Organ Placement Coordinator - Abdominal Transplant Services

Job Description

Join our team as a variable shift, full-time, hybrid, Organ Placement Coordinator, INTEGRIS HEALTH Abdominal Transplant Department, in Oklahoma City, OK.


Get to Know Your Team:

• INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma's largest not-for-profit health system, is seeking a dedicated caregiver to join us in our mission to partner with people to live healthier lives.
• Benefits of being an INTEGRIS Health caregiver include front-loaded PTO, medical benefits through the extensive INTEGRIS Health network, financial assistance for continued education, 24/7 mental health support and more.
• Take the first step toward growing your career by joining us.

Responsibilities

The Organ Placement Coordinator is a clinical caregiver that functions as a specialized member of the transplant team and provides 24-hour call coverage for the abdominal solid organ transplant programs for organ offer management/ donor call service, along with patient, physician, and hospital calls. This clinical caregiver will work in conjunction with OPOs (Organ Procurement Organizations), on call transplant surgeons and physicians, along with hospital staff to arrange for the successful transplantation of organs. T

The Organ Placement Coordinator responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Manages all aspects of deceased donor transplants, from notification of organ offer to offer acceptance through transplantation.
• Assesses the suitability and prepares the potential transplant/organ recipient and live donor for solid organ transplantation.
• Applies recipient and cadaver/live donor selection criteria at time of transplant and coordinates preoperative care for cadaver/live donor and recipient.
• Communicate timely and accurately with transplant surgeons and physicians related to organ offers and with the OPO.
• Notify, schedule, and update all transplants, HLA lab, OPO, and hospital team members through all phases of transplant, donor recovery, pre- transplant admission, OR and anesthesia scheduling and post-transplant.
• Arranges all transportation for organ recovery and/ or organ transport as required.
• Contacts transplant recipients(s) for triage/ assessment of current status with appropriate documentation and report back to the transplant physicians for determination of candidacy.
• Complete all required UNET documentation at time of organ offer, for acceptance and denial of organs and at time of pre- and post-transplant.
• Complete all required notification and documentation required by transplant program and OPTN.
• The Organ Placement Coordinator reports to the Abdominal Transplant Nurse Manager.
• Receive patient phone calls and triage based on program criteria.
• Receive outside physician/hospital calls related to transplant program patients and manage appropriate care per program criteria.
• Assumes shifts as assigned by manager.

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Job Requirements: License and Certifications:

• AAH-RMA (American Allied Health-Registered Medical Assistant) OR AAMA-CMA (American Association of Medical Assistants-Certified Medical Assistant) OR AAMP-RMA (American Association of Medical Personnel-Registered Medical Assistant) OR ARMA-RMA (American Registry of Medical Assistants-Registered Medical Assistant) OR AMT-RMA (American Medical Technologists-Registered Medical Assistant) OR NCCT-NCMA (National Center for Competency Testing-Nationally Certified Medical Assistant) OR NHA-CCMA (National Healthcareer Association-Certified Clinical Medical Assistant) OR ABR-OE (Assessment-Based Recognition in Order Entry) or other nationally recognized credentialing allowing for electronic medical heath record (EHR) order entry.
• BLS (Basic Life Support) Issued by American Red Cross or American Heart Association within 30 days of hire
• 3 years of clinical experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

EXPERIENCE:

• Previous Transplant Experience
  
  
  INTEGRIS Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration regardless of membership in any protected status as defined by applicable state or federal law, including protected veteran or disability status.

About Us

INTEGRIS Health mission: Partnering with people to live healthier lives.

To our patients, that means we will partner to provide unprecedented access to quality and compassionate health care. To you, it means some of the state's best career and development opportunities. With INTEGRIS Health, you will have a genuine chance to make a difference in your life and your career.

INTEGRIS Health is the state's largest Oklahoma-owned health system with hospitals, rehabilitation centers, physician clinics, mental health facilities and home health agencies throughout much of the state.