Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
Organization
- Endo 2nd
- Job
- Summary: Assists all areas with the coordination of the daily patient surgical schedule with occasional guidance from the charge nurse, physician, or staff nurse. Ensures instrumentation is sterile and ready to use. Cleans, disinfects and sterilizes all flexible bronchoscopes, video scopes and related Endoscopy instruments for all areas within scope. .
- Key
- Responsibilities: Maintains work environment in a safe, clean, orderly manner. Performs, documents and monitors all quality control tools. Receives and inventories departmental supplies, instrumentation and equipment. Prepares instrumentation and equipment according to recommended procedures and techniques in preparation for high-level disinfection and sterilization to support all perioperative areas and clinics. Operates all departmental equipment safely and effectively. Scans instrumentation and assembles, according to prescribed procedures and techniques. Provides technical support and assists in selecting instruments and equipment for Endoscopy Procedures for all Perioperative areas.
- Technical
- Capabilities:
- Environmental
- Sterility &
- Safety (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate environmental sterility and safety in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
- Surgical
- Equipment
- Knowledge (Novice): Knowledge of the specific equipment and its performance criteria, capabilities and limitations. Able to use the equipment to accomplish basic tasks associated with the specific devices. May conduct remedial maintenance and preventive maintenance. Examples of this include Insulation Testing, Demagnetizing instrumentation, Air Pressure Testing etc.
- Equipment
- Operation and
- Maintenance (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate the ability to maintain equipment, products, or systems in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Examples of this include performing variety qualification testing on different types of equipment (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.)
- Inventory
- Control (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate inventory control in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Ability to perform a variety of care and handling techniques to maintain the longevity and sterility of different types of containment devices.
- Quality
- Assurance (Novice): Performs, documents and monitors all quality control tools. Ability to read, interpret and practically apply the various Manufacturer Instructions for Use. Possess a strong knowledge base of regulations and standards that govern sterile processing functions and operations.
- Distinguishing skill set (Novice): Strong knowledge automatic endoscope preprocessors (AER), Various methods of manual HLD Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area can be defined as credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings. These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health’s reputation for excellence in these areas that has made us a major center for patient referrals from throughout the Mid-South. Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership in medical science and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.
- Core
- Accountabilities:
- Organizational
- Impact: Performs tasks that are typically routine that may impact team's performance with occasional guidance.
- Problem
- Solving/
- Complexity of work: Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems.
- Breadth of
- Knowledge: Applies knowledge of standards, established processes and procedure that apply to your own job.
- Team
- Interaction: Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.
- Core
- Capabilities :
- Supporting
- Colleagues :
- Develops
- Self and
- Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.-
- Builds and
- Maintains
- Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.-
- Communicates
- Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner.
- Delivering
- Excellent
- Services: -
- Serves
- Others with
- Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.-
- Solves
- Complex
- Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner. -
- Offers
- Meaningful
- Advice and
- Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support.
- Ensuring
- High
- Quality: -
- Performs
- Excellent
- Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards. -
- Fulfills
- Safety and
- Regulatory
- Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department.
- Managing
- Resources
- Effectively : -
- Demonstrates
- Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service. -
- Stewards
- Organizational
- Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources. -
- Makes
- Data
- Driven
- Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error.
- Fostering
- Innovation : -
- Generates
- New
- Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them. -
- Applies
- Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action. -
- Adapts to
- Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.
- Position
- Qualifications:
- Responsibilities:
- Certifications:
- Work
- Experience:
- Relevant
- Work
- Experience
- Experience
- Level :
- Less than 1 year
- Education: High School Diploma or GED Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled. PEOPLE ARE AT THE HEART OF ALL WE DO.
- Our vision: The world leader in advancing personalized health.
- Our mission: personalizing the patient experience through our caring spirit and distinctive capabilities. Making Health Care Personal. We’re looking for like-minded individuals driven to make a difference. We invite you to explore careers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At VUMC, we place a priority on designing with and for our patients and families. We value collaboration, embrace continuous learning and discovery, and seek to be a place where everyone has the chance to thrive. We’re the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee, with a growing team and expanding footprint in towns and communities across the region. We employ more than 28,000 people who work in inpatient and outpatient clinical care, research, and graduate medical education as well as critical supporting roles in administration, information technology and informatics, finance, legal and community affairs, communications and marketing, fund-raising, groundskeeping and facilities, and many more.
- Our growing health system has more than 1,700 licensed hospital beds at: Vanderbilt University Hospital Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital It’s also home to hundreds of outpatient clinic and surgical locations throughout the region. We serve our community with many unique and specialized services including the Level 1 Trauma Center, a highly experienced Transplant Center that does the most heart transplants in the world, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lung Institute, Burn Center and many more. World-leading academic departments and centers make scientific discoveries, advance clinical care and train the next generation of health care professionals. Our robust research enterprise consistently ranks among the highest in the country as measured by peer-reviewed grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. We’re honored to be consistently considered among the nation’s best hospitals, including being nationally ranked in multiple medical specialties for treating the most complex conditions in adults and children by US News and World Report. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt ranked as the No. 1 children’s hospital in the southeast in 2024. We support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at VUMC for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose. Join us in Making Health Care Personal.
