Tissue Recovery Surgical Technician

AT LIFENET HEALTH, YOU ARE THE ADVANTAGE

Every day, YOU help us to save lives, restore health, and bring hope to patients and families around the world. At LifeNet Health, we cultivate growth, innovation, and collaboration, where your contributions drive solutions that benefit humanity.

Together, we are united by a mission greater than ourselves, a purpose rooted in healing.

ABOUT THIS JOB

Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia

Department: Tissue Recovery

Schedule: Full-Time | Shift work and On-Call. Holidays & Weekends as required; Overtime as needed. Travel 60% or more.

Clinical Classification: Enhanced Clinical

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

As a Tissue Recovery Surgical Technician, you’ll play a vital role in advancing our mission. In this position, you’ll be responsible for preparation, maintenance and restoration of the surgical environment through completion of the recovery case. Responsible for anticipating the needs of the team to maintain progression of the surgical processes. The Surgical Technician functions as the non-sterile team member managing supplies, fields, pace, timelines, ensuring a complete and accurate recovery record is concurrently created and finalized by the end of the case. This role may also be trained to perform the back table processes during the recovery, to include performing the aseptic packaging and maintenance of recovered tissues and samples.

Your work will have purpose every single day, contributing directly to life-changing outcomes.

Important: This role requires the ability to sit, stand, bend, walk, and lift up to 50 lbs. for the duration of the shift; as well as wear personal protective equipment to include surgical gowns, masks, visors or goggles, and caps.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Preoperative Duties: Gathers, inspects, and prepares recovery supplies and instrumentation necessary for the case. Responsible for concurrent documentation in the donor record as pre-recovery processes are performed. Assists Case Lead with performing the donor physical assessment for recovery eligibility determination. Participates in the “time out” verification processes. Assists with pre-recovery environment, sterile field, and donor preparation processes, to include but not limited to moving and positioning the donor body, opening sterile fields, solutions, supplies, and instrumentation, and the completion of the sterile surgical prep processes. Assists the surgical team with aseptic gowning and gloving.
• Intraoperative Duties: Prepares and anticipates additional instrumentation, equipment and supplies for usage during the recovery procedure. Aseptically receives and verifies labeling of packaged recovered tissues, organs, and other samples from the surgical team. Breaks down and sets up additional sterile fields and supplies as the recovery advances. Assists surgical team with the repositioning and surgical preparation of the donor between tissue recovery zones. Concurrently documents in the donor record all activities and results of the intraoperative processes.
• Postoperative Duties: Breaks down sterile fields and appropriately discards unused and contaminated supplies. Performs instrument and equipment cleaning and decontamination post-recovery. Leads team in the labeling review and verification of all recovered tissues, organs, and samples. Performs post-recovery cleaning and restoration of the recovery environment. Assists team with all other post-recovery activities, including but not limited to donor reconstruction and transport, restocking supplies, and preparing shipments of recovered tissues, samples, instrumentation and equipment. Concurrently documents results of all postoperative processes in the donor record.
• Quality & Continuous Improvement: Ensures quality outcomes of all work performed. Ensures accurate and timely completion and release of the donor record within established timeframes. Assists with the monitoring, development, and reporting of personal and departmental KPIs and metrics. Assists with completion of the Zone Assessment Guide and