of related sonography experience, required
Your next move.
Now that you know more about being a Sonographer on our team we hope youâ™ll join us. At SCL Health youâ™ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.
