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Medical Instrument Technician (ECHOCARDIOGRAPH)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 47 days ago
On-site Iowa City, IA $85K – $111K Apply by Aug 13, 2026 Medical Instrument Technician ESTJESTPISFPISTP Trades
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The Echocardiography (ECHO) Medical Instrument Technician (MIT) functions as a member of the Cardiology multidisciplinary team. ECHO technicians operate diagnostic equipment to graphically record the position and motion of the heart walls, or the ultrasonic waves directed through the chest wall. Echocardiography technicians at this level are competent, with specialized advanced knowledge and function expertly in all aspects of the Echocardiography Laboratory.
What You'll Do
- →This is an Open Continuous Announcement and can close sooner that the date posted All qualifying experience you possess must be clearly described in your application package.
- →We will not make assumptions when reviewing applications.
- →Failure to clearly demonstrate your experience in your application package may result in disqualification.
- →All applicants are encouraged to submit responses to each Knowledge, Skill, and Ability (KSA) on a separate document.
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major duties include, but are not limited to the following: Knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the heart and great vessels.
- →Knowledge of cardiac arrhythmias and their relationship to hemodynamic conditions of the cardiac cycle.
- →Knowledge of basic cardiac ultrasound physics and the acoustic mechanisms by which high quality cardiac images are obtained.
- →Knowledge of the more complex examination and treatment procedures and techniques in order to provide training and supervision in these procedures, to evaluate and initiate performance improvement projects, and to write policies, procedures, and protocols, that pertain to Echocardiograph.
- →Ability to produce diagnostic quality images and Doppler frequency shift recordings using M-mode, two-dimensional, pulsed and continuous wave Doppler spectral display, and colorflow Doppler imaging.
- →Knowledge of normal echocardiographic findings and deviations produced by a wide variety of cardiovascular diseases.
- →Ability to perform more complex procedures such as cardiac studies of all four chambers of the heart and valves using sector scanning techniques to detect stenotic and incompetent valves, chamber enlargement, and pericardial effusion and cardiovascular studies deriving pressure gradients across obstructed valves, etc.
- →Knowledge of the set-up for transesophageal echocardiograms.
- →Ability to set up and adjust the ultrasound equipment to meet the conditions of the examination and the patient and to operate the equipment for more complex, but standardized procedures.
- →Ability to interact with patients explaining procedures and positioning the patient for the procedure.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
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