Operating Room Attendant Lead

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Lead Operating Room Attendant for UT Southwestern in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. This role involves directing, training, and motivating Operating Room Attendant personnel, handling staffing issues, and serving as the primary contact for the OR Attendant group. The position also collaborates with leadership on interviewing, hiring, guidance, and counseling of staff, and acts as a preceptor for new hires. Responsibilities include daily rounds to inspect cleanliness, maintaining equipment and supplies, identifying process improvements, and fostering positive working relationships with OR staff. The Lead Attendant serves as a subject matter expert, ensuring efficient and cost-effective utilization of resources while maintaining quality patient care. They also contribute to training programs for OR staff.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent or Graduate of a formal program or documented on-the-job training and two to three years of greater experience is required.
• 3 years minimum experience of OR Attendant/Surgical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Lead or supervisory experience

Responsibilities

• Directs, trains, motivates, assigns, and provides information to leadership for annual evaluations of Operating Room Attendant personnel.
• Handles staffing shortages, staffing complaints, floor assignments, PTO/SICK requests, call sign ups and emergency on-call procedures.
• Serves as the primary contact for the OR Attendant group and works with leadership to produce daily staffing assignment communication for charge nurses.
• Collaborates with leadership to provide personnel functions of interviewing, hiring, as well as guidance and counseling of Operating Room Attendants.
• Serves as preceptor to new staff and collaborates with leadership in clinical performance evaluations.
• Makes daily rounds/audits to inspect cleanliness of suites and other assigned areas.
• Maintains equipment and supplies within the OR Attendant group, determining specific needs and implementing necessary actions.
• Works closely with OR Leadership and serves as resource person regarding usage, replacement, purchase, and location of OR Attendant supplies and equipment.
• Identifies ways to improve work processes and improve customer/staff satisfaction, making recommendations to leadership on yearly goals.
• Maintains a positive working relationship with OR Staff, to ensure efficient utilization of OR Attendants throughout the day.
• Serves as professional and technical subject matter expert and resource person.
• Demonstrates competency to operate OR Attendant related equipment and supplies.
• Follows established departmental policies and procedures and participates in departmental quality assessment and improvement activities.
• Performs OR Attendant duties in a manner that is cost effective without compromising quality patient care.
• Prepares and presents OR Attendant orientation, in-services and training programs for all levels of OR staff in collaboration with the education department and OR leadership.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED