Lead Anesthesia Technician, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital

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Lead Anesthesia Technician, Cer.

A.T/Cer.

A.T.T. – VUMC - $10k Signing Bonus/Relocation Available

Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

Relocation Offered to Qualified Applicants

Coordinates work assignments for Anesthesia Techs independently. Serves as a mentor to Anesthesia technical staff and participates in the orientation of newly hired Anesthesia Technical staff. Assists with quality control and maintenance of equipment. Assists the Anesthesia Technician Manager/Educator with personnel issues. Performs all functions of Certified Anesthesia Technologist.

• FT Days 6a-2:30p

Department Summary: The Vanderbilt Department of Anesthesiology embraces the anesthesia care team approach to patient care, involving anesthesiologists and residents, certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), student registered nurse anesthetists (SRNAs) and anesthesia technicians. The department at Vanderbilt provides anesthesia for all types of surgical procedures, including cardiac, pediatrics, vascular, trauma, neurosurgery, plastics, radiologic, and special procedures.

• Vanderbilt pays ASATT membership dues for Certified Anesthesia Techs.

• Our certified techs can do more! At other facilities they only require their techs to do room turnovers and stock. Here at VUMC, our techs are expected to be hands on. There are no limits on what our Anesthesia Techs can learn.
• Clear path to management: Certified Techs can be considered for lead, supervisor, and eventually management roles. Our rapid growth allows for more advancement opportunities than other facilities.

• Organizes and coordinates the use of anesthesia personnel of assigned area.
• Insures that technical staff are responding in a timely fashion to all requests by the anesthesia care provider.
• May have primary responsibility for scheduling anesthesia staff in regards to daily schedule, time off, in-services, and any other educational activity.
• Assists educator in the evaluation of proficiency of technical staff by providing constructive feedback.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

• Equipment Maintenance (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate the ability to maintain equipment, products, or systems in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Assures that parts inventory is sufficient.
• Medical Terminology & Documentation (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate medical terminology and documentation in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Operations Management (Intermediate):
  Demonstrates mastery of operations management in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering results without requiring support and instruction from others. Able to train and…