Team Lead - Surgical Services for Main Operating Room

Operating Room Manager

Lead daily operations of surgical suites in support of surgical procedures.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading and coordinating shift operations including schedules and resources.
• Preparing surgical operating suites with sterile and non-sterile instruments and supplies.
• Assisting surgeons during surgery, providing required and requested instruments and supplies to surgeon and assisting with hemostasis.
• Assisting with preparing, transporting, positioning and draping patients.
• Maintaining instruments in an organized manner and monitoring and tracking instruments counts throughout procedures.
• Performing staff orientation, training, and coaching. Providing input to staff performance evaluations.

Requirements include:

• BLS Provider obtained within 1 Month (30 days) of hire date or job transfer date required. American Heart Association or American Red Cross accepted.
• One or more of the following required:
• Licensed Registered Nurse credentialed from the Tennessee Board of Nursing or current home state license for multi-state license recognition "Compact State" obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
• Certified First Surgical Assistant obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date. Associates who hired/transferred before 04/30/2018 are not required to hold certification. The following Issuing Authorities are acceptable: NBSTSA, ABSA, and NCCSA.
• Surgical Tech credentialed from the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA) obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
• Central Service Tech specializing in Sterile Processing credentialed from the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association preferred.
• Education:
• High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Technical degree with 1 year of experience OR 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.

Ascension Saint Thomas is a leading health care system with a 125-year history of providing care to the community, and is the only faith-based, non-profit health system in Middle Tennessee. Today, the health system offers a highly comprehensive system of care, consisting of a network of hospitals, affiliated joint ventures, medical practices, clinics and specialty facilities.

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