Operating Room Attendant

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your job is more than a job.

As a member of the operating room team, your top priority as an Operating Room Attendant is a safe and comfortable surgical experience for every patient.

That means ensuring all transport equipment is available, sterile, and in working order when needed. Your personality and professionalism shines through assisting in transportation of patients to and from surgery.

Calm, cool, and proactive, you’re a team player as you work alongside physicians, families, visitors, peers and other departments.

You thrive on helping others, focus on the little things, and organize like nobody’s business. Ready, willing, and able, no task is too small, and no smile is too big. Can we clone you?

Your experiences, knowledge, skills, your empathy, compassion, personality, all of it adds up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this supportive surgical team role.

Your Everyday

Assist the transporting patients to and from surgery.

Ensures all movable equipment is safely stored, supplies are removed from hallways and stored in respective spaces.

Report nonfunctional or broken equipment to management.

Assist in maintaining adequate inventory levels.

Identify specific patients accurately and ready patients for transport to surgery.

Use appropriate cleaning solutions after each use of equipment.

Assist the operating team with turnover between cases.

Interact with patients, families, visitors, fellow employees to ensure a professional and courteous environment.

Attend all required safety training programs and maintain responsibilities related to general safety, department or service safety, and specific job-related hazards.

Ability to communicate effectively and to perform simple mathematical calculations with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

Perform duties using standard precautions and OSHA guidelines.

The Must-Haves

Minimum :

High School Diploma / GED or equivalent experience in a related field with six months to one year of experience in a clinical or hospital setting.

American Heart Association BLS certification.

WORK SHIFT :

Variable Hours (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way.

Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little come on in attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

About University Medical Center

University Medical Center, a world class academic medical center in LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, is the largest medical training center for healthcare professionals in Louisiana and has long served as the region’s safety net hospital for poor and underserved communities for +.

Learn more about University Medical Center’s legacy and our vision of becoming the epicenter of medical care, education, and research.

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work.

This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

Simple things make the difference.

1.To get started, take your time to fully and accurately complete the application for employment. Incomplete applications get bogged down and are often eliminated due to missing information.

2.To ensure quality care and service, we may use information on your application to verify your previous employment and background.

3.To keep our career applications up-to-date, applications are inactive after 6 months and, therefore, require a new application for employment to be completed.

4.To expedite the hiring process, proof of citizenship or immigration status will be required to verify your lawful right to work in the United States.

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