Position Summary
To be fully engaged in providing Quality/No Harm, Customer Experience, and Stewardship by performing a variety of technical activities related to patient care, as well as support activities in the operating room under the direction of a registered nurse.
Job Requirements
To be fully engaged in providing Quality/No Harm, Customer Experience, and Stewardship by performing a variety of technical activities related to patient care, as well as support activities in the operating room under the direction of a registered nurse.
Primary Accountabilities
- Perform a variety of duties in an operating room observing proper techniques to include preparing rooms with appropriate instruments, sutures, supplies, and equipment; open sterile supplies and arrange sterile setups for operations.
- Create, maintain, and terminate sterile field for surgical procedures.
- Properly handle and care for all instruments and equipment. Check materials and equipment for proper functioning and adequacy; report faulty equipment and instruments per policy.
- Assist with precepting new technical personnel.
- Attend in-services and mandatory meetings.
- Cooperate with the nurse in the individualized plan of care for each patient.
- Anticipate needs of surgeon and surgical assistants in the operating room, passing instruments, sutures, sponges, and supplies needed in an operative procedure.
- Demonstrate an ability to perform all duties required of a Surgical Technologist in accordance with established procedures and completion of skills check list.
Work Experience
Minimum Qualifications
- Education:
- Completion of Health First’s On-The-Job Training Program for Surgical Technician
- or graduate of a program for Surgical Technologist (Military, Community College or School for Surgical Technology)
- or one year of work experience as a surgical tech or surgical assistant.
- Licensure: None
- Certification: Must hold American Heart Association BLS Healthcare Provider Completion Card prior to start date and maintain.
- Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
- Ability to perform basic math.
- Reliable transportation with ability to respond from location within 30 minutes of assigned facility when on-call.
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable with daily schedule and assigned tasks o Ability to respond appropriately to stressful or life‑threatening situations.
- Detail‑oriented with ability for continuous concentration on an activity.
- Excellent customer service skills with ability to interact effectively with medical staff and patient care teams.
- Motivated to complete milestones and competencies with ability to receive constructive criticism and apply to future performance.
- Ability to work autonomously, while consulting chain of command as appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification: Certified Surgical Technologist.
- Work Experience: Three (3) years of experience as a surgical technologist with some CVOR.
Physical Requirements
- Physically agile; may require walking, standing, running, bending, stooping, kneeling, climbing or crouching frequently.
- Medium work that may include lifting or moving objects up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, with or without assistance.
- May require moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments including tight and confined spaces, including reaching out and above shoulders or over head.
- May lift, turn, pull, push, or ambulate people and/or equipment with or without assistance up to 90% of the assigned shift.
- May be exposed to inside and outside environments with varied temperatures, air quality, lighting and/or low to loud noise.
- May require working with biohazards such as blood/body fluids and airborne particles following OSHA and CDC Guidelines.
- Communicating with others to exchange information.
- Visual acuity and hand‑eye coordination to perform tasks.
- Workspace may vary from open to confined.
- May require travel to various facilities within and beyond county perimeter; may require use of personal vehicle.
Schedule
Full‑Time
Shift Times
days
Paygrade
PG-5S
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