Scion hospital is an ultra- modern hospital registered in Kenya with three branches operating within Nairobi. Scion was founded in 2009 at Embakasi, along Airport North Road and has grown tremendously making Scion the Hospital of choice to more than 1,500,000 members.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain operating theatres, ensuring cleanliness, functionality and availability of surgical equipment, instruments and consumables.
• Undertake preoperative patient preparation, including patient identification, procedure verification, positioning and completion of surgical safety checklists.
• Perform scrub and circulating nursing duties, assist surgical and anaesthetic teams and maintain strict aseptic techniques throughout surgical procedures.
• Monitor patients during the perioperative period, conduct surgical instrument, needle and swab counts, and facilitate safe patient transfer and handover to recovery.
• Ensure appropriate handling, decontamination, sterilisation, storage and maintenance of surgical instruments and theatre equipment in collaboration with CSSD.
• Maintain accurate theatre documentation, surgical records and specimen handling processes while monitoring stock levels and availability of theatre supplies.
• Support theatre scheduling, turnaround time management and efficient utilisation of resources while upholding patient safety, infection prevention standards and participating in clinical audits and quality improvement initiatives.

• Prepare and maintain operating theatres, ensuring cleanliness, functionality and availability of surgical equipment, instruments and consumables.
• Undertake preoperative patient preparation, including patient identification, procedure verification, positioning and completion of surgical safety checklists.
• Perform scrub and circulating nursing duties, assist surgical and anaesthetic teams and maintain strict aseptic techniques throughout surgical procedures.
• Monitor patients during the perioperative period, conduct surgical instrument, needle and swab counts, and facilitate safe patient transfer and handover to recovery.
• Ensure appropriate handling, decontamination, sterilisation, storage and maintenance of surgical instruments and theatre equipment in collaboration with CSSD.
• Maintain accurate theatre documentation, surgical records and specimen handling processes while monitoring stock levels and availability of theatre supplies.
• Support theatre scheduling, turnaround time management and efficient utilisation of resources while upholding patient safety, infection prevention standards and participating in clinical audits and quality improvement initiatives.

• aseptic techniques
• patient identification
• procedure verification
• surgical safety checklists
• scrub nursing
• circulating nursing
• patient monitoring
• instrument handling
• decontamination
• sterilisation
• stock monitoring
• theatre scheduling
• infection prevention
• clinical audits
• quality improvement

• Diploma