Perioperative Support Specialist

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus is looking for a dedicated Perioperative Support Specialist to join the team! This role will be full-time day shift, Monday-Friday, every other weekend from 6:00am-2:30pm

Inova is consistently ranked as national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and remote and hybrid career opportunities.

• Facilitates the transferring/positioning of patients in the operating room in addition to assisting with patient surgical preparation as requested and directed by the nursing staff.
• Prepares the operating room for cases by opening sterile supplies/instruments and maintaining awareness of aseptic technique.
• Reads and understands the OR schedule and preference cards to prepare for the next surgical encounter.
• Retrieves and delivers requested supplies and instruments to Operating Rooms to minimize the circulating nurse's time out of the room.
• Gathers and packs instruments and sterile supplies for scheduled and added cases to provide efficient procedure set up of surgical cases.
• Checks and validates case carts.
• Additional duties as assigned

• Minimum Education: High School diploma or GED equivalent.
• Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  Two years of recent hospital experience and/or previous surgical services experience.
• Certification
  :
  Basic Life Support via AHA within 3 months