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Job TitleOR Service Assistant

                        

LocationAvon

                    

FacilityAvon Hospital

                     

DepartmentSurgery Administration-Avon Hospital

                      

Job CodeG15000

                     

ShiftDay/Evening/Night/Weekend

                       

Schedule7:30am-3:30pm

                       

Job Summary

                         

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Avon Hospital provides state-of-the-art healthcare to all its patients and is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. This designation is the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice.  

As an Operating Room (OR) Service Assistant, you will assist in transporting patients and setting up the OR for caregivers. In an environment grounded in advanced technology and innovative treatment, you will gain valuable hands-on experience in various medical instruments, procedures, sterilization processes and more. From here, you can go on to explore advanced career paths, pursue professional development resources and find your place within our family of caregivers. 

A caregiver in this role works days/evenings/nights/weekends from 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

Maintain surgical instrument sets and equipment and ensure proper sterile conditions.  

Provide limited assistance to surgeons (e.g., holding limb/retractors, suctioning, sponging wounds).  

Clean used instruments after surgery (e.g., assembly and maintenance of some instruments for proper cleaning and sterilization).  

Ensure proper sterile conditions, order supplies and stocks and maintain storage areas in the Operating Room for service.  

Assist in transporting patients.  

Assist RN in maintaining a safe environment for the patient. 

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

High School Diploma/GED 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

Sterile Processing Certification 

Two years of experience in sterile processing 

Experience as an anesthesia technician

Experience working in a procedural area

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.

                       

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility. 

If applying for a Florida position, please see the following website for more information on the background screening requirements required by the Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/

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Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.