Surg Technologist Lead

About the Role

Inova Alexandria Hospital is looking for a Surgical Technologist Lead dedicated to join the team. This role will be FT days 7:00 AM-5:30 PM 4 days a week. Days will be rotating.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a clinical leader and resource in an Inova Operating Room (OR)
• Assists OR Service Leader to ensure unit compliance with quality, safety, regulatory requirements, and JCAHO standards
• Assists the OR Service Leader in analyzing data, ensuring team adherence to performance standards, and improving processes continuously
• Provides mentoring to the OR team
• Works collaboratively and has respect for and understanding of other clinical disciplines
• Uses and demonstrates clinical expertise in the assessment of staff learning needs, capabilities, and readiness
• Demonstrates superior knowledge of aseptic and surgical techniques in the role of surgical technologist
• Serves as primary liaison and information resource for specialty
• Oversees the provision of therapeutic care in a holistic, evidence-based environment that produces excellent patient care with optimal patient outcomes
• Supports the OR Service Leader's goals
• Interacts with and contributes to the professional growth of Surgical Tech team members, colleagues, and others
• Ensures efficient functioning of the specialty service and achievement of optimal patient outcomes
• Identifies clinical and operational variables affecting patient and case outcomes
• Anticipates variances and adjusts care proactively, utilizing required resources
• Articulates the type, scope, and frequency of clinical and case variables affecting outcomes, including patient condition or special needs, equipment availability or functionality, and physician requests
• Ensures needs are met time of case
• Extrapolates patient's, physicians, or case needs from previous experiences
• Creates individualized plan(s) of care
• Engages other clinical professionals to assist in responding to possible problems
• Provides clear and appropriate information and documentation for routine and complex cases
• Documents on case status and ensures perioperative briefing and debriefing are completed with the team
• Reports any change in patient status or patient requirements of the population
• Coordinates the delivery of appropriate services for specialty, physician group, and population
• Facilitates seamless transitions between pre-, intra-, and post-operative patient care
• Assists, both directly and indirectly, with room turnover
• Ensures surgical pause is performed according to procedure
• Ensures hand-off to PACU meets established criteria and monitors delay reasons
• Acts as a change agent
• Serves as a liaison to other departments
• Meets with Sterile Processing leadership regularly to maximize instrumentation resources
• Serves as primary liaison and information resource for specialty
• Serves as a physician liaison and primary information resource and contact for the specialty
• Monitors clinical, efficiency, and SCIP performance indicators on a daily basis
• Assists the director with unit participation in emergency preparedness activities
• Conducts education and coordinates emergency and trauma surgical skills and participates in unit-specific dri

Qualifications

• Basic Life Support Upon Start
• Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) via NBSTSA or Tech in Surgery – Certified (TS-C) via NCCT
• Registered Surgical Technologist Upon Start; Registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Surgical Technologist at time of hire
• 3 years of Surgical Technologist experience (Ortho and Spine)
• High School diploma or equivalent

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program
• Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost

Schedule

FT days 7:00 AM-5:30 PM 4 days a week. Days will be rotating.