Tissue Recovery Surgical Specialist

LifeNet Health•Richmond, VA

58d•$22 - $30

About The Position

Every day, YOU help us to save lives, restore health, and bring hope to patients and families around the world. At LifeNet Health, we cultivate growth, innovation, and collaboration, where your contributions drive solutions that benefit humanity. Together, we are united by a mission greater than ourselves, a purpose rooted in healing. ABOUT THIS JOB Location: Richmond, Virginia Department: Tissue Recovery Schedule: Full-Time | Shift work and On-Call. Holidays & Weekends as required; Overtime as needed. Travel 60% or more. Clinical Classification: Enhanced Clinical HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT As a Tissue Recovery Surgical Specialist, you’ll play a vital role in advancing our mission. In this position, you’ll be responsible for the sterile surgical recovery of clinical and research tissues, organs, and samples. You’ll perform all aspects of donor identification, assessment, and surgical preparation, as well as the post-recovery reconstruction and operative site restoration. You’ll work collaboratively with other team members to ensure accurate, quality, and efficient outcomes of the surgical processes ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures, and industry standards and regulations. You are responsible for maintaining their surgical recovery skills and will participate in training others. Your work will have purpose every single day, contributing directly to life-changing outcomes. Important: This role requires the ability to sit, stand, bend, walk, and lift up to 50 lbs. for the duration of the shift; as well as wear personal protective equipment to include surgical gowns, masks, visors or goggles, and caps.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED
Valid State Driver’s License
1 year of work experience in Tissue Recovery, Operating Room Tech, Scrub/Surgical Tech, EMT or Paramedic, Mortician or Embalmer, Pathology Assistant, Hospital Corpsman, Veterinary Surgical Tech, Eye/Cornea Recovery, Tissue Processing – or – 6 months of work experience at LifeNet Health in Tissue Recovery
Teamwork: Ability to be collaborative and work as part of a team to resolve issues, complete tasks and meet business needs.
Attention to Detail: Able to perform tasks thoroughly and with care; checks work to ensure high degree of accuracy/completeness and early/on-time delivery
Time Management: Able to prioritize multiple, competing priorities and manage time/workload. Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize and juggle multiple time sensitive projects, multi-task, identify project interdependencies and potential risks/pitfalls.
Compliance Skills: Ability to follow LifeNet Health and client procedures and industry regulations
Computer Skills: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, Microsoft Suite
Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate and build relationships with all professionals at different levels within the organization.
Initiative: Ability to motivate self in completing assigned tasks and proactively seek out opportunities for self and organizational improvement

Nice To Haves

Enhanced Identification: Valid State Enhanced (or “Real ID”) Driver's License and/or a current passport.
Certified LEAN Yellow Belt: Certification offered by LifeNet Health or an external accredited entity.
Certified Scrub Technician: Current certification from an accredited entity as an Operating Room Scrub Technician, or similar
CTBS: Certified Tissue Bank Specialist (CTBS) from the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB)
6 months of work experience at LifeNet Health in Tissue Recovery

Responsibilities

Preoperative & Postoperative Duties: Able to perform all duties and responsibilities of the Tissue Recovery Surgical Technician. Prepares recovery related supplies, instrumentation, and equipment for the authorized donation event. Evaluates recovery site suitability and ensures all pre- and post-recovery cleaning, set-up, and break-down events are performed according to site requirements and established company policies and procedures. Participates in the “time out” donor identification and authorization verification processes. Collects required testing samples prior to and during recovery, ensuring proper labeling of the collected samples. Assists with the completion and documentation of the donor Physical Assessment. Responsible for the post-operative donor care, including reconstruction, body identification, managing personal property, and preparation for transport. May participate in minimal charting.
Tissue Recovery: Performs the donor body positioning, surgical preparation, and sterile recovery field draping prior to recovery and as the recovery event progresses. Perform sterile hand preparation (scrub) and don aseptic gown and gloves. Performs the surgical recovery of tissues for transplant, whole organs and basic tissues for research, and associated samples for testing purposes. May function as a Trainer/Preceptor during tissue recovery cases for learners initiating their dissection training.
Post-Recovery and Support: Responsible for the preparation of recovered tissues and samples for shipment to the various processing and quarantine storage locations and environments. Responsible for supply, equipment, and instrument inventory, including rotation, count, ordering, receiving, and inspection. Assists with maintaining the Tissue Recovery dedicated spaces, including inspection, cleaning, organizing, and documentation. Assists with maintaining tissue, organ, and sample inventory, control, monitoring, and documentation. Assists with managing the fleet vehicles as assigned.
Quality & Continuous Improvement: Ensures quality outcomes of all work performed. Assists with the monitoring, development, and reporting of KPI and departmental metrics. Assists with completion of the Zone Assessment Guide and other audit readiness activities. Participates in departmental and organizational LEAN projects and initiatives. Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Affordable Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage- Comprehensive care that won’t break the bank.
Profit Sharing Plan- Share in the success you help create.
403(b) Retirement Plan- Invest in your future with confidence.
Paid Parental Leave- 6 weeks to bond with your newest family member.
Corporate Sponsored Events- Celebrate milestones and build connections.
Generous Paid Time Off- Because balance matters: 18 vacation days (based on position, tenure, and state laws) 9 sick days (subject to local and state regulations) 9 holidays (7 standard + 2 floating)
Flexible Work Program- For approved roles, how and where you perform best.
Tuition reimbursement- We invest in your growth and education.
Career & Leadership Development- Expand your impact and potential.
Wellness Program- Prioritize your health with holistic resources.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)- Support for you and your household.
Incredible teammates- Collaborate with passionate, dedicated professionals.