Organ Referral Responder-ORPC I

We are looking for dedicated individuals, excited to be a part of our culture!

About the Team
We are looking for dedicated individuals, excited to be a part of our culture!
Working at Donor Network of Arizona (DNA) is more than organ, eye and tissue donation and transplantation. We work in the field of generosity, facilitating the selfless gifts of donation to save and heal lives.
DNA employees use their unique talents to make the most of every situation, every opportunity, and every donation. Each position at DNA plays an important role in the donation process while honoring the legacy of donors and celebrating the renewed health of recipients.

About the Role
The Organ Referral/Preservation Coordinator (ORPC) is a cross-trained dual role, which encompasses the referral responder, referral intake/organ allocation and the organ preservation coordinator roles. Each staff member will have a dedicated primary role (i.e. referral responder, referral intake/organ allocation, or OPC).  

The staff member performing the referral responder (RR) role is responsible for maximizing the organ referral and evaluation process in collaboration with the advisor on call (AOC), organ recovery coordinator (ORC), donation and family advocate (DFA), hospital staff, physicians, and medical director as needed.
The RR is responsible for responding to heart beating ventilated referrals, assessing organ donor suitability, and enhancing the donation process.  The RR is responsible for maintaining donor records, assisting donor program development with post-donor hospital communication, providing donor family support, and communication in conjunction with donor family advocate services. For potential organ donors, the RR is responsible for facilitating family approach regarding donation and obtaining informed consent, in collaboration with the ORC and DFA staff if available, as well as performing the medical and social history interview.  Also, informing the donor family of donor designation and providing support to the family to proceed with the donor’s wishes.   This includes collaborating with hospital staff to determine appropriate timing for family counseling and approach.
The referral intake/organ allocation role is responsible for screening heart-beat ventilated (HBV) referrals to assess for organ donation referrals and import/local allocation.  Responsibilities include assessing HBV referrals for initial organ donor suitability, collaborating/communicating with the advisor on call (AOC) and RDSS, facilitating transplant center organ offers and transportation, and local abdominal organ allocation – maintaining UNOS policies. 
In the organ preservation coordinator (OPC) role, the staff member is responsible for the procurement, preservation and packaging of cadaveric organs in the operating room on heart beating and asystolic donors. Performs pre-recovery lymph node biopsies on cadaveric organ donors. Conducts machine preservation of kidneys taken from asystolic donors. 

Additionally this role performs organ allocation and takes import call. Precepts incoming Organ Preservation Coordinators and Referral Responders as assigned.  

All of these above actions are done pursuant to Donor Network of Arizona standard operating procedures, CMS regulations, UNOS policy, JCAHO and AOPO standards.  The ORPC is delegated the authority, responsibility, and accountability necessary for carrying out the assigned duties.
Current Needs are
Referral Responder

Skills:
Excellent human relations and oral/written communication skills
Provides hospital development education, OR and/or referral response
Shows clinical, communication, and professional growth
Answer telephones
Input data into computer programs
Maintain logs
Maintain patient charts
Ability to support Donor Network’s mission, vision, and values by exhibiting the following behaviors:  excellence and competence, collaboration, innovation, respect, dedication, personalization, commitment to our community, accountability, and ownership.

Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree preferred or medical certification, Licensure/Registration, Surgical Technician, Associate’s Degree, EMT-P, LPN, RT,RN,  previous OPO experience, previous ocular or tissue recovery experience.
Operating room / Surgical scrub or medical field/medical terminology field
2 ‑ 3 Years surgical experience
1 year experience in the medical field/medical terminology or new graduate RN.
Shares 24-hour “on-call” responsibility on a rotating basis with other organ recovery coordinators.
Responds within the established timeframe to potential donor referrals.
Carries a functioning mobile phone while on call.
Is prepared on a daily basis, with all of the necessary supplies, to perform and complete organ donor cases when on call.
Owns or has unlimited access to a motor vehicle while on call.
3 ‑ 5 Years, tissue/ocular recovery

 What We Offer:
Competitive Salary
Dental
Vision
Medical
Employee Assistance Program
403B
Tuition Assistance after 1 year employed
Telemedicine
LTD,STD,LTC
Wellness program
The opportunity to help save and heal lives!