Senior Surgical Technician - Surgery Full Time Day

About the role

The surgical technologist III plays a crucial role under the supervision of the circulating registered nurse and collaborates with service-line coordinators, clinical supervisors, and the surgery manager. Key responsibilities include ensuring OR supplies and equipment are functional and sterile, scrubbing and handling instruments during surgeries, adhering to aseptic techniques, assisting with supply stocking, reporting inventory levels, communicating system improvements, participating in patient care activities, and supporting departmental budget objectives.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the functionality, availability, and sterility of OR supplies and equipment before 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 levels 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.
• Supporting the philosophy, objectives, and goals of hospital administration and its representatives.

Requirements

Required qualifications include completion of an accredited surgical technologist course (or more than 10 years of experience), National Certified Surgical Technologist certification from the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting, and at least 5 years of experience as a surgical technologist with the ability to 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.

Qualifications

Preferred qualifications include an associate's degree.

Skills

Skills include but are not limited to:

• Competence in surgical scrubbing technique(s).
• Aseptic technique adherence.
• Stock inventory management.
• Systems improvement communication.
• Patient care activities participation.
• Departmental budget support.

Benefits

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources, and much more.

Pay

The base pay range for this position is $39.23 - $56.47 per hour. Additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Schedule

This position is full-time and works on a day shift.