Surgical Assistant, Senior

About the role

The Surgical Assistant Senior assists the surgical team in providing quality individualized patient care during all phases of the patient's surgical experience. They must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide services appropriate to the age of the patients served.

Responsibilities

• Assists the team in providing quality individualized patient care during all phases of the patient's surgical experience.
• Assists with various types of surgical operations providing technically skilled duties, serving as first assist.
• Demonstrate knowledge of instrumentation and sterile/aseptic technique.
• May be asked to perform additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of experience assisting preferred.
• Certified Surgical First Assist or Registered Nurse First Assist required.
• Ability to independently scrub Orthopedics, General, Vascular, Gynecological cases.
• Ability to independently cover scrub call as needed.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Graduate of a recognized first assist program with National Certification or RN required.
• Or, if a physician from another country and practicing in the United States as a First Assistant, this is acceptable.

Skills

• Ability to successfully complete generic and department-specific skill validation and competency testing.
• Effective and appropriate customer service skills, verbal and nonverbal communication techniques, interpersonal relationship skills, and time management skills.

Benefits

On-call responsibilities as directed.

Ability to travel between campus buildings, remote facilities, and out of town as needed.

Pay

The base compensation range for this role is $41.54 - $67.46 hourly. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.