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Job Title

Operating Room Service Assistant

                        

Location

Cleveland

                    

Facility

Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

                     

Department

OR Ent-Surgical Operations

                      

Job Code

G15000

                     

Shift

Variable

                       

Schedule

6:00am-2:30pm

                       

Job Summary

Assists in transporting patients and sets up Operating Room, maintains and operates special equipment in the Operating Room as required. Provides limited assistance to surgeons (holding limb/retractors, suctioning, sponging wound).

                         

Job Details

Responsibilities:

• Maintains surgical instrument sets and equipment and ensures proper sterile conditions.
• Cleans used instruments after surgery (this process may require assembly and maintenance of some instruments for proper cleaning and sterilization).
• Ensures proper sterile conditions, orders supplies, stocks, and maintains storage areas in the Operating Room for service.
• Assists in transporting patients.
• Assists RN in maintaining a safe environment for the patient.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education:

• High School Diploma.

Certifications:

• Sterile processing certification preferred.

Complexity of Work:

• Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment.

Work Experience:

• Minimum two (2) years experience in sterile processing preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Frequently lifts and carries items weighing up to 25 pounds and ability to push, pull, and navigate supply carts weighing up to 200 pounds.
• Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
• Requires working under stressful conditions of working irregular hours.
• Requires some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

                       

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