OR Equipment Coordinator CST

Job Description:

This role requires certification as a Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) through the NBSTSA or NCCT. NO Exceptions will be made to this requirement.

Shift and Scheduling

This position is full time at 40 hours per week. The work schedule for this position is Monday-Friday, 6:50AM - 3:20PM. There is No Call requirement for this role.

Job Essentials

• Maintains a complete and accurate inventory of current equipment.

• Maintains annual asset inventory.

• Ensures that annual checks of protective imaging attire are completed.

• Provides onsite troubleshooting of equipment in the operating room suite.

• Maintains vendor and Supply Chain relationships and ensures equipment is available for cases.

• Identifies potential equipment scheduling conflicts and assists management in resolving conflicts.

• Assists management in the capital budget process by providing quotes in collaboration with the Supply Chain organization for equipment and recommendations of equipment needed for operating rooms.

• Assists in the training of staff on proper use of new and current operating room equipment.

• Maintains of inventory of equipment sent for repair and works with clinical engineering to ensure that equipment is repaired and validated correctly and in a timely manner.

• Ensures that borrowed equipment is delivered and returned in a timely manner consistent with guidelines and expectations.

• Scrubs assigned cases as needed.

• May act as a Laser Safety Officer.

• Completes other site specific duties as delegated.

Posting Specifics

• Pay: $35.25 - $54.39 (Pay is based on experience)

• Shift: Full Time

• Benefits: Yes

• Work Location: Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah

Minimum Qualifications

• Current National OR Tech Certification (an active certification must be maintained).

• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.

• Experience in a surgical setting and knowledge of surgical equipment. Ability to assist with equipment issues.

• Must be competent and proficient in General Surgery and 2 specialty areas or

• All surgical procedures performed in the department.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in CVOR, Transplant, and Neurosurgery cases

• Certification as a Laser Safety Officer (as applicable).

• Knowledge of Microsoft word, excel, power point, PeopleSoft, and capital budgeting software.

• Ability to multi task and meet assigned deadlines.

• Critical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills and experience.

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, sterile indicator tags, colors, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.

• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.

• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment and instruments with precision and accuracy. This includes computer use and typing for documentation, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.

• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.

• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc).

• May be expected to stand in a stationary position with personal protective equipment for an extended period of time.

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The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

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