Team Leader Anaesthesia Technician

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Req ID:
**213954**
Location:
**Central**
Zone,
**Dartmouth General Hospital**
Department:
**OPCZ PERI Anaesthesia DGH**
Type of Employment:
**Temporary**
**Hourly FT long-assignment**
(
**100%**
) x
**1**
*NSGEU*
**Healthcare**
Position
Posting Closing Date:
**30-Dec-25**
Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

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About The Opportunity
Reporting to the Health Services Manager of Anesthesia Services, the Anesthesia Technician Team Lead is an integral member of the health care team, responsible for the effective utilization of human resources, equipment and supplies for the Department of Anesthesia. The Team Lead provides skilled technical assistance perioperatively and maintains adequate levels of inventory requirements while maintaining a safe and aseptic environment through the adherence of safety regulations and standards. He/she is knowledgeable about patient safety and the aspects of its practice in the operating room, while providing clinical leadership to the Anesthesia Department. The Anesthesia Technician Team Lead will provide services within DGH site and outside the operating room environment as required.

Additionally, the Anesthesia Technician provides technical assistance to the Anesthesiologists with the application of supplies and monitoring equipment to the patient for all anesthesia procedures, including all hemodynamic monitoring lines, critical care monitors and life support equipment. Further, the Technician provides a second pair of hands during sterile procedures, adjusting controls and passing supplies into the sterile field, infusing fluids under direct supervision, while maintaining a watchful eye on the anesthesia delivery equipment. This individual is trained to expect the unexpected and react appropriately.

The Team Lead maintains skills as an Anesthesia Technician and can immediately respond to changes to workload as the work day evolves. The Team Leader also acts as a liaison with other team members and departments to provide safe and effective coverage, ensuring departmental guidelines for safe practice are adhered to

About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Successful completion of a certificate/diploma program in Anesthesia Technology
• A minimum of five years of experience as an Anesthesia Technician
• Previous experience in an anesthesia team lead/supervisor position required
• Demonstrated leadership and conflict management skills
• BCLS certification
• Training in education/preceptorship, leadership preferred
• Ability to communicate effectively with medical professionals is essential
• Reliable, self-starter capable of independent action
• Well-developed decision making, analytical, interpretation, negotiation, and problem solving skills
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

*Hours*

• 1 Year Full-time Long Assignment; 75 Hours Bi-weekly

Compensation And Benefits
$32.61- $38.81 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Some opportunities may be eligible for our Employee Referral Program. If a Nova Scotia Health employee refers a candidate who is not working for the organization and the candidate is hired, the employee who made the referral may be eligible to earn up to $1000.

This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.

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