The Malvern Surgery Center is seeking a Anesthesia Technician Supervisor to join the team! The Anesthesia Technician Supervisor is responsible for daily operational support to include serving as a resource for anesthesia providers; this includes participation in operating room turnovers, stocking supplies in the operating rooms, assisting with regional anesthesia blocks, assisting with difficult airways, assisting with specimen/laboratory transports, managing special purchasing, shipping, and receiving of supplies, responding to recalls, managing medical gas tank par levels (oxygen, carbon dioxide, medical air, and nitrous oxide), maintaining difficult airway supplies/expirations, maintaining malignant hyperthermia cart supplies/expirations, daily equipment checks, serving as an interdepartmental resource, contributing to quality improvement initiatives, and contributing to cost reduction initiatives.

The Anesthesia Technician Supervisor is accountable for collaborating/consulting with anesthesia providers/technicians to include Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Surgery Center, Deptford in adherence to state and federal regulations and organizational anesthesia policies/procedures, reliable methods, and standard practices.

The Anesthesia Technician Supervisor is expected to maintain all state and federal clearances for PA, DE, and NJ for collaboration with and periodic rotation to the Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and the Nemours Children's Hospital, Surgery Center, Deptford to optimize available resources in achieving optimal patient outcomes. Travel is compensated based on organizational Regular FTE 1.0

• Schedule: 40 hours per week; No Weekends, No Holidays, No Call

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to support daily operations in compliance with the standards established by regulatory agencies and the organization.
• Responsible for maintaining a clean and safe work environment for patients, families, and associates to include, although not limited to, the surgical suite, anesthesia work room, pre/post-surgical care area, utility rooms, and hallways.
• Responsible for daily preparation, calibration, confirmation of function, and cleaning of anesthesia and surgical equipment after use and in preparation for future use to include, although not limited to, ventilation systems, infusion pumps, IV fluids, pulse oximeters, ECG monitors, oxygen analyzers, airway gas monitors, ultrasound machines, warming devices, surgical tables, stretchers, endoscopy video equipment, cast saw, etc.
• Responsible for monitoring, ordering, maintaining, and managing medical gases to include replacing oxygen cylinders on patient stretchers, walk-about oxygen tanks in the operating rooms, carbon dioxide tanks on the video towers, and oxygen and nitrous oxide tanks on the anesthesia machines.
• Responsible for routine audits of disposable supplies for integrity, par levels, and expiration.
• Responsible for monitoring routine audits of equipment preventative maintenance in cooperation with Biomedical Engineering that includes documentation and other corresponding records are managed/maintained appropriately.
• Demonstrates knowledge of inventory control and par level maintenance through demand flow to include scanning and special ordering of supplies in cooperation with the Materials Management Lead Supply Technician, Perioperative Services Supply & Logistics Manager, and Patient Flow Supervisor, and surgical team members.
• Coordinates with surgeons, Clinical Operations Leader, Service Coordinators, Lead Surgical Technologists, Lead SPD Technician, and vendors to prepare for surgical cases utilizing procedure cards and receiving/returning loaner instrumentation.
• Responsible for coordination of ordering, receiving, storing, and returning human tissue grafts with surgeons, Clinical Operations Leader, Implant Coordinator, and approved vendors per regulatory and organizational policies and procedures.
• Responsible for coordinating transportation of specimens to the appropriate locations.
• Responsible for participating in departmental and hospital quality programs and continuous improvement events to maintain and improve departmental and individual productivity and performance

Qualifications:

1. High School Diploma required
2. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association required
3. American Society of Anesthesia Technologists and Technicians (ASATT) preferred