đź“Ť Location: Columbia, SC, US
đź’Ľ Type: Fulltime
🏠Work: On-site
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***By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best. Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian network?***
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**Job Description:**
Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.
When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.
**Where Your Career is a Force for Good!**
**Job Summary:**
Manage the daily operations of the therapeutic apheresis unit through staff supervision, maintaining standards and supporting procedures to ensure efficiency, effectiveness and safe, appropriate care of patients and donors.
**Key Responsibilities:**
* Manage the daily operations of the therapeutic apheresis unit, which may include staff assignments, supply inventory, coordinating logistics of off\\-site procedures, overseeing and managing research activities/collections, and scheduling and performing therapeutic apheresis procedures.
* Supervise staff, including hiring, training, coaching, mentoring, evaluating and disciplining, to ensure a well\\-qualified team, reduce turnover, enhance operational success and compliance, and ensure safe and appropriate care of patient or donor.
* Develop and monitor implementation of local operating procedures, quality control procedures, and staff training protocols with assigned area to assure compliance with regulatory requirements (such as Code of Federal Regulations).
* May perform therapeutic apheresis procedures or assist with the collection of Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue\\-Based Products (HCT/P), or Perioperative Autologous Cell Salvage (PACS).
* Contribute to the development and implementation of annual operating plans by reviewing/assessing the assigned area for efficiency and effectiveness of current methods and overseeing supply inventory.
* Discuss procedures and medical issues with patients, families, and physicians.
**Qualifications:**
* Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Management, or related field required. Current RN, MT, or LPN licensure, depending on the requirements of state legislation. Current CPR certification required.
* Minimum 3 years of medical/surgical or critical care nursing experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
* 1 year of lead or supervisory experience.
* Excellent organizational skills, the ability to handle multiple priorities effectively, analyze problems and recommend appropriate solutions, and the ability to assimilate information quickly.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills are necessary to deal with all levels of staff, hospital personnel, physicians, patients, families, volunteers, and donors. Previous apheresis or dialysis experience is highly desirable.
* A current, valid driver’s license and good driving record is required. Ability to work on a team.
* Some travel may be required.
***Physical Requirements***
The duties are representative of the essential functions of the position. Operational flexibility is required to meet sudden and unpredictable needs. Required to wear protective clothing such as lab coats, gloves, face shields, etc. when there is exposure to blood and blood products and/or when the work location requires. Ability to use a wide variety of lab or medical equipment. Ability to use a personal computer and applicable software for sustained periods.
**Benefits for you:**
As a mission\\-based organization, we believe our team needs great support to do great work. Our comprehensive package includes:
* Medical, Dental Vision plans
* Health Spending Accounts \\& Flexible Spending Accounts
* PTO: Starting at 15 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
* Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
* 401K with up to 6% match
* Paid Family Leave
* Employee Assistance
* Disability and Insurance: Short \\+ Long Term
* Service Awards and recognition
***Apply now! Joining our team will provide you with the opportunity to***
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***make your career a force for good!***
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*The American Red Cross is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.*
***Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, San Diego Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and any other applicable state and local laws.***
AmeriCorps, the federal agency that brings people together through service, and its partners — the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps Alums, National Peace Corps Association, and the Service Year Alliance — launched Employers of National Service to connect national service alumni with opportunities in the workforce. American Red Cross is proud to be an EONS partner and share our employment opportunities with the network of organizations.
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