OR Service Assistant - Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC)

OR Service Assistant - Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC)

When you join the Cleveland Clinic's Strongsville Family Health and Surgery Center team, you become a caregiver at one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. This patient-friendly facility offers a wide array of services to provide patients with unparalleled care and support. Here, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless appreciation and build a rewarding career.

As an Operating Room (OR) Service Assistant, you will support caregivers by transporting patients and preparing the OR for procedures. Working in an environment focused on advanced technology and innovative patient care, you will gain valuable hands-on experience with medical instruments, surgical procedures, sterilization processes, and perioperative support.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to build foundational clinical experience while exploring advanced career paths, professional development opportunities, and long-term growth within our caregiver community.

A caregiver in this position works full-time| days| 6:30am3:00pm.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• 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.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• High School Diploma / GED

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Sterile Processing Certification
• Two years of experience in sterile processing
• Prior experience working in an OR setting or with direct patient care experience

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.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

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