Service Line Coordinator - Operating Room, Providence Hospital

USA Health; Mobile (AL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

USA Health is seeking a perioperative leader to oversee operations across OR services on the Gulf Coast. You will coordinate staffing, scheduling, and performance, while ensuring efficient case turnover and readiness of implants, instruments, and equipment.

Responsibilities include collaborating with clinic staff, vendors, and sterilization teams, promoting safety and standardization, and supporting ongoing staff training and compliance with hospital policies.

Qualifications

• RN licensure in Alabama or a compact state is required.
• BCLS and ACLS certifications are required.
• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing is required.
• CNOR certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership across personnel, financial, and process improvement for the service line.
• Supports daily OR operations, ensuring first case starts on time and turnover is efficient.
• Collaborates with clinic staff, scheduling, providers, and vendors to ensure case needs are met.
• Manages materials: implants, instruments, equipment, and vendors for all cases.
• Supports perioperative staff through orientation, training, and competency development.
• Adheres to infection control, safety standards, and departmental requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Operations coordination

Teamwork

Communication

Education

RN licensure (Alabama or compact)

BCLS

ACLS

CNOR certification (preferred)

Job description

Overview

USA Health is Transforming Medicine along the Gulf Coast to care for the unique needs of our community. USA Health is changing how medical care, education, and research impact the health of people who live in Mobile and the surrounding area. Our team of doctors, advanced care providers, nurses, therapists, and researchers provides the region's most advanced medicine at multiple facilities, campuses, clinics, and classrooms. We offer patients convenient access to innovative treatments and advancements that improve the health and overall well-being of our community.

Overview

USA Health is Transforming Medicine along the Gulf Coast to care for the unique needs of our community. USA Health is changing how medical care, education, and research impact the health of people who live in Mobile and the surrounding area. Our team of doctors, advanced care providers, nurses, therapists, and researchers provides the region's most advanced medicine at multiple facilities, campuses, clinics, and classrooms. We offer patients convenient access to innovative treatments and advancements that improve the health and overall well-being of our community.

Responsibilities

• Leadership: Provides leadership across the domains of personnel management, financial management (supply chain), performance management, nursing practice management and process improvement for their service line(s)
• Support daily operations of the OR through team assignments, ensuring all rooms are setup and ready for first case on time starts, facilitating turnover and throughput and effective hand off techniques between care teams.
• Support future operations through collaboration with clinic staff, OR Scheduling Center, providers, vendor reps, sterilization, and materials management to ensure all needed people and equipment are available for future cases.
• Materials Management, primary interface to ensure appropriate supplies and implants are available for all cases
  • Ensure availability of implants and grafts
  • Ensure needed instruments are available for the cases
  • Ensure appropriate vendors are contacted and available as needed
  • Ensure that needed equipment is available in the OR rooms
  • Assist with special needs, equipment and supplies
  • Tracks tissue ordering, arrival and use
  • Monitors expiration and consignment needs within their service line(s)
• Staffing, supports perioperative services staff in orientation, standardization, training, and case performance within the service line(s)
  • Facilitating or providing in-services, introductions of new equipment and products, supplies and annual competencies
  • Actively participates in departmental meetings, in-services, and committees with attendance of 80% or better
  • Actively develops a sense of team, initiates and participates in team development
  • Actively participates in all new hire and service line evaluations
• Citizenship Responsibilities include:
  • Accepts and completes all duties positively and without conflict
  • Cooperates, helps others, and improves the performance of the unit
  • Completes all mandatory unit, educational, and hospital requirements
  • Utilizes cost effective practices in performing all aspects of the job
• Standards Compliance:
  • Assumes accountability for current standards established by professions, regulatory and governmental agencies
  • Determines translates and implements relevant standards and promotes department compliance
  • Maintains standards of practice consistent with current research findings.
  • Adheres to current Infection Control and Safety Standards
• Completes all mandatory department, educational and hospital requirements
• Adheres to current Infection Control and Safety Standards
• Regular and prompt attendance
• Ability to work schedule as defined and overtime as required
• Related duties as assigned

Additional Information

Employees must be in a regular position, working 20 hours or more per week (.50 FTE or greater) to qualify for benefits.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing meeting the minimum standards set by the "State of Alabama" Required OR
• Completion of a clinical program and 2 years of experience in a perioperative setting. Required
• RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure in accordance with the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) for Alabama Required or
• certification in area of clinical focus Required
• BCLS - Basic Life Support Required
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Required
• CNOR - Certified Operating Room Nurse Preferred
• Comparable combination of education and experience may substitute for the above requirements.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

The University of South Alabama is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable legally protected basis. EO Employer - minorities/females/veterans/disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity.