Endoscopy Technician - PRN Days

100 LCMC Health; Covington (LA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in Covington, LA is seeking an Endoscopy Technician to support GI procedures. You will disinfect and sterilize endoscopic equipment, assist physicians, document procedures, and prepare patients for procedures with compassion and professionalism.

You will maintain patient safety, follow infection control protocols, and ensure equipment and supplies are ready for scheduled procedures while complying with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Infection control protocols must be followed.
• Disinfect and sterilize endoscopic equipment for next use.
• Assist physician during endoscopic procedures and provide patient support.
• Accurately document procedures and prepare patients for procedures.

Responsibilities

• Determine equipment needs for scheduled procedures and whether replacement or repair is required.
• Follow infection control, cleaning, disinfecting and sterilizing procedures.
• Assist physician with endoscopic procedures during diagnostic and therapeutic cases.
• Document each procedure as required by policy.
• Prepare patients for endoscopic procedures and ensure proper setup of supplies and instruments.
• Monitor and document performance improvement tasks.
• Demonstrate compliance with state, federal, and accrediting requirements (HIPAA, patient safety, infection control).

Skills

Infection control

Sterilization

Endoscopy support

Documentation

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Job Summary

Your job is more than a job. You’re a safety guru, germaphobe, and technology geek all rolled into one. As an Endoscopy Technician, you’re responsible for the care of technical equipment used in endoscopic procedures. Infection control and the safe application of procedures is a priority as you disinfect and sterilize giving big focus on the small stuff. You provide physician support for gastrointestinal procedures, both diagnostic and therapeutic, while sharing smiles, tears, laughter, sadness, and aha moments with your patients. Through it all, you maintain your professionalism and embrace your patients and team members with compassion, respect, and empathy. You take the ordinary and make it extraordinary. That’s what makes us excited that you’re considering joining our healthcare community. Your experiences, your knowledge, your skills, your empathy, your compassion, and your personality, all of it adds up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this diagnostic support role.

Responsibilities

Your Everyday Determine if equipment is appropriate for scheduled procedures, what equipment needs to be ordered for replacement and if scope/equipment needs repair.

Follow proper infection control protocols cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing equipment for next use.

Assist physician with endoscopic procedures.

Document procedures as required.

Prepare patient for endoscopic procedures.

Ensure supplies and instruments are set up properly for procedures.

Monitor and document assigned performance improvement tasks.

Demonstrate and actively ensure compliance with all state, federal regulatory and accrediting agencies (i.e., patient safety, infection control, HIPAA, etc.)

Must-Haves

High School Diploma/ GED or appropriate work experience

American Heart Association BLS certification

On-Call Response Time

This position requires a 30-minute On-Call response time.

Work Shift

Days (United States of America)

About LCMC Health

LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary. Lakeview Hospital, the center of LCMC Health’s extraordinary community of care on the Northshore, provides the only Level II trauma center in St. Tammany Parish. Along with our signature healthcare and wellness services, we continuously adopt the latest treatments, technologies, and medical innovations to better serve our patients. Learn more about Lakeview Hospital and our nationally recognized standards of excellence for heart, stroke, orthopedic, and women’s care. You are welcome here.

Extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do.

Equal Opportunity Employment

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Disclaimer

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary. Simple things make the difference.

About LCMC Health (Continued)

About LCMC Health One-of-a-kind care comes from one-of-a-kind people. At LCMC Health, our people are the magic ingredient that makes our care so extra-extraordinary. We are compassionate, driven, and dedicated to bringing a little something extra to healthcare and to the people of New Orleans and beyond. If you’re the kind of person who believes that our community deserves the best and that healthcare needs a little more heart, we want you to be a part of our family. From medical roles to administrative positions, every person on our team plays a part in our mission: to provide health, care, and education beyond extraordinary. Let’s make every day extraordinary, together.