"Cardiopulmonary/Pulmonary Function Technician - Pediatrics Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine"

Position Summary

Don't miss this opportunity to join our energetic and growing team at WashU Division of Pediatric Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine!

This group consists of 20 attending physicians, 9 fellow physicians, and 6 nurse practitioners. This position is in a pediatric outpatient setting and is full time patient facing.

The position performs pulmonary function testing on pediatric patients in the ambulatory clinical setting in accordance with ATS technical standards and guidelines. Testing primarily consists of outpatient pulmonary function testing and occasional inpatient testing. Pulmonary function test results are discussed with medical provider and are monitored by the supervisor and medical director of the pulmonary function lab. Additional responsibilities extend to patient scheduling, billing, annual fit testing, and cleaning, calibration, and quality control of all equipment.

This is a weekday, daytime position. No weekends and 10 University holidays!

Job Description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Always maintain patient privacy.
• Provide patients with clear and accurate information.
• Interacts with patients, staff, and physicians to ensure appropriate patient care and effective teamwork.
• Prepares, maintains, and calibrates PFT and lab equipment.
• Collects test samples, performs initial test analysis and advises staff on findings.
• Performs test such as spirometry, lung volumes, diffusion capacity, methacholine challenge, exercise challenge from bronchospasm, cardiopulmonary stress test, and other diagnostic test according to the American Thoracic Society (ATS) guidelines.
• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
• Assists in billing processes and data entry.
• Schedules patients for PFT appointments.
• Other duties as assigned.

Working Conditions:

Job Location/Working Conditions:

• Office setting
• Patient care setting
• Requires extensive safety training.
• Potential exposure to bodily fluids blood-borne pathogens.
• Exposure to chemicals.
• Requires protective devices

Physical Effort:

• Occasional lifting (25 lbs. or less).

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by the personnel so classified. Management reserves the right to revise or amend duties at any time.

Required Qualifications

Education: Associate degree

Certifications/Professional Licenses: The list below may include all acceptable certifications, professional licenses and issuers. More than one credential, certification or professional license may be required depending on the role. Basic Life Support - American Heart Association, Basic Life Support - American Red Cross, Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) - National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC), Respiratory Care Practitioner - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Respiratory Care Practitioner - Missouri Division of Professional Registration

Work Experience: No specific work experience is required for this position.

Skills: Not Applicable

Driver's License: A driver's license is not required for this position.

More About This Job

Required Qualifications:

• Basic Life Support certification must be obtained within one month of hire date.
• Basic Life Support certification (Online BLS certifications, those without a skills assessment component, are not sufficient to meet the BLS requirements).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in Pediatric PFT lab.
• Prior experience MGC Diagnostic Software- Breeze Suite.
• Prior Experience with Epic.
• Demonstrated effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Works well as part of a team.
• CPFT or RPFT credentials.

Grade

C12-H

Salary Range

$29.80 - $46.19 / Hourly The salary range reflects base salaries paid for positions in a given job grade across the University. Individual rates within the range will be determined by factors including one's qualifications and performance, equity with others in the department, market rates for positions within the same grade and department budget.