Surgical Tech - Surgery (40 hours per week) #3120

Our Surgery Department is looking for a Surgical Tech to join their team!

Shift: 7 A.M. - 3 P.M.

Schedule: Hours may vary from scheduled shift

Hours per week: 40

Must be available for overtime and weekday, weekend, and holiday call.

Position Summary:

The Surgical Technician is responsible for aiding the RN and physician in delivering care to those patients requiring operative/invasive procedures during their intra-operative and immediate post-operative phases of care.

Hours will be primarily 7-3, occasional 6-2 and 10-6 plus call.

Job Relationships:

Reports to the Director of Surgical Services.

Primary Customer Served:

• Neonatal (0 - 30 days)
• Infant (31 days - 1 year)
• Pediatric (1 - 12 years)
• Adolescent (13 - 18 years)
• Adult (19 - 65 years)
• Geriatric (> 66 years)
• Family/Visitors
• Physicians
• Community Agencies
• Social Work Team

Education and Training Required:

• Certified Surgical Technologist
• BLS certification
• Meets health requirements

Experience:

• Previous experience in surgical care services with knowledge of aseptic principles preferred.

Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Must be able to deal with multiple priorities in a calm manner.
• Good organizational skills
• Good time management skills, can prioritize.
• Resourceful - aware of resources available for use.
• Able to work independently.
• Quick learner.
• Able to work with all types of people.
• Communication skills.
• Requires decision-making and problem solving skills.
• Must have strong interpersonal and organization skills.
• Must have understanding of the physical and emotional stress that occur with illness and disease and be able to work with individuals under these stresses.
• Must be able to interact and practice in collaboration with a variety of healthcare professionals.
• Must have the ability to motivate people and create a positive work environment.
• Must have the ability to resolves problems quickly and effectively.
• Must display a high degree of emotional maturity while keeping difficult situations in proper perspective.

Physical Requirements:

Physical Demands

• Occasionally sits while performing tasks of the role (scheduling, developing & reviewing protocols/procedures, wrapping instruments, ordering supplies).
• Occasionally carry objects weighing less than 10 pounds.
• Frequently walk and stand.
• Frequently lift up to 100 pounds while transferring and positioning patients on operating room table and maneuver equipment while using gait belts, transfer devices, etc.
• Occasionally bend to the floor, squat, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach overhead to assist with patient care or retrieve or hook up equipment and/or supplies.
• Frequently handle objects, smell, feel, control knobs, switches and levers.
• Frequently stand in the same position for an extended period of time, i.e. holding retractors and other instruments while assisting surgeon or anesthesia during procedure.
• Frequently twist i.e. while scrubbed in holding retractors and other instruments.
• Frequent grasping, pinching, and fine finger manipulation while holding retractors and other instruments.
• Occasionally reach above waist i.e., to hold patient extremities, reaching for instruments, and supplies.
• Occasionally lift up to 50 pounds, above head, i.e. irrigation fluids, instrument pans, patient extremities.
• Occasionally push up to 100 pounds, patients on carts/beds, surgery equipment & monitors.

Sight:

• Occasionally use sight capacities, including spatial, peripheral, colors & accommodation & depth perception.
• Frequently use near and far vision while reviewing computer screens, gauges on patient equipment, monitors, etc.

Cognition/Communication:

• Frequently utilize simple reading skills, normal conversations.
• Occasional exposure to comprehensive speech, both simple and complex writing skills, basic and complex math, basic computer skills.
• Frequently exposed to low volume of speech with patients and telephone conversations with other members of the healthcare team, physicians, family members, sales reps.

Environmental Conditions:

• Continual exposure to an inside, patient environment with occasional unpleasant odors or noises.
• Frequent exposure to low light or glare conditions.

Potential Hazards:

• Frequent exposure to infectious blood/body fluids and diseases requiring infection control practices, red infectious waste.
• Frequent exposure to electro cautery/smoke from escar/needles/syringes/sharps during medication administration, passing of instruments, assistance with treatments, invasive procedures, surgery.
• Frequent exposure to chemical compounds, preservatives, and cleaning agents such as Cidex, Formalin, Steris concentrate & bone cement (bone cement fumes can be potentially dangerous to pregnant women).
• Frequent potential for burns due to high heat from sterilizers and autoclaves.
• Frequent exposure to Non-Ionizing radiation while wearing protective shields, collars and film badge.

Psychological, Situational, Functional Factors:

• Frequent problem solving, analyzing, use of judgment and critical thinking in regards to OR equipment, changes of patient condition, environmental factors, and flexibility.
• Frequently able to work overtime and be on-call.
• Frequently able to work independently, take initiative, work closely and motivate others.
• Continuously plan and direct patient care, manage conflict or difficult situations.
• Frequently prioritize workflow while maintaining speed, accuracy and consistency with the change of surgery schedule and emergency cases.
• Other delegated duties.