Neurodiagnostic Technologist

Concentric Methods is seeking a Neurodiagnostic Technologist (Sleep Technician) to join our team in Bethesda, MD in support of the NIH.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure patient/employee safety, and Quality Assurance
  
  - Triage and advise clinical staff on additional sleep testing parameters when other information may be useful or must be obtained to
  
  promote research goals
  
  - Perform daytime testing according to AASM Guidelines and established policies and procedures
  
  - Employ a high level of expertise regarding sleep peripheral sensors and their application to a specific patient population or category of
  
  patient when performing sleep studies
  
  - Score sleep studies within the AASM Service Directors guidelines; score all sleepstudies; prepare reports for review and interpretation
  
  by the Service Director
  
  - Troubleshoot all equipment; monitor the condition of diagnostic equipment and repairreplacement of the same; ensure patientemployee
  
  safety, and Quality Assurance
  
  - Ensure that scoring and reports provided by technicians and sleep technologists areconsistent, reliable and adhere to the same standards
  
  as outlined by the Service Director
  
  - Maintain availability by phone for technologists working at night to help troubleshoottechnical equipment needs, or other challenges
  
  that may arise during study acquisition
  
  - Score research data acquisitions
  
  - Periodically monitor other scored records to ensure that reliability is maintained
  
  - Perform polysomnographic recording based on individual patient requirement including,EEG lead and physiological monitoring
  
  placement or adjustment, monitoring legmovement, apnea, and sleep behavior
  
  - Design and implement workflow processes for ordering, scheduling and coordinatingsleep studies for the Sleep Service
  
  - Work with Sleep Service, nursing staff, protocol staff, NIH Clinical Center staff, andlaboratory staff to schedule sleep studies to ensure
  
  adequate staffing for sleep studypatients
  
  - Provide recommendations on recruitment of technical staff
  
  - Assist with quarterly Quality Assurance of Sleep technologist night staff
  
  - Assist staff with writing policies and procedures specific for the Sleep Service
  
  - Generate and maintain statistical reports to monitor department productivity and other key metrics