Periop Technician, Operating Room - BMOS, Full-Time, Day

Prisma Health; Maryville (TN); On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Prisma Health in Maryville, Tennessee, is hiring for a role focusing on providing technical support in the Operating Room. The position entails maintaining equipment and supplies, ensuring patient safety, and supporting surgical staff.

The ideal candidate will have a High School diploma and experience with supply management or health care environments. Join us to inspire health and serve with compassion.

Qualifications

• Education: High School diploma or equivalent.
• Experience with supply management/health care terminology preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for surgical staff and anesthesia.
• Transport patients to and from the OR.
• Maintain a clean and orderly environment.
• Assist with patient positioning and equipment assembly.

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Job description

Job Summary

Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

Provides technical support for surgical technologists, registered nurses, and members of anesthesia staff. Responsible for maintaining, cleaning, storing, and providing equipment and supplies as needed. Enhances case efficiency by reducing case turnover time and length. Maintains confidentiality standards. Demonstrates sensitivity to patient’s dignity, comfort, and privacy. Gives high priority to customer satisfaction.

Essential Functions

• All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's purpose: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
• Aids the turning of rooms by assisting with cleanup and initiating setups for new cases.
• Responsible for transport of all patients to and from the OR from all areas of the hospital. Assists with patient preparation for surgery (e.g., skin clip and scrub) and cares for patients regardless of department assignment.
• Runs intra‑operative errands for the staff during cases (e.g., lab work, specimens, picking up instruments from Central Sterile). Responds to the needs of O.R. staff for supplies, equipment, pharmaceuticals, etc., and responds to emergency calls to any OR.
• Maintains environment in a clean and orderly fashion. Keeps trash, linen, and supplies in proper locations. Problem solves and prioritizes work, proactively avoiding last‑minute needs by anticipating the work and needs of practitioners and patients.
• Stocks supplies and responds to inventory management by informing supervisor or designee if supplies are inappropriate; may initiate resolution in emergency.
• Assists with patient positioning while following principles of good body mechanics to prevent injury to self or the patient.
• Assembles equipment outside of assigned room(s) for “to‑follow” case (e.g., positioning aids, ice bags, coolers with ice, video equipment, specialty carts, headlights, loupes, etc.).
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory/Management Responsibility

This is a non‑management job that reports to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.

Minimum Requirements

• Education – High School diploma or equivalent or post‑high‑school diploma / highest degree earned.
• Experience – Work experience with supply management/health care terminology/operating room environment preferred.

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Location

Blount Memorial Hospital

Facility

8001 Blount Memorial Hospital, Inc.

Department

80066160 Operating Room - BMOS