Operating Room Aide

Position: Operating Room Aide I (40hrs/week)
Location: Wyoming

Melrose Wakefield Hospital, part of the Tufts Medicine system, has been offering the highest quality and accessible healthcare to the local community for over 130 years. With two hospital campuses, Level III Trauma Center, Level III Special Care Nursery, Breast Health Center, Cardiovascular Center and over 20 locations and 50 specialties, Melrose Wakefield Hospital offers many opportunities to grow your career.

If you are passionate about providing care in your local community, come join our team!

Job Profile Summary This role focuses on providing medical and clinical support services to patients. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Surgical Services duties:
Responsible for medical services involving the excision or incision of a patient's body, such as interventional pain management and other procedures. This position also works to provide a safe environment for patients undergoing invasive procedures or surgery. A clinical technologist role that has specialized knowledge or skills gained through a combination of vocational education, training, and experience. This role will be most commonly applied to patient care and/or scientific/laboratory jobs.

An entry-level role typically requiring little to no prior knowledge or experience and requiring vocational or technical education. Work is routine or follows standard procedures, is closely supervised, and communicates information that requires little explanation or interpretation.

Job Overview Under general supervision of the Operating Room leaders and personnel, engages in direct and indirect tasks for patients having surgical procedures. With a focus on safety and efficiency, general responsibilities include room turnover and set up, stock inventory, transporting patients to and from the procedural areas, and providing the rooms with required specialty equipment in preparation for all procedures.

This is an integral position in a dynamic and fast paced clinical setting with involvement in various surgical procedures that include an advanced cardiac surgery program.

Hours:

40 hours per week - 11am-7:30pm Monday-Friday On-Call shifts required once per month Saturday or Sunday

Location:

Melrose Wakefield Hospital - 585 Lebanon St, Melrose, MA 02176.

What We Offer:

Competitive salaries & benefits that start on day one!403(b) retirement plan with hospital match

Opportunities for growth

Tuition reimbursement

Free parking

Minimum Qualifications:

1. High school diploma or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Associate’s degree.
2. One (1) year experience working in an operating room or surgical area in a hospital.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.
1. Assists Environmental Services with room turnover; wiping down and docking Neptune’s, setting up specialized equipment/O.R. tables for next case.
2. Transports patients from surgical floors to OR suite or other areas of the hospital, equipment and supplies to and from O.R. and works as a liaison with CPD to ensure delivery of kits and sterile items throughout the surgical case.
3. Transports blood products and specimen to and from their respective locations (i.e. Blood Bank, Mammography, Pathology, Cytology).4. Assists in the transfer of a patient from the OR table to the patient's bed under the clinical care team’s guidance.
5. Assists team with ensuring the OR table and positioning devices for proper attachments are safely secured and ready to support a patient.
6. Performs general tidiness of all procedural areas and maintains cleanliness of inner and outer core zones of the surgical suites ensuring no medical gas panels, electrical panels, or fire extinguishers are blocked.
7. Maintains all medical gas tank exchanges in safe manner, monitoring PSI levels on tank gauges, and responding to alarms.
8. Responsible for fluid and linen re-stocking and maintenance inside O.R room warmers and fluid carts; labeling with accurate expiration dates and discarding expired fluid.
9. Returns unopened case carts, kits, and…