Clinical Lead/Educator Perioperative
About The Position
The operating room Team Leader is a registered nurse who provides direct and indirect nursing care and serves as a patient care provider, supervisor, and expert clinical resource for staff. The role supports patient-focused care consistent with departmental goals, regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, protocols, and established standards of practice. The Team Leader collaborates with physicians and other disciplines to support quality, cost-effective patient care, as well as health maintenance, teaching, counseling, collaborative planning, and rehabilitation. The position includes orienting, supervising, teaching, and evaluating staff competencies and learning needs; providing staff education; and ensuring the availability and appropriate management of specialty instruments, equipment, resource materials, and supplies. The Team Leader also works with surgeons and surgical support services to plan care and introduce specialty products, implants, supplies, and equipment, while monitoring the fiscal implications of practice changes. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires staff to be vaccinated against influenza as a condition of employment. The listed base hourly pay range is $40.17–$95.93. Actual compensation may depend on factors including seniority, education, training, relevant experience and certifications, work location, and job responsibilities, and may include applicable differentials, call pay, premium pay, or overtime pay.
Requirements
- Graduate of a School of Nursing.
- Current Massachusetts Registered Nurse license.
- Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association, or obtain it within 30 days of hire.
- Ability to work cooperatively and effectively with others as a team member.
- Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the population of patients regularly served, and seek assistance from resources when other population groups need care.
- Physical ability to meet core job responsibilities in accordance with practice-setting demands for the patient populations regularly served.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct and indirect nursing care and patient-focused care in the operating room.
- Serve as a patient care provider, supervisor, and expert clinical resource for staff.
- Orient, supervise, teach, and evaluate personnel competencies and learning needs in specific services.
- Conduct formal and informal education programs for new and continuing employees on new products, equipment, and practice standards.
- Ensure the availability of instruments, equipment, resource materials, and supplies within the clinical specialty.
- Manage equipment inventory, repair, replacement, and purchasing for the specialty service.
- Monitor and evaluate the fiscal implications of changes in practice.
- Collaborate with surgeons to develop appropriate plans of care, including maintaining and updating specialty preference cards.
- Collaborate with surgical support services to introduce products, implants, supplies, and equipment specific to the service.
- Collaborate with physicians and other disciplines to support quality, cost-effective patient care.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
