Labor and Delivery Technician at Cambridge Health Alliance in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts

Labor and Delivery Technician

The Maternity Suite at Cambridge Hospital is a beautiful unit with lovely views of downtown Boston and Harvard Square. It includes a Labor and Delivery (L&D) Unit and a Post Partum Unit and helps more than 1,100 growing families every year. The 7-bed Labor Unit has 3 triage bays and 2 ORs. We are proud of our multidisciplinary patient care, our culturally sensitive approach to labor and delivery, and some of the lowest C-section rates in Massachusetts. The Post Partum Unit consists of 12 private rooms with a level 1b continuing care nursery. This unit provides care for mothers and infants right after birth and through the early stages of postpartum to discharge. We foster a culturally sensitive approach to couplet care and early family bonding.

The primary responsibilities of the Labor and Delivery Technician are to maintain constant readiness to scrub for surgical procedures in L&D and to ensure all equipment and supplies are available. The L&D Tech is responsible for maintaining precise order in the operating rooms ensuring all supplies and equipment are available and easily accessible at all times.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintains ongoing communication with L&D charge RN and ensures charge RN is aware if L&D Tech is off the unit at any time.
• Scrubs for cesarean sections and any other surgical procedures done in the labor and delivery operating rooms including D&C, hysterectomy, retained products, laceration repairs, tubal ligations.
• Maintains aseptic technique and remains in operating room once room has been opened per AORN standards.
• Set up and break down of operating room in an efficient manner to expedite turnover.
• Checks levels of equipment and supplies to proactively ensure appropriate levels to meet current and prospective patient population (includes fetal monitors and infant warmers).
• Orders and puts away supplies.
• Checks equipment and supplies for outdates on a monthly basis (includes fetal monitors and infant warmers).
• Cleans shelves and cabinets on a monthly basis in both operating rooms and the OR storage area. Includes fetal monitors and infant warmers.
• Develops and maintains surgical preference cards for all providers and ensures all cards are up to date at all times.
• Checks Code Buttons on a daily basis.
• Assist the other members of the team to ensure seamless flow and safe patient care.
• Maintain accuracy of personnel on EPIC L&D Manager.
• Set up and break down delivery tables.
• Stocks scrub cart and ensures adequacy of scrubs.

Qualifications

• Education/Training: High School Diploma or equivalent Graduate of an accredited surgical technologist program
• Certifications: American Heart Association BLS certification & CST certification required
• Work Experience: Minimum 2 years current surgical technologist experience required

Location: CHA Cambridge Hospital

Work Days: 12-hour shifts, 6:00pm - 6:00am, rotating weekends and holidays

Department: Labor and Delivery

Job Type: Full time

Work Shift: Evening / Night

Hours/Week: 36.00

Union Name: Cambridge Laborers - Local 380