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Exemption Status:

Exempt

Schedule Details:

Monday through Friday

Scheduled Hours:

6:30am - 5:00pm

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 10 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

40

Cost Center:

10010 - 2110 Operating Room

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 16,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

I. Major Responsibilities:
1. Constructs assignments in conjunction with the OR Service Group Managers based on patient, surgeon, and anesthesiology requirements.
2. Monitors on-time case starts for both elective and assigned urgent/emergent cases.
3. Maintains active communication among surgeons, anesthesiology staff, nursing staff, sterile processing staff, and other ancillary departments, ensuring schedule progression and issue resolution.
4. Works to maintain the daily elective schedule as planned by implementing accurate schedule plans and a pre-established means of addressing urgent and emergent schedule access.
5. Proactively reviews future schedules (next day, three days, and one week in advance) with the scheduler to address the need for scheduling adjustments and coordinates advanced schedule situations with respective OR Service Group Managers and Anesthesiologists.
6. Manages the day-to-day operations of the OR schedule, including practice standards, staffing, and quality assurance.
7. Motivates and manages assigned employees, equipment and materials.  
8. Provides assignments to perioperative staff members in collaboration with OR Service Group Managers and ensures staff assignments are appropriate to the skill level of personnel.
9. Participates in schedule preparation, taking into consideration team limitations, case types, urgent/emergent demands, and case start times and lengths.
10. Collaborates with the anesthesiologist in charge to ensure that the schedule runs efficiently in accordance with policies and procedures.  Serves as a professional leadership role model.
11. Communicates routinely with OR Service Group Managers regarding the status of cases.
12. Makes rounds and maintains awareness of the level of patient care being performed in the Surgical Admissions Care Unit (SACU) and Post Anesthia Care Unit (PACU).  Instructs and corrects policy or procedure errors, as necessary.
13. Provides direct patient care as needed.

Standard Management Level Responsibilities:
1. Directs and supervises assigned personnel including performance evaluations, scheduling, orientation, and training.  Makes recommendations on employee hires, transfers, promotions, salary changes, discipline, terminations, and similar actions.  Resolves grievances and other personnel problems within position responsibilities.
2. Develops and recommends the budgets for the areas managed. Manages activities to assure financial goals are met.
3. Coordinates the assignment of tasks and helps resolve technical and operational problems. Evaluates the impact of solutions to ensure goals are achieved.
4. Provides effective direction, guidance, and leadership over the staff for effective teamwork and motivation, and fosters the effective integration of efforts with system-wide initiatives.
5. Encourages and supports diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, respect, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and visitors.
6. Integrates diversity into departmental objectives, such as hiring, promotions, training, vendor selections, etc.
7. Participates in performance improvement initiatives and demonstrates the use of quality improvement in daily operations.
8. Ensures compliance with regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission, DPH, etc.  Develops and maintain