Supervisor of Perfusion

About the role

The Supervisor, Perfusion, oversees Perfusion services delivery and quality, including extracorporeal circulation equipment operation. They also manage staffing, supplies, and resources, interview, counsel, and complete performance evaluations, and facilitate goal setting and communication within the department.

Responsibilities

• Oversees Perfusion services delivery and quality, including extracorporeal circulation equipment operation.
• Selects appropriate equipment and techniques timely, accurately, and cost-efficiently, following System and regulatory standards, policies, and procedures.
• Ensures adequate staffing, supplies, and resources for Perfusion services to meet clinical demands.
• Schedules, monitors, evaluates, and modifies staffing patterns to provide services.
• Interviews, counsels, and completes performance evaluations and merit reviews.
• Trains new staff and ensures all registrations and certifications are current and on file.
• Promotes a culture of service excellence and patient-centeredness through multidisciplinary staff meetings and goal setting.
• Maintains all perfusion equipment and supplies at par levels.
• Collaborates with management to promote a culture of service excellence and patient-centeredness.
• Facilitates reward and recognition.
• Acts as a liaison to other departments.
• Develops and maintains cooperative relationships with physicians and medical departments.
• Gathers and exchanges information, develops and deploys solutions to problems.
• Helps in ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory and accrediting standards and departmental policies and protocols.
• Provides patient care in the form of operation of the extracorporeal circulation equipment as required due to workload of complexity.

Requirements

• Knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, chemistry and biology.
• Knowledge of several cardiac diseases, defects and congenital anomalies.
• Knowledge of sterile and perfusion supplies: extracorporeal oxygenators, tubing circuits, and cannulae for adult, pediatric and infants.
• Knowledge of arteries, veins, organs, and specific blood flow paths in the body, including pressures and gas exchange in adult, pediatric, and infant patients.
• Knowledge of blood components, plasma composition, and use of blood products with extracorporeal circuits and devices.
• Skills in operating extracorporeal circulation and autotransfusion equipment.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to make tactical choices about allocating and directing supervised employees' work using established guidelines, policies, or procedures.
• Ability to make effective hiring and termination recommendations.
• Ability to train, and evaluate performance of supervised staff.
• General computer skills including Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 3 years of experience.
• Certified Clinical Perfusionist (CCP).
• Licensed Perfusionist (PERFUSIO).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification within 30 days of hire or transfer.