Implant Coordinator

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta•Atlanta, GA

44d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides critical support in the control, coordination, and replenishment of surgical implants. Manages implants to ensure availability of needed product, compliance with contracts and to mitigate waste. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has been 100 percent committed to kids for more than 100 years. A not-for-profit organization, Children’s is dedicated to making kids better today and healthier tomorrow. With 3 hospitals, 20 neighborhood locations and a total of 673 beds, Children’s is the largest healthcare provider for children in Georgia and one of the largest pediatric clinical care providers in the country. Children’s offers access to more than 60 pediatric specialties and programs and is ranked among the top children’s hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Children’s has been recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Place to Work, a Best Place for Working Mothers, and as a top employer for diversity and millennials. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefit package that supports our mission, vision and values. We are proud to offer an array of programs and services to our employees that have distinguished us as a best place to work in the country. Connect to our mission of making kids better today and healthier tomorrow. Have questions about the recruitment process? Check out What to Expect. https://careers.choa.org/lp/What%20to%20Expect/2895392d3ba166e6/?locale=en_US

Requirements

2 years of experience in inventory control and purchasing or 2 years of experience in surgical services or as a surgical vendor representative
Good computer skills
Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Experience in hospital operating room or surgery center setting
Experience with surgical implants

Responsibilities

Research products and provides substitution suggestions as needed.
Maintains accurate files and data on all materials purchased.
Orders, receives, and coordinates all implants.
Quality check’s location uploads to Lawson and makes suggestions to surgical inventory supervisor using future forecast software.
Works with surgeons, assistant nurse managers, and technologists to assess inventory needs and revises par levels as necessary to maintain adequate levels of supplies while minimizing outages and overstocks.
Assists with product recalls and supports Sterile Processing with supply ordering.
Assists with daily closeouts, including communicating with supply chain and operating room staff.
Ensures all supplies are available for next day’s cases; reviewing OR Schedule two weeks out to identify and ensure availability of needed supplies, minimizing overnight and emergent orders and deliveries and allowing for sufficient timeframes for sterilization of received implants prior to procedures.
Works with charge specialists to maintain charge description master listing of implants and prices.
Coordinates staff in-services with Sterile Processing and operating room as needed on implants and implant trays including purchasing processes as needed.
Completes monthly check of expiration dates for all implants.
Checks shelf labeling and evaluates historical usage data to raise or lower par levels.
Coordinates transfer or purchase of supplies urgently from other campuses, hospitals, and vendors.
Reduces variances and prepares assigned service line for daily, monthly, and annual cycle counts.
Participates in departmental and hospital programs for Quality Assessment and Improvement, identifying opportunities to improve services, making recommendations, and implementing actions as appropriate and consistent with system and departmental goals.
Monitors vendor traffic and compliance with vendor policies.
Adheres to policies and procedures for the ordering, storage, loaning/borrowing and distribution of tissue and implants.
Coordinates returns of implants and disposable of outdated implants.
Tracks and maintains record systems for all implants in accordance with regulatory guidelines to optimize procurement.