Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel Perfusionist for a travel job in Springfield, Illinois.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Perfusionist
- Discipline: Allied Health Professional
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
We are seeking an experienced Perfusionist to join a nationally recognized Level I Trauma, Magnet-designated Acute Care Hospital. The Perfusionist will operate and manage the cardiopulmonary bypass (heart-lung) machine during cardiac and vascular surgeries, ensuring optimal patient circulation and oxygenation throughout procedures. The role also involves monitoring hemodynamics, maintaining perfusion equipment, and collaborating closely with cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, and the surgical team to deliver safe, high-quality patient care.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate the heart-lung machine during open-heart and cardiovascular procedures.
- Monitor blood flow, oxygenation, anticoagulation, and patient hemodynamics.
- Prepare, maintain, and troubleshoot perfusion equipment.
- Support ECMO and other mechanical circulatory support systems when required.
- Collaborate with surgeons, anesthesiologists, and OR staff to ensure safe patient outcomes.
- Maintain accurate documentation in Cerner EMR.
- Participate in on-call coverage for emergency cardiac procedures.
Requirements
- Minimum 4 years of Perfusion experience preferred
- First-time travelers accepted
- Active State Perfusion License (Required)
- BLS Certification (Required)
Schedule & Details
- Shift: 5 × 8-Hour Days
- On-Call: Required as needed
- Weekend Call: Approximately every 5th weekend with possible holiday coverage
- RTO: Ideally no more than 5 days
- Schedule Requests: Discuss with hiring manager
Facility Highlights
- Acute Care Hospital
- Level I Trauma Center
- Magnet Designated
- 562 Staffed Beds
- Charting: Cerner
An experienced, detail-oriented Certified Perfusionist with strong cardiac surgery expertise, excellent critical thinking skills, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-acuity surgical environment while participating in an on-call rotation.
About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Springfield, IL |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.
Skills
- Acute Careunmatched
- Anticoagulantunmatched
- Basic Life Support (BLS)unmatched
- Cardiac Surgeryunmatched
- Cardiologyunmatched
- Cardiovascularunmatched
- Cernerunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electronic Medical Recordsunmatched
- Emergency Proceduresunmatched
- Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Medical Treatmentunmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- On Callunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Registered Training Organisation (RTO)unmatched
- Vascular Surgeryunmatched
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