Senior Sleep Technician

Title: Senior Sleep Technician

Location: Upper East Side

Org Unit: Sleep Medicine

Work Days: Weekdays and some weekends

Weekly Hours: 35.00

Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Salary Range: $42.14 - $46.70

• As required under NYC Human Rights Law Int 1208-2018 - Salary range for this role when Hired for NYC Offices

Position Summary

A sleep technologist works under the general supervision of the Associate Director or designee to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders, including in-center sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, comprehensive patient care, and direct patient education. A sleep technologist can perform the duties defined for a sleep technician and can provide oversight of other sleep center staff.

Job Responsibilities

• Confirm demographic data for patients and/or input patient information into the patients chart on the polysomnogram system.
• Follow procedural protocols to ensure the collection of appropriate data.
• Perform appropriate physiological calibrations to ensure proper signals and make required adjustments.
• Perform data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free. Identify, correct, and document artifacts
• Document routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.
• Implement appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc)
• Able to monitor and administer treatment to complex patients that require advanced management, which includes but is not limited to ASV and IVAPs titrations.
• Provides training to junior technologists and PSG interns
• Assists in quality control initiatives for the lab

Education

• Graduate from a CoaPSG accredited program or NYS-approved equivalent
• Maintain 50 CEUs every five years

Experience

Minimum 5 years of experience as a Sleep Technologist.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and safety and infection control standards
• Perform routine equipment care and maintenance and inventory evaluation.
• Evaluate sleep study-related equipment and inventory.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze complex situations and apply policy.
• Assist the medical director and/or manager in all aspects of sleep center operations.

Licenses and Certifications

• NYS Polysomnographic Technologist Licensure.
• NYS Polysomnographic Technologist Registration
• BLS Certification (issued by the American Heart Association)

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

This position requires night work in an outpatient clinical laboratory environment with close patient contact.

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