CVOR Surgical Tech PRN - Float Pool

About the Role

At HonorHealth, you’ll find a culture built on warmth and neighborly kindness, where highly skilled professionals are dedicated to caring for the health and well-being of people and communities across the greater Phoenix area. This role is part of the Network Float Pool, supporting open-heart and vascular surgical procedures.

Responsibilities

• Scrubs and provides instruments, sutures, and other sterile supplies during surgical procedures for all open-heart and vascular surgical procedures.
• Anticipates the need for additional equipment, supplies, and/or instruments by assessing specific patient, physician, and procedure requirements; responds by meeting or communicating those needs using critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrates efficiency, productivity, and the ability to prepare for cases in a timely manner.
• Maintains accountability for perioperative departmental operating policies.
• Prepares for surgical procedures by selecting appropriate instruments and supplies and ensuring the working order of instruments.
• Demonstrates the principles of aseptic technique and universal precautions throughout the operative procedure (before, during, and after).
• Assumes accountability for instrumentation and returns it to the decontamination room or Central Sterile Processing Department in an organized manner, following decontamination procedures and standards.
• Actively participates as a member of the healthcare team, including orienting and instructing personnel functioning in the scrub role.
• Participates in the re-stocking and cleaning of operating rooms and equipment; maintains a clean, safe, and orderly work environment and reports unsafe conditions.
• Contributes to planning, orienting, teaching, guiding, and evaluating the function and performance of staff and students.
• Utilizes material resources in a cost-effective manner and recommends cost-saving measures within the department or assigned area.
• Contributes to the recruitment and retention of talented staff through positive role-modeling, fostering peer relationships, and participating in preceptor and/or mentor programs.
• Assumes responsibility for personal development by maintaining current knowledge of standards, patient care technology, and agency regulations.
• Participates in in-services, mandatory meetings, and process improvement activities; ensures practice reflects knowledge of compliance, regulations, legislation, certification, and HonorHealth System and department policies.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Graduate of a vocational Surgical Tech School or 3 years of surgical tech experience required.
• 1 year of open-heart experience required.
• 6 months of first scrub experience preferred.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification required.
• Tech in Surgery – Certified (TS-C) certification preferred.