This position will work 3 12-hour overnight shifts from 7pm-7am with one Friday per month with no holidays.
The Sleep Tech role offers up to a $10,000 Sign on Bonus, a career ladder, competitive pay and full time benefits! Apply today!
Sleep Techs are eligible for a $5,000 with a 2-year commitment to UPMC and Senior Sleep Techs $10,000 with a 2-year commitment to UPMC.
Title/salary will be determined at time of offer and will be commensurate with experience. Requirements/Pay range listed are for Sleep Tech title. Senior Sleep Tech title starts at $25.40/hour.
Purpose
A sleep technologist is a registered position who works under the direct supervision of the lead sleep technologist in partnership with department administrative and medical management. A registered sleep technologist can perform all basic sleep lab functions with regard to in-center and out-of-center sleep testing with therapeutic interventions and direct patient education.
Responsibilities
- While utilizing critical thinking and following department policy and procedure under direct supervision of medical director or designee, including lead and senior sleep technologists
- Sleep study preparation: Including but not limited to review of patient chart, testing order, and proper patient identification.
- Sleep study set up: Including the application of electrodes and sensors according to AASM recommendations with explanation of testing procedure to patient.
- Sleep study procedure: Perform all aspects of in-center study acquisition with a focus on quality, while delivering exceptional patient care. Perform all aspects of out-of-center study acquisition with a focus on quality, while delivering exceptional patient care. Analyze and score sleep studies. Clean equipment and patient rooms. Perform routine equipment maintenance and care. Inventory and restock lab supplies.
- Demonstrate continued scoring competency with adequate completion of monthly AASM ISR requirement.
- Performs all duties in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
About the company
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UPMC Mercy Health Center is a medical practice company based out of 1515 LOCUST ST, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. A $24 billion health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centered, cost-effective, accountable care. The largest nongovernmental employer in Pennsylvania, UPMC integrates more than 92,000 employees, 40 hospitals, 800 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, and a more than 4 million-member Insurance Services Division, the largest medical insurer in western Pennsylvania. In the most recent fiscal year, UPMC contributed $1.5 billion in benefits to its communities, including more care to the region’s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution, and paid more than $900 million in federal, state and local taxes. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialization arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International. U.S. News consistently ranks UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside among the nation’s best hospitals in many specialties and ranks UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on its Honor Roll of Best Children’s Hospitals. For more information, go to UPMC.com.