Fetal Intervention Sonographer - Ob/Gyn Fetal Center

Fetal Sonographer

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas' resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That's where you come in.

Join our specialized Fetal Center team and play a critical role in caring for high-risk pregnancies with fetal anomalies. In this advanced sonography role, you will perform specialized fetal ultrasounds, support fetal intervention and clinic procedures, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team in a challenging, rewarding perioperative environment that offers the unique opportunity to assist with fetal surgical procedures.

Once you join us you won't want to leave. It's because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you'd expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you'll accrue!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees' wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...

• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!

Position Summary:

Provides high-level maternal fetal sonographic functions (vascular technology, obstetrics/gynecology, echocardiography, neurosonography). Provide sonographic support during intraoperative fetal interventions and fetal surgeries.

Position Key Accountabilities:

• Perform high-level obstetrical ultrasounds, nuchal translucency studies; fetal doppler studies (umbilical artery & middle cerebral artery), fetal biophysical profile testing, transvaginal sonography, heart disease and cranial blood flow screening.
• Scrubs fetal surgical procedures to include, but not limited to Laser for TTTS, IUT, IPT blood transfusion, Open and Fetoscopic NTD repairs, Bladder drainage and shunt placement, thoracentesis and shunt placement, bipolar cord coagulation, radiofrequency ablation, amniotic band release, vein of Galen coiling, interstitial laser ablation, Fetoscopic balloon placement and removal, needle guided balloon puncture, vasa previa laser ablation, EXIT procedure and maintains sterile technique. Provides fetal cardiac monitoring during intraoperative fetal surgical procedures and in office fetal procedures.
• Attends continuing education seminars to stay abreast of technological advances.
• Provides an initial written and verbal report of ultrasound finding to aid in the diagnostic process to faculty.
• Performs fetal echocardiograms under the guidance of pediatric cardiologist to aid in the diagnosis of complex congenital heart defects and rhythm anomalies.
• Participates in data collection for research and actively mentors junior sonographers, fetal center staff, Maternal Fetal Medicine staff, Fetal Intervention fellow, and Pediatric Cardiology Fellows.
• Maintains a clean workspace and properly cleans/sterilizes equipment between each use and performs basic maintenance on equipment to assure proper working conditions
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills:

• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS) by American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) required
• Fetal Echocardiography (FE) by American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) within two years of employment required

Minimum Education:

Graduate of an AMA-approved school of Radiologic Technology or its equivalent.

Minimum Experience:

Two (2) years' experience in experience in OB, diagnostic maternal/fetal ultrasound required.

Physical Requirements:

Exerts up to 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 50 pounds frequently and/or up to 20 pounds constantly to move objects.

Security Sensitive:

This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code 51.215 and Texas Government Code 411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code 117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. 791.4.

Residency Requirement:

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.