Associate Perioperative Support Technician - Evenings

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health; Lebanon (NH); On-site; USD 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health is seeking an Environmental Services Technician to support perioperative areas with sterile, safe cleaning and rapid turnovers. You will learn terminal cleaning and collaborate with OR staff to maintain patient safety and high hygiene standards.

The role emphasizes attention to detail, reliability, and strong communication while working a stable 3:00pm–11:30pm shift in a hospital environment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma (or GED) strongly preferred.
• Ability to anticipate, prioritize, and coordinate work in a high stress environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Master environmental cleaning processes for perioperative areas.
• Perform sterilization duties in MOR and other surgical areas.
• Learn terminal cleaning to prevent HACs.
• Perform rapid room turnovers per OR sanitation standards.
• Clean and maintain OR areas and equipment.
• Ensure cleaning equipment is sterile, safe, and maintained.
• May assist with floor cleaning and refinishing.
• Shadow PSTs in preparing infusion devices for procedures.
• Maintain nursing carts, sets, and OR supply areas.
• Maintain and assemble disposable monitoring equipment.
• Ensure gas tanks and PPE are available.
• Handle sharps containers, soiled linen and trash properly.
• Assist in patient positioning for regional anesthesia or procedures.
• Perform other duties as required.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Independent work

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Overview

$5,000 sign on bonus.

Monday - Friday, 3:00pm -11:30pm.

Dartmouth Health Benefits start the first day of employment.

Orients and completes the necessary competencies to perform a variety of essential environmental and material management functions that ensure patient safety, reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections (HAC’s), and create safe, clean and sterile work environments for the operating room staff.

Responsibilities

• Masters environmental cleaning processes for all Perioperative areas including procedural and non-procedural spaces, restricted and semi-restricted spaces and all equipment contained therein.
• Performs a variety of specific sterilization duties within the Main Operating Rooms (MOR) and other surgical areas and orients to prepare tables for various specialty procedures. Removes clean, unneeded equipment from OR and ensures trash and contaminated linens and instruments are properly handled and sent to appropriate destination. Handles blood, tissue, bodily fluids, recyclables and other materials safely.
• Learns to perform “terminal cleaning”, an intensive cleaning process, ensuring that MOR spaces are free of infectious materials that cause hospital-acquired infections (HAC’s).
• Performs rapid room turnovers using standards of OR sanitation and/or terminal cleaning and prepares OR after room turnover.
• Cleans and maintains other areas of OR on a regularly scheduled basis.
• Ensures that all cleaning equipment is sterile, safe, and properly maintained. Reports all faulty equipment to supervisor.
• May be responsible to master floor cleaning and refinishing.
• Shadows Periop Support Techs (PST) in preparing special infusion devices (FMS and Level 1) for trauma and emergent procedures.
• Orients to clean and maintain equipment needed for specialty procedures.
• Learns to maintain nursing specialty carts, nursing sets, all OR and anesthesia supply areas, and suture carts.
• Orients to maintaining and assembling disposable blood pressure monitoring equipment.
• Ensures availability of gas tanks and regulators for safe transfer of patients. Maintains supply of personal protective equipment.
• Orients to ensuring proper handling of sharps containers, and soiled linen and trash.
• Under the supervision of a Registered Nurse or Anesthesia provider, learns to position patients for the administration of regional anesthesia and/or surgical procedures, orients to participating in the transfer of patients to stretchers, beds, and/or operating room tables, and learns to perform point of care laboratory testing.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

• High school diploma (or GED) strongly preferred.
• Ability to anticipate, prioritize, and coordinate work in a high stress environment (which involves responding to emergency situations and tight schedules) required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and demonstrates reliability and strong attention to detail.

Required Licensure/Certifications

• BLS Certification at hire
• Must be registered with the New Hampshire Board of Registration for Medical Technicians within four (4) weeks of hire