Podiatry Service Line Coordinator

Shift:  Full Time

Job Summary

This position is responsible for coordinating daily clinical care activities for Podiatry surgeries.

Reports to: Director of Surgical Services

Essential Job Functions:  To ensure daily efficiency, flow and expertise for Podiatry surgical care.

1. Management and oversight of preference cards
   1. Works closely with the team to maintain and update preference cards.
   2. Will update the preference cards in a timely manner to ensure staff are provided with up to date and accurate preference cards.
   3. Will coordinate with surgeons quarterly to review all of their preference cards for approval.
2. Develops and maintains a good rapport and works closely with surgeon(s) and mid-level provider(s).
   1. Will work with the surgeons/mid-levels to provide them with a direct resource for daily surgical needs.
   2. Will set up meetings with surgeons to discuss daily flow, supply needs and OR efficiency. Team needs will be discussed with the surgeons and mid-levels.
   3. Will work with the OR charge to provide the appropriate staffing for the surgeons, providing a team mentality and overall consistency during their surgical time.
3. Collaborates with scheduling of surgical procedures to assure coordination of block time, office, time and call time for Podiatry surgeons and mid-level providers.  Collaboration will be a team approach through OR charge nurses.  Oversight and input by Director of Surgery as needed.
4. Assist/scrub in with surgeons and midlevel providers in surgical procedures. Maintains an orderly sterile field, passes instruments in proper manner and anticipates needs of the surgeon.
5. Collaborates with surgical team, OR Charges and Director of Surgery, to navigate procedural on time starts and ensure efficient turn around times for surgical procedures.
6. Coordinates with circulating/scrub nurses to provide any additional input related to surgical documentation accuracy and completeness.
   1. Collaborates with materials and assists with the surgical charging of procedures/implants.
7. Will work with registered nurses, scrub personnel, OR charge nurses, and the Director of Surgical Services to ensure proper training and training needs for all staff working in Podiatry rooms.
   1. Will provide staff with in-services and education on equipment, instrumentation, implants, and supplies used for Podiatry.
   2. Coordinates and collaborates with reps regarding instrumentation and supplies for upcoming surgical cases and Inservice opportunities.
8. Will coordinate weekly meetings with the team to debrief on the week discussing needs, goals for the upcoming week and efficiency.
9. Will provide to the entire OR team via email regarding any pertinent information to be passed on pertaining to Podiatry, this will include any immediate changes to preference cards, instrumentation, medications, positioning, and equipment.
10. Collaborates with monitoring Podiatry quality outcomes and facilitates process improvement as needed. Ensures utilization of evidence-based best practice based on current literature.
11. Serves as a resource person and shares knowledge/expertise with patients, families, hospital staff, and affiliate medical staff as well as the community regarding the field of Podiatry.
12. Collaborates with Surgery Director in creating/revising policy and procedures for equipment. Provides Inservice/training to surgical staff on equipment/care as needed.
13. Keeps abreast of current trends by networking and benchmarking in region, state and nationally as appropriate.

Minimum Requirements:

Certified Scrub Technician or Registered Nurse

Current BLS issued by approved Hospital Provider

Four years Podiatry or Hospital Service Line Coordinator

Previous supervisory / team lead experience helpful

Basic computer knowledge

Ability to read, understand and communicate effectively in English.

Additional languages helpful.

Physical Requirements:

Lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling up to fifty (50) plus pounds while administering care to patients, etc; stooping, kneeling and/or crouching daily in delivery of patient care, starting IVs, obtaining medications/equipment, etc.; standing and walking more than five(5) hours per day in administering patient care in multiple rooms; running occasionally n responding to patient care emergencies; reaching, grasping, handling, and/or feeling five (5) or more hours per day in administering patient care, i.e. operating various patient care equipment, administering medication, etc; visual acuity in order to correctly distinguish skin tone variations, evidence of IV infiltration, infection, also to read telemetry, blood pressure gauges, etc; audio acuity, in sounds, also to discern sounds made by various types of machinery or equipment which would indicate dangerous or improper operation.

Working Conditions/Environmental Exposures:

Environmental hazards such as chemicals, solvents, needles, needle containers, sharps, blood body fluids, various infectious/communicable diseases, infectious medical waste, radiation, and/or radioactive waste, proximity to moving mechanical parts.

Protective clothing/equipment may be necessary.

ASH IMMUNIZATIONS AND VACCINATIONS REQUIREMENTS

Aligns with CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for Healthcare Personnel 

Hepatitis B- Lab evidence of immunity (titer) to Hepatitis B or three doses Hep B vaccine at appropriate intervals

Influenza- documentation of current seasonal flu vaccine (mandatory from November 1st through March 31st each year)

Measles, Mumps, and Rubella - Lab evidence of immunity (titer) to Measles, Mumps, and Rubella or 2 doses of MMR Vaccination

Varicella (chickenpox) - Lab evidence of immunity (titer) to Varicella or 2 doses of Varicella Vaccine

Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (Tdap) - documented proof of immunization

Tuberculosis Screening-  Documentation of a two-step TB skin test within the past year OR lab verification of a negative TB Gold or T-Spot tuberculin test within the past 6 months

* VACCINE RECORDS OR EVIDENCE OF IMMUNITY ARE REQUIRED PRIOR TO 1ST DAY OF SCHEDULED WORK*