Tissue Recovery Case Lead
LifeNet Health
Summary
As the Tissue Recovery Case Lead, you will make an impact by leveraging your expertise, collaboration, and commitment to excellence to help advance our mission of Saving Lives, Restoring Health, and Giving Hope. Through your daily work, you will contribute to innovative solutions, operational excellence, and meaningful outcomes that support donors, patients, healthcare providers, and our communities.
Job description
How You Will Make an Impact
As the Tissue Recovery Case Lead, you will make an impact by leveraging your expertise, collaboration, and commitment to excellence to help advance our mission of Saving Lives, Restoring Health, and Giving Hope. Through your daily work, you will contribute to innovative solutions, operational excellence, and meaningful outcomes that support donors, patients, healthcare providers, and our communities.
What You Will Do
The role leads all aspects of tissue recovery by performing the full duties of a Tissue Recovery Surgical Specialist, including recovering clinical and non-clinical tissues, coordinating case logistics with partners and facility staff, preparing all necessary instruments and supplies, conducting time-outs, completing physical assessments, ensuring compliant documentation, and overseeing post-operative donor care and safe transport of tissues, staff, and equipment.
- Manage post-recovery tasks such as preparing and scheduling shipments, organizing storage, maintaining inventory, and keeping recovery spaces clean and audit-ready while ensuring timely completion of donor records.
- Provide leadership and training by assigning team member roles, ensuring material and facility readiness, communicating with external and internal stakeholders, supervising trainees, and precepting new staff.
- Drive quality and continuous improvement by reviewing donor records, leading NCI and CAPA investigations, maintaining organized workspaces, supporting KPI development, participating in audit readiness, and engaging in LEAN initiatives to ensure high performance and regulatory compliance.
What You Will Bring
- 2 years experience in a healthcare related field with a minimum of 12 months' experience leading a team or a project lead or 1 year experience in tissue recovery as a Tissue Recovery Surgical Specialist
- Valid Driver's License
- Credentials - Must be able to meet all credentialing requirements of area hospitals and other recovery facilities
Requirements
- 2 years experience in a healthcare related field
- Minimum of 12 months' experience leading a team or a project lead, or 1 year experience in tissue recovery as a Tissue Recovery Surgical Specialist
- Valid Driver's License
- Must be able to meet all credentialing requirements of area hospitals and other recovery facilities
Benefits
- Best-in-class benefits
Company overview
LifeNet Health is a global leader in regenerative medicine and tissue banking, founded in 1982 as Eastern Virginia Tissue Bank. Headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the company operates as both an organ procurement organization (OPO) and a leading provider of allograft tissue and cellular therapies. With a mission focused on saving lives, restoring health, and giving hope, LifeNet Health serves as a critical bridge between organ and tissue donors and patients in need of transplantation solutions. The company processes and distributes over 600,000 allografts annually, offering a comprehensive portfolio of biologic implants for cardiac, vascular, orthopedic, dental, and wound care applications. LifeNet Health's patented Allowash® technology has processed more than seven million allografts since 1995 with no reported disease transmissions, demonstrating their commitment to safety and quality. The organization also operates the Institute of Regenerative Medicine, driving innovation in cellular therapies and advanced tissue engineering. With facilities across the United States and international operations, LifeNet Health combines clinical expertise with compassionate donor family services, making it one of the world's most trusted providers of transplant solutions and regenerative medicine technologies.