Anesthesia Technician - Malvern Surgery Center (PART-TIME)

Nemours Children's Health•Malvern, PA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Nemours is seeking a part-time Anesthesia Technician for its Malvern Surgery Center. The role supports daily operations and serves as a resource to anesthesia providers. Duties include operating room turnovers, stocking supplies, assisting with regional anesthesia blocks and difficult airways, transporting specimens and laboratory materials, managing special purchasing and shipping/receiving, responding to recalls, monitoring medical gas supplies, maintaining difficult-airway and Malignant Hyperthermia Cart supplies, conducting equipment checks, and contributing to quality improvement and cost reduction initiatives. The Anesthesia Technician collaborates with anesthesia providers and technicians, including teams at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Surgery Center, Deptford, in accordance with applicable regulations and organizational policies and practices. The role requires maintaining state and federal clearances for Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey to support collaboration and periodic rotations to those facilities. Travel is compensated according to organizational policy. This is a part-time position of 20 hours per week, scheduled Thursday and Friday from 8:00 AM to 6:30 PM. There are no weekends, holidays, or on-call shifts.

Requirements

High school diploma.
American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Prior experience as an Anesthesia Technician.
Maintain state and federal clearances for Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey.

Nice To Haves

American Society of Anesthesia Technologists and Technicians (ASATT) qualification.

Responsibilities

Support daily operations in compliance with regulatory and organizational standards.
Maintain a clean and safe work environment for patients, families, and associates in areas including the surgical suite, anesthesia workroom, pre- and post-surgical care areas, utility rooms, and hallways.
Prepare, calibrate, check the function of, and clean anesthesia and surgical equipment before and after use, including ventilation systems, infusion pumps, IV fluids, monitors, oxygen analyzers, ultrasound machines, warming devices, surgical tables, stretchers, endoscopy video equipment, and cast saws.
Monitor, order, maintain, and manage medical gases, including replacing oxygen and other gas cylinders used on stretchers, in operating rooms, on video towers, and on anesthesia machines.
Audit disposable supplies for integrity, par levels, and expiration dates.
Monitor routine equipment preventive-maintenance audits in cooperation with Biomedical Engineering and maintain associated documentation and records.
Maintain inventory and par levels using demand flow, including scanning and special ordering supplies in coordination with relevant supply, logistics, patient-flow, and surgical team members.
Coordinate surgical case preparation with surgeons, patient-flow staff, service coordinators, surgical technologists, sterile processing staff, and vendors, including use of procedure cards and receipt or return of loaner instrumentation.
Coordinate ordering, receiving, storing, and returning human tissue grafts with surgeons, patient-flow staff, the Implant Coordinator, and approved vendors in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.
Coordinate transportation of specimens to appropriate locations.
Participate in departmental and hospital quality programs and continuous-improvement events to maintain and improve productivity and performance.
Support anesthesia providers with operating room turnovers, stocking, regional anesthesia blocks, difficult airways, specimen and laboratory transport, special purchasing and shipping/receiving, recall response, and maintenance of emergency supplies and equipment.
Collaborate with anesthesia providers and technicians in accordance with state and federal regulations and organizational anesthesia policies, procedures, reliable methods, and standard practices.
Maintain required state and federal clearances for Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey to support collaboration and periodic rotations.