Surgery Aide

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The Surgery Aide provides essential non-nursing support to the perioperative team by assisting in operating room set up, pulling for cases, and maintaining PAR levels of disposable supplies within the surgical services department. The surgery aide ensures a safe, and efficient environment, assisting with room turnover, anesthesia machine turnover, and scheduled cleaning. Supply replenishment includes working with Surgical Services staff and leaders to ensure supply requests are fulfilled and delivered timely;

maintaining organized department supply storage areas; and checking stock, pulling, issuing, and delivering supplies as needed. Duties include utilizing the computer database system to maintain/update data and record all transactions when materials management does not have the staffing to meet this need.

• 1.0 FTE (40 hours/week)
• 11am-7:30pm or 12pm-8:30pm
• Monday
  - Friday

• $20.00/hr + DOE
• $3.00/hr OR Differential
• Robust Benefits Package

• OR room turnovers between cases- cleaning and set-up.
• Preparing OR rooms for next day: specific equipment, specific bed...
• Aiding anesthesia turnovers, circuit changes.
• Pulling supplies and instrumentation for scheduled surgical cases.
• Managing PAR levels of all supplies in all areas of surgical services, checking inventory daily, ordering, stocking daily and ensuring all stock is rotated with older expiration dates in front.
• Pulling needed supplies from warehouse inventory, issuing supplies to Surgical Services, and delivering and stocking supplies to all areas in Surgical Services.
• Assisting with reordering stocked and special-order items - monitoring min/max levels, pulling reorder information, helping to prepare and place purchase orders, and monitoring order status.
• Checking and removing any outdated supplies, ensuring replacements are stocked.
• Assisting with terminal cleaning throughout the surgical services department.
• Efficiently operating the supply chain database, able to perform all necessary tasks if supply chain staff are not available to do so.
• Use computer applications (Excel and Word) to create, maintain, and modify PAR sheets.

• Additional tasks assigned by the department manager or director for which the Surgery Aide is fully trained and oriented.
  
  E.g., Assisting in SPD as needed.

• High School Diploma or Equivalency
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (within one year of hire)
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to remain calm under pressure and follow instructions.
• Ability to respond courteously in the face of interruptions and frequent changes.
• Attention to detail, excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to meet the physical demands classifications of position (on a routine and repetitive basis employee will be required to climb stairs, bend, stoop, kneel, stretch, reach and lift 40-60 pounds from floor height to waist level, and carry 40-50 pounds).
• Ability to utilize basic computer applications, MS Office (Excel, Word , and Outlook) and able to learn the inventory management system.
• Proficient spelling, reading, writing, and mathematics skills.
• Strong customer service experience and skills.
• Basic understanding of sterile techniques, infection control, and surgical procedures.
• Must possess maturity to act independently and as an important part of the team.