Senior Surgical Technician - Surgery Full Time Day

Providence • Santa Monica, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Join Providence Saint John's Health Center, recognized as one of the best regional hospitals in 17 types of care by U.S. News & World Report and honored by Newsweek and Healthgrades for exceptional clinical quality. Be a part of our distinguished team dedicated to excellence in patient care. We are on the Magnet journey, and we were just awarded a 5-star rating for quality, safe care from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Under the general supervision of the circulating registered nurse and in collaboration with the service-line coordinators, clinical supervisors and surgery manager, the surgical technologist III is an individual with demonstrated competence in surgical scrubbing technique(s) who provides scrub services for the department.

Requirements

• Completion of an accredited surgical technologist course (not required if more than 10 years of experience).
• Upon hire: National Certified Surgical Technologist - National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting
• Upon hire: National Provider BLS - American Heart Association
• 5 years of experience as a surgical technologist with the ability to competently scrub all regularly performed procedures in seven of the eight core service-line clusters (cardiac, thoracic/vascular, orthopedics, spine, general/urology/gynecology, EENT/plastics/maxillofacial, neuro, robotics).
• Of the seven service-lines, five must be general/urology/gynecology, orthopedics, spine, neuro and thoracic/vascular.
• If cardiac is one of the service-lines that can be scrubbed competently, only three other service-lines are required to be able to scrub competently.
• For internal candidates, the minimum experience can be waived if the ability to scrub in the service-lines as listed above is met.

Nice To Haves

• Associate's degree

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the functionality, availability and sterility of OR supplies and equipment prior to the start of the daily caseload.
• Scrubbing and handling instruments during surgical procedures.
• Adhering to standards of aseptic technique in all phases of surgical intervention.
• Demonstrating competence in performing scrub services for a variety of surgical procedures.
• Assisting service-line coordinators in receiving and stocking supplies/equipment for a cluster of specialties.
• Reporting variations in stock inventory level(s) to the service-line coordinators and materials management.
• Communicating opportunities for systems improvement to the service-line coordinators and surgery manager.
• Participating in selected patient care activities such as room turnover and transporting as needed.
• Participating in meeting the department's budgetary objectives.
• Supporting the philosophy, objectives and goals of hospital administration and its representatives.

Benefits

• Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees