Requisition ID: 349808
Position Number: 20031289
Posting End Date: Open until filled
City: Winnipeg
Site: WRHA Corporate
Work Location: Winnipeg Corporate - Misericordia
Department / Unit: Ophthalmic Sedation Practitioner
Job Stream: Clinical
Union: EXEMPT-OT
Anticipated Start Date - End Date: ASAP - 08/25/2025
Reason for Term: Maternity Leave
FTE: 0.80
Anticipated Shift: Days
Daily Hours Worked: 7.75
Annual Base Hours: 2015
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Under the supervision of the Anesthesiologist, the Ophthalmic Sedation Practitioner is responsible for: performing selective pre-operative assessment, anesthesia monitoring of physiological patient variables, administration of sedative and analgesic drugs used to establish up to a moderate level of sedation, rescue of patients who exhibit adverse consequences of a deeper than intended level of sedation and patient transport.
Additional aspects of anesthetic care include: point of care testing for glucose, INR and EKG, operating room readiness (machine, monitors, equipment, supplies, drugs), patient positioning, medical record keeping, identification of complications of anesthesia and surgery and providing intraoperative report to PACU staff.
This term position may end earlier as outlined in your collective agreement.
This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.
Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.
Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.
Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.