Job Type: Regular
Time Type: Part time
Work Shift: Rotating (United States of America)
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Job Type:
Regular
Scheduled Hours:
16
Work Shift:
Rotating (United States of America)Contributes to the Hospital’s mission to care, to heal, and to excel in service to our community by being an integral part of the surgical services team assisting with patient care and responding to planned and unplanned surgical events. This non-licensed clinical staff position has an impact on reducing patient harm by preparing and maintaining sterile fields and equipment and on physician satisfaction and the overall effectiveness of the surgical services team by anticipating their needs.
Job Description:
As part of the Patient Care Services – Surgical Services team and under the direction of a Registered Nurse and within AORN standards and guidelines, the Surgical Technologist:
Retrieves and review case cart to ensure all physician requested supplies, instruments and equipment are available and sterile for use in case.
Opens sterile supplies according to aseptic technique in preparation for the surgical procedure.
Scrubs for cases according to established sterile procedures. Changes into operative clothing; wears sterile gown and gloves, and assists surgeons with same.
Prepares and maintains a surgical field.
Assembles equipment and instrumentation based on the surgical procedure.
Assists in surgical procedure, anticipating, planning for and responding to the needs of the patient, surgeon and other team members.
Education/Experience:
Required: Graduate of an accredited or US Armed Forces Surgical Technologists school and/or program or employed as a Surgical Technologist at a surgical facility on or before July 1, 2013. Preferred: At least one year operating room scrub experience
LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS:
Required: Must obtain Surgical Technician Certification within 12 months of graduation date.
Preferred: Current Surgical Technician Certification upon hire
Note: Surgical Technologists that were employed as Surgical Technologists in a surgical facility prior to July 1, 2013 are exempted from the certification requirement, as allowed by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting.
FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
