Sleep Study Technologist

To show our commitment to you and to assist with your transition into our organization, we will also offer up to $4000 in relocation assistance.

You.

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Polysomnographic / Sleep Technologist.

Your compassion is tangible: whether your patient is 18 or 85, they feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support.

You know when to move quickly. When to sit quietly. When to laugh loudly.

You’re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.

Us.

St. Vincent Healthcare is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 286-bed level II trauma center has provided care in Montana and the surrounding area since 1898, and our 30-clinic network ensures community needs are met. We offer comprehensive, specialty care, including a “hospital within a hospital” specifically for children, and are proud to extend SCL Health’s missions by treating the poor, the vulnerable, our community and each other.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

We.

Together we’ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. We’ll honor each other’s dignity and surpass the standards we set. We’ll encourage joy, demand safety and take pride in our integrity.

We’ll laugh at each other’s jokes (even the bad ones). We’ll hello and high five. We’ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

We’re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day.

As a Polysom / Sleep Tech, you need to know how to:

•  Perform and evaluate Polysomnograms-related procedures as directed by the patient's physician, recognizing sleep-induced changes
• Administer sleep medications ordered by provider
• Provide patient education regarding indications for use of medications and any adverse side effects
• Document patient assessment and medications given in patient chart and in daily medication controlled substance log
• Perform patient education and instruction appropriate for out of center sleep testing
• Provide patient education utilizing sleep center specific protocols
• Triage all home care related questions and needs to the appropriate entity (physician, sleep center, home care company)
• Act as a liaison between the patient, home care company and sleep center to ensure continuity of care
• Apply and utilize specialized instruments to record artifact-free electrical potentials from the brain, eyes, skeletal muscle and other physiological parameters
• Frequently interface polysomnograph system with positive airway pressure equipment for positive airway pressure titrations against respiratory events, oxygen desaturations, and arousals
• Recognize and respond to critical events that can occur in sleep, such as cardiac arrhythmias, seizure disorders and other medical emergencies
• Perform analysis of polysomnographic recordings, which includes scoring sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines
• Prepare and generate detailed reports of sleep architecture, cardiac, respiratory and other physiologic events recorded through the night/day time hours
• Assess charts for complete patient information and verify physician orders prior to procedure(s), assure additional forms are signed and witnessed, complete procedure patient charges
• Document all patient actions and observations and complete patient digital information panels
• Participate in monthly interscorer reliability program, maintaining an 85% overall score

Your experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

•  Current RPSGT credentialing OR Current MT Respiratory Care Practitioner license OR current R.EEG.T credentialed OR must possess a certificate of completion from a CAAHEP-accredited Polysomnographic technology program within 12 months of hire   
• Current Basic Life Support Certification
• Ability to achieve the RPSGT credential and/or license as a Respiratory Care Practitioner within 18 months of employment in the Sleep Center
• Ability to communicate effectively and diplomatically within a multi-functional team

Your next move.

Now that you know more about being a Polysom / Sleep Tech on our team we hope you’ll join us. At St. Vincent Healthcare you’ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.