Operating Room (OR) Service Assistant

About the role

Join Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus where research and surgery are advanced, technology is leading-edge, patient care is world class and caregivers are family. Here, you will work alongside a passionate and dedicated team, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. As an Operating Room (OR) Service Assistant I in Robotics, you will assist with patient transport and operating room setup, including room turnover, ensuring equipment and supplies are ready for procedures, running labs, and transporting blood and materials.

Responsibilities

• Lifting, pushing, walking, mopping, taking out trash, and moving hospital beds.
• 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.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED

Preferred qualifications:

• Sterile Processing Certification
• Two years of experience in sterile processing

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.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement (for eligible caregivers)