Surgical Simulation Project Manager
This candidate will provide operational support to the Department of Simulation (SIM), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Salary Range: $90k
Benefits: Full benefits package to include: medical, dental, vision, Life/AD&D, STD, LTD and 401k with an employer match
Qualifications:
- Must be a United States Citizen
- No degree necessary
- Read, Write and Speak English
- Proficient with MS Office Suite
- 3-5 years of experience as a Surgical Technician, Surgical Technologist, prior-service military 4N1X1, 68D or CST (Certified Surgical Technologist)
- Certification training program must be verified through ARC/STSA or CAAHEP (Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education of Allied Health Education Programs)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare a variety of general correspondence and reports including assignment and reminder letters for continuing review and reports for a variety of internal and external regulatory civilian and military departments and agencies.
- Maintain logs of all incoming and outgoing correspondence as it pertains to personnel seeking surgical simulation services training, to include Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) and/or Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) training and testing requests.
- Completes FLS and FES exams as a test proctor certified through the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES).
- Develop, prepare and disseminate approved marketing materials to promote surgical simulation training events.
- Responsible to track and request replenishment of all surgical skills related class VIII and surgical simulation materials/consumables.
- Reports and maintains an accurate account and system for all surgical training equipment as well as the class VIII materials on hand.
- Coordinates with the Simulation Quality Nurse to assist with hospital quality based projects.
- Coordinates with Graduate Medical Education Department in order to ascertain the number of healthcare personnel that are required to be certified FLS/FES, suturing and/or other surgical skills where simulation is required or may be the most effective training method.
- Track and record required information as required from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) for continued accreditation as a way of demonstrating appropriate statistics and how it relates independently to qualitative outcomes for personnel enrolled in surgical training programs.
- Prepare SIM calendars for all surgical simulation training revolving schedules and activities.
- Responsible for all surgical simulation training activities and coordinates with the appropriate course leadership to ensure all challenges have been mitigated and resolved prior to beginning training events.
- Communicates appropriately with Directorate, Education, Training & Research (DETR) and SIM leadership if course offerings become endangered to a point that not hosting such certificate courses would endanger the center’s accreditation patient safety, credentialing, and/or the hospital’s inability to perform direct patient care.
- Ensures that all applicable hosted training activities are properly coordinated between the Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) and SIM for events in support of the hospital’s credentialling requirements.
