Clinical Lead/Educator Perioperative

Beth Israel Lahey Health • Brookline, MA

13h

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 standards of practice. The Team Leader collaborates with physicians and other disciplines to ensure quality, cost-effective patient care, and supports health maintenance, teaching, counseling, collaborative planning, and rehabilitation.

The position includes orienting, supervising, teaching, and evaluating personnel; delivering staff education; ensuring the availability of specialty instruments, equipment, resources, and supplies; and managing specialty equipment inventory, repair, replacement, and purchase. The Team Leader also evaluates fiscal implications of practice changes and collaborates with surgeons and surgical support services on care plans, preference cards, and specialty products, implants, supplies, and equipment.

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 populations of patients regularly served; seek assistance from resources when care is needed for other population groups.
• Physical ability to meet core job responsibilities in accordance with practice-setting demands for the patient populations regularly served.

Responsibilities

• 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 instruments, equipment, resource materials, and supplies are available within the clinical specialty.
• Manage equipment inventory, repair, replacement, and purchase 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 preference cards for the specialty area.
• Collaborate with surgical support services to introduce products, implants, supplies, and equipment specific to the service.
• Provide direct and indirect nursing care and act as a patient care provider, supervisor, and expert clinical resource for staff.
• Collaborate with physicians and other disciplines to support quality, cost-effective patient care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed