Diagnostic Neurophysiology Technologist, EEG Clinical
BC Children’s Hospital
Vancouver, BC
EEG Technologists, when you join the diverse and welcoming group of EEG technology professionals at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, you’ll feel like you’ve won the work team lottery. BC Children’s EEG tech team include long-term staff who enjoy the incredible supportive environment along with ongoing opportunities to gain new certifications and grow their skillsets (for example, CNIM – Certification in Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring; Evoked Potential Technologists – R. EP T.). Each team member has complete ownership of their patients’ care while they are completing their assessments and engaging with the department’s interdisciplinary team.
- Career Growth: Supported advancement across EEG, evoked potentials, and specialty modalities with structured orientation and mentorship.
- Innovative Technology: Work with leading pediatric neurodiagnostic technology in one of Canada’s most specialized children’s hospitals.
- Meaningful Impact: Every study you perform helps guide care for children facing complex neurological conditions.
- Varied Caseload: Work in across all units and clinics, caring for pediatric patients of all levels of acuity, specialities and age, with responsibility for intensive monitoring, ambulatory monitoring, sedated and non-sedated patients.
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What you’ll do
As Diagnostic Neurophysiology Technologist, EEG Clinical, your usual tasks will include:
- Perform analogue and digital EEG recordings. Cater EEG electrode placement, recording parameters, and stimulation techniques to age of patient being testes from pre-term to young adults. Interpret EEG results and implement alternative methods or adjusts controls to obtain optimal recording. This may include appropriate control setting changes on the machine, use of extra electrodes, and use of activation procedures.
- Write a comprehensive patient history with accumulated information from the patient and/or parent, and the medical chart documents. Determine the presenting problem and direct test accordingly. Explain the procedure to the patient and family members present and answer any questions.
- During EEG testing asks patient questions to demonstrate responsiveness and documents patients’ clinical activities during a seizure or other patient emergent situation. Review data collected during event. Provide hard copy print out and factual report of clinical and electrical events. Document video times for archiving and complete appropriate forms.
- Recognize artifact (physiological or environmental). Document, eliminate or take proper measures to monitor the artifact. Apply EOG, EKG, EMG and appropriate transducers to monitor physiologic activities.
- Perform ambulatory monitoring. Apply electrodes and programs hard drive to collect with appropriate parameters as determined by the presenting history. Disconnect patient, transfer collected data to hospital network and reformat hard drive. Analyze and classify EEG data.
- Perform basic EPs and EMG/NC in the laboratory or at the bedside.
- Perform SEP and MEP monitoring during basic spinal cord surgery. Apply surface and subdermal electrodes, deliver motor and somatosensory stimulation and record the results. Document anesthetic levels and vital signs. Label and measure waveforms. Communicate a factual report to surgeon. Trouble shoot system when response degrades.
- Participate in student training program by teaching didactic lectures.
- Administer sedation to patients as prescribed by the patient’s physician, under supervision.
- Participate in in-service educational programs by preparing and presenting lectures. Present video and EEG results at rounds. Present platform and poster presentations at conferences and technical meetings.
What you bring
Qualifications
- Graduation from an approved Electrophysiology Course with certification or a hospital-based training program from an approved institution or two years recent experience including one year of recent pediatric experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience acceptable to the Hospital.
- Certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Registration with the Canadian or American Board of Registration for Electroencephalograph Technologists (R.E.T. or R.EEG T.).
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and systemic racism on Indigenous Peoples within social and health contexts. This includes understanding how these factors contribute to current health disparities and barriers to care. Show a clear commitment to identifying, challenging, and eradicating Indigenous-specific racism and all forms of discrimination impacting equity-deserving groups within healthcare settings. This involves recognizing personal biases, institutional barriers, engaging in anti-racism education and training and advocating for systemic change.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments within BC Children’s Hospital contexts found in the foundational documents including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study, BC Human Rights Code, Anti-racism Data Act and how they intersect across the health care system.
Core Competencies
- Brings an understanding of the Indigenous specific racism and the broader systemic racism that exists in the colonial health care structure, and has demonstrated leadership in breaking down barriers and ensuring an environment of belonging. Embed Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility into all aspects of work. This means creating an environment where Indigenous patients feel respected, valued, and understood. Foster trust through respectful communication, active listening, and honoring equity-deserving people's perspectives on health and wellness. Commit to ongoing education and training on Indigenous health issues, cultural safety, and DEI principles. Participate in workshops, cultural immersion experiences, and continuous professional development to stay informed and responsive to equity-deserving groups. Provide patient-centred care that respects Indigenous ways of knowing and healing, respects BIPOC experiences and world views ensuring that care plans are culturally relevant and holistic.
- Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments (The Declaration Act, the Declaration Action Plan, TRC, IPS, Remembering Keegan, etc.).
Skills & Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to operate related equipment.
- Ability to work independently and to organize and prioritize workload.
- Ability to teach.
- Demonstrates a commitment to beginning and continuing their personal learning journey related to Indigenous-specific racism and dismantling systems of oppression, as well as addressing racism more broadly. Shows willingness to articulate and share their learning experiences to contribute to a culture of motivation and inspiration among peers.
- Demonstrates foundational knowledge of the social, economic, and political realities of settler-colonialism and its impacts on Indigenous peoples and equity-deserving groups within social and health contexts. Understands the impact of social determinants of health-on-health outcomes. Shows a commitment to learning about and upholding legislative obligations and provincial commitments outlined in foundational documents such as the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan, Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study, the BC Human Rights Code, Anti-Racism Data Act, and the Distinctions Based Approach.
What we bring
Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.
- Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations – offering vast opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
- Access to professional development opportunities through our 2,000+ in-house courses including a range of experience level, profession-specific, or other essential training on Indigenous Cultural Safety; Indigenous-specific anti-racism; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and accessibility, mental health and well-being, and more.
- Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including municipal pension plan, and psychological health & safety programs and holistic wellness resources.
- Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
- Access to WorkPerks, a premium discount program offering a wide range of local and national discounts on electronics, entertainment, dining, travel, wellness, apparel, and more.
Job Type: All job types available!
Salary Range: $37.79 - $47.18/hour
Location: 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver BC, V6H 2N9
Hours of Work: Variable; Monday – Friday, 0630 – 1630
Requisition # EEG-ALL
What we do
BC Children’s Hospital provides care for the most seriously ill or injured children and youth from across British Columbia.
BC Children’s Hospital is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).
PHSA plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Create equity – Be courageous.
Learn more about PHSA and our programs: jobs.phsa.ca/programs-and-services
PHSA is committed to anti-racism and equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently excluded groups identified under the B.C. Human Rights Code.
One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes ongoing commitments to Indigenous recruitment and employee experience as well as dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and/or contact the Sanya’k̓ula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at [email protected].
Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and exclusion faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and title of BC First Nations and self-determination of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. PHSA is mandated to uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents including the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.
