Anesthesia Assistant
Allevio Pain Management Clinic | 240 Duncan Mill Road, Suite 101, Toronto, Ontario
Closing Date: Thursday, 24 Dec 2020
About Allevio: Over the last 7 years, Allevio has grown to be among North America’s largest and most respected names in pain management. Allevio improves the way the world manages pain through trust, kindness, and value-based healthcare. We design and manage products and services that are easy to work with and are a win-win for everyone involved. We bridge knowledge and practice gaps between other physician specialties, the law and medicine. We learn from what we practice, and we focus on sharing our insights with our community. With everything we do, Allevio believes the system improves when patients are treated as if they are family, when the team is treated as collaborative equals, and when there are positive examples from which the industry can learn. What we do today is help people, what we will do tomorrow is apply our learning to fight opioid abuse, bring dignity to a debilitating condition, and share our positivity with a whole and open heart.
We’re just getting started and having a ton of fun doing it! Do you have what it takes to join us in designing and providing services that will meaningfully improve the lives of people?
About the role: As an integral member of the Allevio team the Anesthesia Assistant (AA) participates in the care of the patient during procedural sedation, regional or local anesthesia. In addition to providing technical support to the anesthesiologist for anesthesia equipment, the anesthesia assistant administers anesthetic medications, performs activities such as the provision of conscious sedation, and is responsible for the insertion and management of intravenous lines.
The AA provides constant assessment and evaluative monitoring of the depth of anesthesia using medical directives and order sets, as applicable. Within this role, the AA is accountable for contributing to the delivery of Allevio values and goals and must demonstrate an awareness of and be responsible for actively promoting and supporting patient-centered engagement and care in all we do.
Job Duties:
- Assist anesthesiologists in the administration of anesthesia for clinical procedures.
- Collect and document patients’ pre-anesthetic health histories.
- Verify availability of clinic room supplies and medications.
- Pretest and calibrate patient monitors.
- Examine and maintain medical instruments or equipment to ensure proper operation.
- Control anesthesia levels during procedures. Adjust settings or positions of medical equipment.
- Assist healthcare practitioners and monitor patient conditions during examinations, treatments, procedures, or activities, including nerve blocks, spinal and other injections.
- Respond to emergency situations by providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), or pediatric advanced life support (PALS)
- Monitor and document patients’ progress during post-anesthesia period.
- Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.
- Administer anesthetic, adjuvant, or accessory drugs under the direction of an anesthesiologist.
- Administer anesthetics or sedatives to control pain.
- Participate in seminars, workshops, or other professional activities to keep abreast of developments in anesthesiology. Maintain medical or professional knowledge.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Graduate of a recognized Anesthesia Assistant Program
- Current certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
- Demonstrated skill in CPR techniques.
- Comprehensive knowledge of current anesthesia assistant theory and practice within a client/patient centered model for care.
- Broad knowledge of the CAS clinical practice guidelines for Anesthesia Assistants.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with and deal effectively with patients and their families, coworkers, physicians, other health care staff and staff of outside agencies.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and in collaboration with others as a member of the interdisciplinary team.
- Demonstrated ability to establish workload priorities in collaboration with others.
- Demonstrated skill in the use of medical equipment and supplies appropriate to the clinical area. We offer a competitive compensation package, commensurate with experience, and may be eligible for bonuses based on the clinic’s performance.
As a full-time member of our team, you would have access to Group Insured Health and Dental Benefits including Long Term Disability Insurance, three weeks of vacation, and one week allotted for continuing education requirements.
For more information about Allevio’s evidence-informed, multidisciplinary approach to pain management, please visit our website www.allevioclinic.com. Allevio is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Contact Name: Darci Taylor
Contact Email: careers@allevioclinic.com
Contact Phone: 4167166937
Contact Website: www.allevioclinic.com