Surgical Care Specialist

4 weeks ago


Gig Harbor, Washington, United States Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Full time
Job Summary:

As a Surgical Technician at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, you will play a vital role in the medical practitioner team, providing surgical care to patients to facilitate safe and effective completion of invasive therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.

Under the guidance of surgeons, nurses, or other designated personnel, you will perform preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative duties within the scope of licensure to ensure that the operating room or environment is safe, that equipment functions properly, and that the operative procedure is conducted under conditions that maximize patient safety.

You will be accountable for utilizing and keeping current on the application of sterile and aseptic technique, surgical procedures, implementation tools and technologies, human anatomy, as well as collaborating and communicating effectively with the interdisciplinary team to facilitate a physician's performance of invasive and therapeutic procedures.


Essential Duties:


Prepare the operating room and patient for the surgical procedure by applying principles and techniques of asepsis to work assignments; set up sterile equipment, instruments, drapes, and solutions; assist with scrubbing, preparation of sterile field, gowning/gloving members of the surgical team.

Provide safe handling and care for instruments and specimens in accordance with internal procedures.

Set up the operating surgeon's sterile table to include instrument set up, clean up, and turnover in preparation for the next case.

Operate sterilization devices, including immediate use containment devices, autoclaves, and other types of sterilizers following the manufacturers' instructions. Understand the concepts of sterilizer challenge devices and sterilizer biological indicators and their appropriate use, monitoring, and tracking.


Qualifications:

Graduation from a surgical technology program accredited through the Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology (ARC-ST) or successful completion of formal on-the-job training that provides the skills necessary to receive Tech in Surgery Certification through the National Center for Competency Testing.

Six months of operating room work experience that demonstrates attainment of the requisite job knowledge, skills, and abilities is preferred.

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing may be substituted for graduation from an accredited surgical technician program.

Maintain Registration with the State of Washington and current certification through the Association of Surgical Technologists is required.

BLS with the American Heart Association is also required.


Pay Range:

$43.80 per hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.



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