Overview

Fairview Health Services is hiring a Surgical Aide for the Operating Room at our M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital location in Maplewood, MN.

Schedule: This position will be working 0.8 FTE (64 hours every two weeks). The shift length will be 8 hours on the evening shift with a weekend rotation.

Benefits: This position is eligible for benefits. This includes medical, dental, HSA, and so much more! Please follow the link here to learn more information: https://www.fairview.org/benefits/noncontract

About our Operating Room at St. John’s:

• From the moment patients and visitors walk into St. John's Hospital, they experience our warm, inviting atmosphere and caring, personal staff. 

• We offer innovative technology.

• We have 8 innovative ORs which average around 20-30 cases per day.

• We are a Bariatric and Robotic Center of Excellence with General, Urology, GYN and Oncology being the largest volume of Robotic cases. Other services include Open Heart, sophisticated Neuro/Spine, Ortho, Podiatry, General, GYN, Urology, Colorectal, Plastics, ENT, Oral, and Vascular

• Free parking!

About Fairview:

Fairview Health Services is an industry-leading, award-winning nonprofit that offers an entire network of healthcare services. Fairview is one part of M Health Fairview, a partnership between the University of Minnesota, M Physicians and Fairview Health Services. Together, we combine the University’s deep history of clinical innovation and training with Fairview’s extensive roots in community medicine. Our care portfolio includes community hospitals, academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, facilitated living centers, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, counseling, pharmacies and benefit management services.

*Apply today to join our 34,000+ employees and 5,000+ system providers working to build lasting relationships with the people we serve: our patients, our communities, and each other. *

Responsibilities Job Description

As a Surgical Aide, you will be responsible for:

• Transporting patients to and from the operating room.

• Assisting with patient transfers on and off the operating room table. Assisting with positioning as advised.

• Assisting with operating room turnover between cases.

• Gathering operating room equipment and positioning devices as needed.

• Cleaning and returning equipment to the correct storage location.

• Restocking basic operating room and anesthesia supplies.

• Accessing medications or IV solutions only as required to perform normal job duties following all state and federal regulations regarding medication and IV solution security.

• Staging team case carts and equipment as advised.

• Checking and recording anesthesia refrigerator temperature and reporting discrepancies.

• Maintaining knowledge of, and complying with, all relevant laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards.

• Actively participating in creating and implementing improvements.

• Performing other responsibilities as needed/assigned.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent

• Basic Life Support (BLS) through Health Care Providers (or ability to obtain by hire date)

EEO Statement

EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status