Organ Preservation Coordinator I

Requirements

• Negotiates donor specific logistics to ensure adherence to ischemic timing restrictions, transport arrangements for medical equipment/devices required, and surgeon availability.
• Authorizes aircraft and vehicle charters, as necessary. Develops and implements contingency plans to ensure a successful organ procurement process intraoperatively.
• Provides high quality customer service by serving as a process expert in the overall organ recovery process.
• Perfusion of abdominal and thoracic organ systems.
• Provides perfusion and intraoperative support to transplant centers departing the DNWest service area for organ procurement.
• Serves as a consultant to local transplant centers by providing intraoperative support with living-donor kidney nephrectomies.
• Completes all organ procurement cases started; works past scheduled shift times without relief when required.
• Manages the intraoperative organ procurement process - leads a team of surgeons, nurses and medical staff to ensure complete adherence with regulatory policies and protocols to ensure transplant recipient safety.
• Operates without management oversight in the field and is able to resolve complex surgical, procurement, and regulatory concerns independently.

Additional Information

Donor Network West's mission is to save and heal lives through organ and tissue donation for transplantation and research. At Donor Network West, we're looking for people who embody our core values: passion, excellence, equity and inclusion, and relationships. We welcome diverse perspectives and foster an environment of collaboration and service. POSITION SUMMARY The Organ Preservationist Coordinator III (OPC) oversees all organ donor perfusion and organ preservation processes and is responsible for the intraoperative leadership of a team of medical professionals while managing the recovery process of all solid organs. The OPC must have an advanced degree of anatomical knowledge, skills and technical expertise in surgical services, and gain the ability to assist the organ recovery surgeon in the removal of deceased donor organs for transplantation. Failure of the OPC to carry out the responsibilities of this position can result in the loss of organs; thereby, decreasing in the number of organs available for transplant. OPCs work collaboratively with a range of high level professionals including physicians, hospital administrators, nurses, and others involved in the donation process. To this audience they are the operative expert for the organ recovery process. Responsibilities include logistical management of surgical teams and organs, administration of proper equipment and Operating Room (OR) set-up, communicating and documenting intraoperative findings appropriately, advanced understanding of organ anatomy to enable discourse with surgeons, and other core clinical responsibilities outlined in job duties below. Each organ donation can represent a new set of unusual circumstances that must be dealt with in real-time to ensure a successful donation. This requires a high degree of organization, ingenuity, and ability to adapt and problem solve in the face of unforeseen surgical and logistical problems. Innovative problem solving needs to happen in a rapid and decisive manner to lessen the potential of adverse impacts that could negatively impact the supply of organs and relationships with hospitals in our donor service area. An OPC must be able to serve in a consulting capacity to donor hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or OR staff by answering questions and lending expertise in order to facilitate the wishes of the decedent and patient's family in the donation process. ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Donor Network West takes a market-based approach to pay. All candidates' starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications and interview performance. Our job listings' compensation ranges include location-based differentials but may not be reflective of a candidate's final base salary. Location differentials are determined by an employee's home address, associated market data provided by government reporting and processed by Payroll. If selected, Donor Network West's Recruiting & Compensation Team will provide further detail! Salary data provided by third party sites do not accurately reflect our pay structure.

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