Certified EKG technician

Join our Heart Station team at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and join our Cardiology team in providing excellence in patient care!

Position Highlights:

• Schedule: Full time, 40 hours, weekdays, 8a-5p, Monday through Friday.
• Location: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Heart Lab in Winston-Salem, NC

What You Will Do: 

Provides all cardiac related procedures per order of physician and in accordance with policies and procedure guidelines. Assesses patients when performing EKG, attaching Event and Holter Monitor. Reports findings to physician if necessary. 

What We Offer: 

• Day 1 Health Coverage
• Wellness Incentives
• Education Reimbursement
• Parental Benefits
• Retirement Savings Plan with matching

What You Will Need:

• High school diploma with a strong science background. 
• Must pass credentialing examination for Certified Cardiographic Technician within two years of employment and maintain required yearly CEUs after receipt of credential. 
• Healthcare experience preferred.
• Current CPR certification. 

Skills for Success: 

• Communicates effectively with doctors, patients, co-workers, and the public 
• Good oral and written communication skills 
• Ability to work independently 
• Ability to plan and arrange work schedule to reach defined objectives 
• Ability to apply knowledge using varied procedures 
• Basic knowledge of Human Anatomy with emphasis on the Cardiovascular system 
• Basic knowledge of indications, mode of action, side effects, contraindications of Cardiovascular drugs 
• Basic knowledge of the Cardiac Conduction System and Cardiac Dysrhythmias Competent to recognize critical rhythms and report to physician 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.