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WI-St. Agnes Hospital
Regular
Job Highlights:
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St Agnes Hospital is looking for a passionate Anesthesia Technician to join our Surgical Team! This role is scheduled 40 hours per week 8:00 am - 4:30 pm with a call rotation every 3rd week (2 weeks off, one week on). Shift differentials are available! Candidates must be able to report within 45 minutes for call shifts.
Experience as an Anesthesia Technician or completion of an Anesthesia Technician program is highly preferred.
Benefit information
- Comprehensive suite of health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, 401k, HAS/FSA, and generous PTO
- Daily Pay for qualifying positions
- Established employee recognition program
- Commitment to employee wellness through our EAP, well-being checks with leaders, flexible work schedule where feasible, and online wellness opportunities. Select locations also offer free on-site fitness center access, meditation rooms, and serenity gardens
- A culture that supports professional development including tuition reimbursement and discounts, participations in the Federal Loan Forgiveness Program, professional development days, opportunities for career advancement and much more
- 40% discount on eyeglasses through SSM Health Eye Care Optical Shops at select locations
- Employee Relief Fund to help with life’s unexpected financial emergencies
- Commitment to caring through philanthropy, volunteer opportunities, and PTO donation program
Job Summary:
Performs a number of duties in assisting the professional staff in setting-up, calibrating, disinfection and operating anesthesia equipment. Orders, obtains, stocks and distributes anesthesia supplies to carts.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Checks, cleans and maintains anesthesia machine monitors including changing oxygen cylinders, refilling anesthesia gases, changing CO2 absorbent and ensuring equipment is in good working order.
- Assists in set-ups of anesthesia equipment as needed.
- Orders, obtains and stocks sterile solution surgical supplies to specified storage cabinets, including automated dispensing systems/cabinets.
- Orders and maintains inventories of supplies in anesthesia and related areas. Ensures anesthesia carts are appropriately stocked.
- Ensures malfunctioning equipment is serviced and proper infection control and regulatory guidelines are followed.
- Assists in operating room turn-over by disinfecting anesthesia work surfaces, monitor cables and connecting a clean anesthesia circuit to the anesthesia machine.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent reaching and gripping.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Occasional bending, stooping, climbing, kneeling, squatting, twisting and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Occasional use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
- Rare crawling, sitting and keyboard use/data entry.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)
Employee
4000000038 Anesthesiology Providers
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
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