Job Description

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.

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Job Title

Howley ASPIRE Pathways - OR Service Assistant

Location

Cleveland

Facility

Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

Department

Job Code

G15000

Shift

Days

Schedule

7:00am-7:30pmAssists 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).

The Howley ASPIRE Pathways Program is an enrichment program sponsored by Cleveland Clinic and The Howley Foundation. This enrichment program is designed for high school seniors interested in pursuing a career in Surgical Technology.

The Howley ASPIRE Pathways Program focuses on providing participants with career information and critical skill sets to support their matriculation through higher education, post-secondary school, and beyond.

This position is for existing students in the Howley ASPIRE Pathways program and will connect students to PRN OR Service Assistant opportunities as part of their continuing education.

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.

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.

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