Company:
Live On NY
Location: Long Island City
Closing Date: 23/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Overview
At LiveOnNY we save lives, provide comfort, and strengthen legacies through organ, eye and tissue donation for the 13 million New Yorkers we serve.
Join us in helping New Yorkers to live on by making New York number one in lives saved through donation.
The Lead Recovery Practitioner (LRP): for LiveOnNY serves as the primary procurement practitioner performing organ procurements and to enhance the efforts of LiveOnNY in its primary goal of procuring organs, and tissues for transplantation and research throughout LiveOnNY's service area. The LRP serves as a key ambassador for donation by modeling and controlling the intraoperative behavior of all recovery team members.
Responsibilities
Ensure organ recovery procedures, both Donation after Brain Death (DBD) donors and Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) donors, meet organizational standards for organ recovery and transplantation.
Practices preoperative safety measures, in accordance with standard safety and regulatory surgical processes and procedures
Perform surgical organ recovery to organizational and national standards for organ transplantation. Serves as the primary procurement practitioner for organs as assigned.
Maintain current knowledge of LiveOnNY policies and procedures concerning the OR process and the surgical recovery of postmortem organs.
Provide consultation regarding the safety and suitability of donor organs and communicates with transplant centers as necessary to discuss potential issues in organ anatomy post procurement.
Inspects, prepares, and dissects kidneys in alignment with optimizing organ placement for transplantation.
Responsible for inspecting the body cavity for abnormalities that necessitate pathological evaluation.
Adheres to organizational and national standards and performance measures for surgical procurement of abdominal organs.
Arbitrate transplant team related difficulties during the donor procurement procedure when necessary.
Participate in the investigation and resolutions of occurrences of a medical nature.
Aid in the training of LiveOnNY surgical recovery staff as assigned.
Provide ongoing training regarding surgical technique, anatomy, dissection of research organs.
Routinely participates in clinical case review conferences to educate staff and provide feedback regarding organ donor management issues, the organ recovery process and transplantation.
Fulfill duties outside of case activities including availability and attendance at in-office activities, trainings, educations, in-services and managing schedule appropriately.
Other duties may be assigned.
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:
Medical Degree with current New York State Licensure, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Registered Nurse, or Surgical Technologist First Assistant or have prior documented surgical recovery experience. Strong decision-making capabilities, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
CPTC and CTP certificates preferred.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Ability to read and interpret healthcare regulations. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of healthcare professionals and the general public.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand for many hours and talk or hear and use critical thinking in problem solving. The employee is required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and climb or balance.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
This position requires extensive on-call responsibilities and the ability to work extended periods of time and overnight. Must maintain mental activity after being awake for extended periods of time.
Travel by personal automobile, emergency transport or air is possible. Must have and maintain a valid driver's license and be able to drive under all conditions.
LiveOnNY offers a competitive salary & comprehensive benefits package.
Salary Range: $150,000-$200,000
At LiveOnNY we save lives, provide comfort, and strengthen legacies through organ, eye and tissue donation for the 13 million New Yorkers we serve.
Join us in helping New Yorkers to live on by making New York number one in lives saved through donation.
The Lead Recovery Practitioner (LRP): for LiveOnNY serves as the primary procurement practitioner performing organ procurements and to enhance the efforts of LiveOnNY in its primary goal of procuring organs, and tissues for transplantation and research throughout LiveOnNY's service area. The LRP serves as a key ambassador for donation by modeling and controlling the intraoperative behavior of all recovery team members.
Responsibilities
Ensure organ recovery procedures, both Donation after Brain Death (DBD) donors and Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) donors, meet organizational standards for organ recovery and transplantation.
Practices preoperative safety measures, in accordance with standard safety and regulatory surgical processes and procedures
Perform surgical organ recovery to organizational and national standards for organ transplantation. Serves as the primary procurement practitioner for organs as assigned.
Maintain current knowledge of LiveOnNY policies and procedures concerning the OR process and the surgical recovery of postmortem organs.
Provide consultation regarding the safety and suitability of donor organs and communicates with transplant centers as necessary to discuss potential issues in organ anatomy post procurement.
Inspects, prepares, and dissects kidneys in alignment with optimizing organ placement for transplantation.
Responsible for inspecting the body cavity for abnormalities that necessitate pathological evaluation.
Adheres to organizational and national standards and performance measures for surgical procurement of abdominal organs.
Arbitrate transplant team related difficulties during the donor procurement procedure when necessary.
Participate in the investigation and resolutions of occurrences of a medical nature.
Aid in the training of LiveOnNY surgical recovery staff as assigned.
Provide ongoing training regarding surgical technique, anatomy, dissection of research organs.
Routinely participates in clinical case review conferences to educate staff and provide feedback regarding organ donor management issues, the organ recovery process and transplantation.
Fulfill duties outside of case activities including availability and attendance at in-office activities, trainings, educations, in-services and managing schedule appropriately.
Other duties may be assigned.
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:
Medical Degree with current New York State Licensure, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Registered Nurse, or Surgical Technologist First Assistant or have prior documented surgical recovery experience. Strong decision-making capabilities, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
CPTC and CTP certificates preferred.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Ability to read and interpret healthcare regulations. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of healthcare professionals and the general public.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand for many hours and talk or hear and use critical thinking in problem solving. The employee is required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and climb or balance.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
This position requires extensive on-call responsibilities and the ability to work extended periods of time and overnight. Must maintain mental activity after being awake for extended periods of time.
Travel by personal automobile, emergency transport or air is possible. Must have and maintain a valid driver's license and be able to drive under all conditions.
LiveOnNY offers a competitive salary & comprehensive benefits package.
- 403(b) deferred annuity
- Medical/Vision/Dental/Life
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time Off
- Pet Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Cellular plan discounts
- Auto Insurance discounts
Salary Range: $150,000-$200,000
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