Supervisor, Operating Room

Supervisor, Operating Room

Entity: Aga Khan University Hospital

Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Introduction:

The Department of Anaesthesia at the Aga Khan University Hospital provides perioperative care and other operating room facilities for all surgical procedures, intensive care to critically ill surgical patients in the surgical intensive care unit, as well as acute and chronic pain management services. Our department has a mix of anesthesiologists, qualified nurses, and highly trained surgical and anesthesia technicians. We are committed to delivering compassionate, ethical, accessible, and high-quality care to all patients requiring surgery, anesthesia, intensive care, and pain services.

Aga Khan University Hospital invites applications for the position of Supervisor, Operating Room.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible to:

• prepare and maintain preference cards of respective specialty on an annual basis
• Check and ensure guidelines provided in the surgeon’s preference card for the operative procedure are followed
  maintain inventory of equipment and instruments including reuse / single-use items updated in his assigned specialty
• ensure OR preparation according to the list to assess needs and fulfill resource demands ahead of time
• ensure all preoperative preparation of OR as per requirement
• participates in checking and maintenance of capital equipment
• Train and prepare specialty team to circulate and scrub in the complex/major procedure independently a minimum of 3 – 4 staff per year
• updated PPM of equipment and reported findings to the Head Nurse and Assistant Manager
• facilitate the process of item evaluation and arranging alternative medical surgical items in case of unavailable items in coordination with the Assistant Manager.

Requirements:

You should have:

• Intermediate, Bachelor’s degree will be preferred
• Diploma in OT Technician
• At least five years of relevant experience from a reputed healthcare organization
• ability to effectively work in teams as well as independently and handle work pressure
• good communication skills.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted