Operating Room Liaison, Main OR, Full Time Days, Baptist Jacksonville Downtown

Job Summary

Baptist Health is looking for an experienced Operating Room Liasion to support our Main Operating Room and Central Sterile Services Department at Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville. This position will be a full time days position at out Downtown Campus. This position is for the 11am-730pm shift. This position prefers both Surgical Technologist and Sterile Procesing Technician knowledge and expereince. 

As an Operationg Room Liasion, your responsibilities will include: 

• Coordinates and oversees daily activities between the Operating Room (OR) and Central Sterile Services Department to facilitate efficient case flow.
• Assists in projects and process improvement initiatives in compliance with policies and procedures, goals, objectives and initiatives.
• Promotes customer service and satisfaction through training, education, and resolution of staff and physician issues and concerns.
• Maintains knowledge of cleaning, assembling, packaging, & sterilization of instruments and equipment according to the IFUs, A.A.M.I, and IACHSMM current standards.
• Demonstrates awareness of personal and work area safety at all times; using evidence based practices and complying with facility safety policies and procedures in carrying out duties includingthose for blood borne pathogens and communicable diseases.
• Must keep knowledge current on aseptic techniques and basic microbiology sufficient to understand the ways diseases and infections are transmitted and the importance of clean and sterile supplies in patient care;
• Attend training in new and improved sterilization practices and developments in the microbiology, bacteriology, and therapeutic practices as they affect the sterile supply operation.
• Sterilizes OR instrumentation in the OR area.
• *CRCST required within one year

This Operarting Room Liasion supporting the Main Operating Room will be located at Baptist Jacksonville. Baptist Jacksonville is a designated Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in patient care. If you are interested in this opportunity please apply

Education Required

High School Diploma/GED

Education Preferred

Associate's Degree

Experience

• 1-2 years Surgical Technologist Experience

License and Certification

• Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST). Required
• Certification Sterile Processing and Distribution Technician (CSPDT) Required Or
• Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) Preferred

Location

Location Overview

For more than 20 years, health care consumers have named Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville the "most preferred healthcare provider" in the region. As the central hub of the Baptist Health system, Baptist Jacksonville provides the highest level of medical and surgical care using the latest technologies, such as the robotic-assisted da Vinci™ Surgical System. Centrally located on the beautiful St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville, Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville is Baptist Health's flagship tertiary-care hospital. Designated as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in patient care, Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville has repeatedly been named among U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals.” The hospital has also been ranked as high performing in more than 10 specialties from neurology and neurosurgery to gynecology, diabetes, endocrinology,oncology and more.  Baptist Health also has a new Stroke & Cerebrovascular Center, which is a regional epicenter for advanced treatment of strokes, aneurysms and other brain conditions.  As one of 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare in the U.S. by Modern Healthcare, Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville is located close to sports, theater and music venues, museums, shopping and dining.