Perioperative Support Tech

Where You’ll Work

At CHI Mercy Health, you'll discover a place where your professional growth is deeply valued within a truly supportive and rewarding environment. For over a century, our commitment to Compassion, Inclusion, Integrity, Excellence, and Collaboration has guided every interaction, shaping how we care for our patients and uplift one another. Today, as CHI Mercy Health, we remain deeply committed to healing the whole person – body, mind, and spirit – in the communities we serve. This commitment is strengthened by the diverse expertise and shared values brought together through our growth. We are proud of our state-of-the- art care and numerous awards and accreditations that reflect our dedication to excellence. When you join CHI Mercy Health, you become part of a team that delivers top-quality, professional healthcare and contributes to a legacy of service built on collaboration and shared purpose.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Perioperative Support Tech, you will drive the efficiency of perioperative areas. You will manage OR equipment and ensure a clean, sanitary, and orderly OR environment. Your role also includes essential patient transportation.

Every day, you will orchestrate surgical instrumentation flow, setting up ORs with all required supplies and equipment. You will meticulously manage, clean, and prepare all supplies, ensuring sterility and readiness. You will ensure OR suite readiness by restocking, turning over rooms between cases, and managing supplies and equipment. 

To be successful in this role, you will strictly adhere to Standard Precautions and safety guidelines across all tasks. You will ensure safe patient transport, promptly addressing emergencies, initiating BLS if necessary, and consistently applying infection control protocols, including proper handwashing and PPE use.

• Assists with the flow of surgical instrumentation between processing and surgery; reads OR schedule, anticipates needs and sets-up OR with required supplies and equipment, for respective case(s).
• Checks inventory, disassembles, cleans, reassembles, and maintains supplies and equipment.
• Checks OR suites for adequate furniture, supplies and equipment, restocking as necessary; removes excess equipment and returns to appropriate location; may assist in monitoring pre- and/or post-operative areas for cleanliness.
• Performs turnover duties in the OR suite between case room cleaning.
• Transports blood or specimens to/from perioperative area and laboratory.
• Assists with patients, to include transporting and assisting with lifting, turning, positioning and preparing patients for surgical procedures (possibly holding legs/Arms for prepping).

Shift: Monday - Friday 11am - 7:30pm

Student loan repayment program offered!

Job Requirements

Required

• High School Diploma or GED
• One (1) year related work experience in an acute care hospital
• AHA BLS

Preferred

• Experience in Perioperative or as a military medic/corpsman
• Experiene in a Surgical Services environment
• Certified Nursing Assistant
• Certified Medical Assistant
• Certified Sterile Processing and Dist Tech