HSS OR RN Service Line Team Lead, Fulltime Tully Health Center
About The Position
Stamford Health is hiring a full-time HSS OR RN Service Line Team Lead at the Tully Health Center. In alignment with Stamford Health’s Planetree philosophy, this role fosters a respectful, collaborative environment that honors the needs, values, and preferences of patients, care partners, and colleagues. The Service Line Team Lead ensures and delivers high-quality, patient-centered care and coordinates service-line functions. Working with staff, management, vendors, Materials Management, Sterile Processing, physicians, and physician representatives, the role serves as a resource for staff and supports the organization’s mission, vision, and values, patient experience, clinical outcomes, and service-line performance. The role coordinates specialty procedure preparation, reviews schedules and special considerations, supports policy and regulatory compliance, and ensures equipment maintenance. It maintains service-line preference cards and helps align perioperative staff skills with specialty needs. The Team Lead coordinates supplies, equipment, in-services, and educational resources; supports staff onboarding, training, and precepting; and works with management to balance staffing and service-line responsibilities. The role also contributes operational and capital-purchase insights, inventory control, and improvement efforts related to volume, efficiency, cost, and safety.
Requirements
- Registered Nurse or Certified Surgical Technician.
- At least 2 years of clinical experience in an operating room environment.
- Proficient in creating and updating preference cards for the designated service line.
- Completion of specialty training for the service line.
- Completion of performance and knowledge validation for the service line.
- Endorsement by surgeon(s) and perioperative leadership.
Nice To Haves
- Preferred certification.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with surgeons to coordinate, evaluate, and customize service-line needs to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care.
- Review upcoming schedules to confirm preparation for specialty procedures and the accuracy of procedure names, allotted time, and special considerations.
- Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and regulatory standards.
- Ensure equipment maintenance is performed regularly and according to regulatory and accreditation standards.
- Create and regularly update service-line preference cards for accuracy, completeness, and charge capture.
- Align the knowledge, skills, and expertise of perioperative personnel to develop surgical specialty capabilities.
- Reflect Stamford Health’s mission and core values when interacting with coworkers, patients, and physicians.
- Arrange and order supplies and equipment for upcoming procedures and provide in-services to colleagues.
- Develop educational tools, such as reference guides and videos, for service-line procedures and equipment.
- Coordinate staff in-service education with the Perioperative Nurse Educator and Nurse Manager.
- Coordinate with the management team to balance unit staffing needs with service-line responsibilities.
- Serve as a service-line resource and work with surgeons, colleagues, and vendors to provide feedback and training that support service-line performance.
- Lead in a way that inspires commitment to the organization’s vision, mission, and values; demonstrate leadership traits and support team efforts.
- Collaborate with surgeons in the relevant specialty during onboarding and on an ongoing basis.
- Precept new hires and students on service-line procedures and equipment.
- Support physician partnerships.
- Provide information, insight, and suggestions regarding operational and capital purchases and processes related to the service line.
- Identify opportunities and propose solutions to improve volume, efficiency, cost, and safety.
- Support inventory control and assist with managing supplies and equipment.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Comprehensive, low-cost health insurance plans, including GLP-1 coverage options, available on day one.
- Wellness programs.
- Paid time off accruals.
- Tax-deferred annuity and 403(b) pension plan.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Free on-site parking and train station shuttle.
- Childcare partnership with Children’s Learning Center.
- Generous shift differentials where appropriate.
- Professional development and organizational development programs.
- Career ladder programs in several departments.
- Career growth through transfers and promotions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
