Or Attendant

**Job Description**:
**CUPE POSTING**

**Position**: OR Attendant - Operating Room

**Posting ID**:2024-39044

**Status**:Temporary Part Time (approximately to end May 19, 2025)

**Role Level**:CUPEC01 - $24.307 - $28.064

**Dept/Health System**:Operating Room - Mississauga Hospital

**Hours of Work/Shift**:8/10 hour shifts - Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends, and Holidays

**Posted**:Sept 10, 2024

**Internal Deadline**:Sept 17, 2024

Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital and the Queensway Health Centre, Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

Our Mission**:A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community**

Our Values**:Compassion, Excellence, Courage**

Our Goals**:Quality, Access, Sustainability**

Our Enablers**:People, Education, Innovation, Research**
- **The location of any vacancy/position may be changed or reassigned as per operational needs**

**Position Summary**:

- Assists surgical team with patient positioning, transfer and holding of limbs during surgery
- Ensures equipment, supplies and beds are available for cases as directed
- Performs housekeeping duties during changeover of rooms
- Cleaning and partial reprocessing of surgical instrumentation/equipment
- Assists with ensuring patient safety by identifying equipment problems and/or hazards on the unit
- Organization and restocking of different areas
- Works in compliance with the occupational health and safety act
- Other related duties as assigned

**Qualifications**:

- Must have minimum of two (2) years of recent or current OR attendant experience
- Grade 12 (or equivalent related skills and experience)
- Personal Support Worker and/or other appropriate related Health Care Certificate preferred
- Completion of ORA or CSAO course preferred
- Current BCLS & First Aid Certificates essential
- Previous Hospital/Health Care experience is required
- Effective written and oral communication skills and interpersonal skills to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Must be a self-directed individual with well-developed organizational skills
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the position
- Knowledge of medical terminology an asset
- Positive work and attendance record is required

**Physical Demands**:

- Frequent walking, standing, reaching, stooping and bending
- Occasional/frequent lifting up to approx. 11.5 kg
- Occasional pushing and pulling up to 17 kg- In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation._
- All personal information is collected under the authority of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act._
- Trillium Health Partners is identified under the French Language Services Act._

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