Tissue Recovery Surgical Technician

LifeNet Health•Richmond, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At LifeNet Health, you are the advantage. 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. As a Tissue Recovery Surgical Technician, you’ll play a vital role in advancing our mission. In this position, you’ll be responsible for preparation, maintenance and restoration of the surgical environment through completion of the recovery case. Responsible for anticipating the needs of the team to maintain progression of the surgical processes. The Surgical Technician functions as the non-sterile team member managing supplies, fields, pace, timelines, ensuring a complete and accurate recovery record is concurrently created and finalized by the end of the case. This role may also be trained to perform the back table processes during the recovery, to include performing the aseptic packaging and maintenance of recovered tissues and samples. Your work will have purpose every single day, contributing directly to life-changing outcomes.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED
Valid State Driver’s License
1 year of work experience
Must be able to meet all credentialling requirements of area hospitals and other recovery facilities.
Ability to sit, stand, bend, walk, and lift up to 50 lbs. for the duration of the shift
Ability to wear personal protective equipment to include surgical gowns, masks, visors or goggles, and caps.
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 White Belt: Certification offered by LifeNet Health or an external accredited entity.
1 year of work experience as Operating Room Tech, Scrub/Surgical Tech, EMT or Paramedic, Mortician or Embalmer, Pathology Assistant

Responsibilities

Gathers, inspects, and prepares recovery supplies and instrumentation necessary for the case.
Responsible for concurrent documentation in the donor record as pre-recovery processes are performed.
Assists Case Lead with performing the donor physical assessment for recovery eligibility determination.
Participates in the “time out” verification processes.
Assists with pre-recovery environment, sterile field, and donor preparation processes, to include but not limited to moving and positioning the donor body, opening sterile fields, solutions, supplies, and instrumentation, and the completion of the sterile surgical prep processes.
Assists the surgical team with aseptic gowning and gloving.
Prepares and anticipates additional instrumentation, equipment and supplies for usage during the recovery procedure.
Aseptically receives and verifies labeling of packaged recovered tissues, organs, and samples from the surgical team.
Breaks down and sets up additional sterile fields and supplies as the recovery advances.
Assists surgical team with the repositioning and surgical preparation of the donor between tissue recovery zones.
Concurrently documents in the donor record all activities and results of the intraoperative processes.
Breaks down sterile fields and appropriately discards unused and contaminated supplies.
Performs instrument and equipment cleaning and decontamination post-recovery.
Leads team in the labeling review and verification of all recovered tissues, organs, and samples.
Performs post-recovery cleaning and restoration of the recovery environment.
Assists team with all other post-recovery activities, including but not limited to donor reconstruction and transport, restocking supplies, and preparing shipments of recovered tissues, samples, instrumentation and equipment.
Concurrently documents results of all postoperative processes in the donor record.
Ensures quality outcomes of all work performed.
Ensures accurate and timely completion and release of the donor record within established timeframes.
Assists with the monitoring, development, and reporting of personal and departmental KPIs and metrics.
Assists with completion of the Zone Assessment Guide and other audit readiness activities.
Participates in departmental and organizational LEAN projects and initiatives.
Participates in departmental training sessions and meetings.
Other duties as assigned.