Surgical Support Associate

Mclaren-Health-Care; Bay City (MI); On-site; USD 25,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care in Grand Blanc, Michigan, seeks an OR support professional to assist the surgery team with patient care in a part-time role. You will help prepare sterile environments, transport items, and support room turnover in a busy OR setting.

Required: high school diploma and BLS; preferred prior operating room experience or patient care exposure. Schedule: 6:30am–3:00pm, part-time, on-site at McLaren Bay facilities.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• BLS certification must be current.
• Preferred: operating room experience.

Responsibilities

• Assists surgery team with direct/indirect patient care activities in the OR.
• Maintains sterile environment and prepares instrument trays and autoclave as needed.
• Assists with room turnover and stock items for surgical suites.
• Communicates observations of patient status to the RN and follows directions.
• Respects patient privacy and participates in performance improvement activities.

Skills

Sterile technique

Patient care

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

High school diploma

BLS certification

Job description

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

Position Summary

Assists surgery team with direct/indirect patient care activities including sterile procedure setup.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• 1. Assists in maintaining a safe and orderly patient care environment in surgery, adhering to established policy.
• 2. Demonstrates competency and knowledge in performing specified skills, including transporting and activities that occur in a sterile environment.
• 3. Demonstrates competency in utilization of specified equipment required for patient care, including but not limited to, cleaning and assembling instrument tray and operating the autoclave.
• 4. Assists with supplying OR suites with stock items; supplies blanket/fluid warmer; runs errands that support patient care activity.
• 5. Assists with room turnover by performing activities such as, but not limited to, sweeping, mopping, removing trash, and disinfecting as appropriate.
• 6. Responds to real or simulated emergency and disaster situations according to established procedure.
• 7. Assumes responsibility for obtaining current accurate information and expand knowledge base through utilization of appropriate learning experiences, and attending mandatory annual in-services.
• 8. Demonstrates organizational skills and appropriately priorities assigned work responsibilities.
• 9. Communicates effectively and reports relevant observations of patient status to responsible Registered Nurse and follow through as directed.
• 10. Respects patient rights by providing privacy and confidentiality of information.
• 11. Participates in performance improvement activities.
• 12. Provides for the age specific needs of the population served according to department standards, as evidenced by observation, documentation, and peer feedback.
• ( ) Newborn - Birth to discharge from McLaren-Bay
• (x) Infant - Any child up to one year
• (x) Pediatric - One year to 12 years
• (x) Adolescence - 13 - 17 years
• (x) Adult - 18-64 years
• (x) Geriatric - 65 years and older
• 13. Performs other related duties as required and directed.

Qualifications

Required

• High school diploma or equivalent
• BLS issued by American Heart Association or Red Cross Certification

Preferred

• Previous Operating Room experience
• Minimum of one (1) year experience in a patient care area

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrable knowledge of a) medical terminology and b) asepsis and conduct in a sterile environment
• Affective verbal and written communication skills

Position Specific Expectations

• 1. Personal contact with various Medical Center employees.
• 2. Must be physically capable of performing Job Responsibilities with or without accommodation.

Additional Information

• Schedule: Part-time
• Daily Work Times: 6:30am-3:00pm
• On Call: No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status,national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classificationprotected by law.