REF 1516563
27.04.2024 | Ras Al Khaimah | full time
- General
- Location: Ras Al Khaimah
- Occupancy: full time
- Description
- We are looking for an inventive Operation Theatre Technician to join our team, Operation Theatre Technicians are allied healthcare professionals. They are also known as Operation Room Assistants or ‘Scrubs’. As an Operation Theatre Technician, you will assist surgeons and anesthetists during surgery. You will be trained to keep the operation theatre ready for surgery. You will also assist doctors while they use special equipment during surgeries. You will also help them deliver other health care services.
Job Description:
Preparing the operation theatre for surgery. You will need to arrange the instruments and equipment required for a particular surgery. You will also clean and sterilize them before the procedure.
Arranging transport of patients. You might have to arrange wheelchairs or stretchers to transfer the patients to the operation theatre.
Arranging the instruments and supplies according to the surgery that is to be performed.
Following infection control protocols. You will be responsible for maintaining a sterile field for operation. It will be your duty to ensure that there is no contamination of surgery instruments or devices.
Cleaning up after the surgery. You will have to discard disposables and clean and sterilize the equipment.
Ensuring proper biomedical waste disposal. You will have to follow standardized protocols for infected, non-infected, sharp, and hazardous waste. For instance, using color-coded disposal bags.
Ensuring the availability of medical and diagnostic supplies. You will have to make sure the operation theatre is well-stocked at all times. (e.g. gloves, tubes, catheters).
Working effectively with other team members. You will be a part of a team that consists of surgeons, anesthetists, nurses, etc. and effective coordination is a must for the smooth flow of the surgery.
- Requirements
- An Associates degree from an accredited program.
State-specific license and accreditation.
At least 2 years experience as an occupational therapy technician.
Empathy for patients.
Good communication skills.
Physical fitness (enough to lift patients and help move them).
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Basic administrative skills.
- Provisions
- Salary: to be discussed
- Employment visa
- Publisher
- direct employer
- up to 50 employees