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Summary: The Surgical Technologist – Non-Certified is responsible for the delivery of safe, effective, and quality patient centered care in the OR for all patient populations.
Essential Responsibilities will include the following, and other duties may be assigned.
Promote the C.A.R.E.S Standards:
1. Communication;
- Smiles, makes eye contact, and greets others with own name and role.
- Communicates with sincerity, honesty, and respect
- Assists others to understand and solve their problems
- Is collaborative
2. Accountability;
- Takes ownership in delivering excellent service at all times
- Creates a warm and caring first impression
- Follows procedures, policies, and guidelines
- Is mindful of conserving resources
- Takes responsibility for own actions and demeanor and follows through with commitments
- Acts professionally with everyone— patients, colleagues, vendors, clinicians
- Cares for self so that can best care for others.
3. Respect;
- Contributes to discussions and support organizational decisions.
- Actively listens and speaks clearly without judgment to others.
- Demonstrates pride of ownership by showing warmth and concern, and follows through with commitments
- Does not engage in negative behaviors including gossip, undermining others, and infighting
- Asks others how best to support them
- Speaks positively about MarinHealth and colleagues
- Respect privacy and confidentiality at all times
4. Excellence;
- Takes ownership to consistently improve processes within the role, department/clinic, service area, and throughout MarinHealth®
- Strives every day to offer the best and to improve myself and my work output
- Applies best practices to guide timelines, expectations, and priorities.
- Embraces change and offer suggestions for problem resolution
- Recognizes others for outstanding performance
5. Safety;
- Takes pride in environment by maintaining safe and clean surroundings
- Works safely and creates the best environment for the delivery of quality patient care
- Embraces opportunities to learn from mistakes
- Speaks up for safety
Operating Room Preparation Duties:
- Prepares surgical suite, supplies, and equipment to meet environmental safety and infection control standards for all personnel and patients.
- Ensures the integrity of sterile packaging by opening supplies aseptically while controlling environmental factors that could expose equipment.
- Regularly checks equipment and supplies for proper working order and ensures they are ready for each surgical procedure.
- Adheres to established Company and safety requirements and procedures to ensure a safe working environment.
- Strictly adheres to aseptic techniques using a variety of supplies and instruments while actively monitoring the environment to ensure a sterile technique is maintained throughout procedures.
- Demonstrates techniques of disinfection and sterilization by adhering to center policies and procedures, ensuring a sterile field is maintained.
- Patient Pre-Operative Duties:
- Performs responsibilities as a surgical scrub for preoperative care for patients by ensuring that care is individualized, meeting the needs of each patient and surgeon.
- Assists with surgical procedures by anticipating the needs of surgeons and passing instruments.
- Identifies, corrects and reports aseptic technique breaks to the appropriate personnel.
- Assists the registered nurse with patient preparation, transfers, and in counting procedures per established policy.
Other Duties:
- Anticipates breaks in sterile technique and acts according to policy.
- Actively participates in the time-out process and identifies potentially unsafe conditions and notifies the appropriate personnel.
- Prepares specimens for laboratory analysis.
- Successfully demonstrates competent usage of proper body mechanics in all activities.
- Completes employee and patient incident documentation timely while identifying potentially unsafe conditions.
- Demonstrates a complete understanding of established emergency procedures and provides appropriate support.
- Participates in quality and safety activities, as required.
- Participates, as a member of the team to promote a positive working environment and provide backup support when necessary.
- Provides new employee orientations, training courses, and guides team members.
- Maintains, reviews, and orders additional inventory based on procedures scheduled and stock on hand based on Materials Manager’s review.
- Assists with room turnover, cleanup, patient transporting, and positioning.
- Makes suggestions to management for policy and procedure enhancements by conducting research on Best Practices, reviewing results, and presenting recommendations in a clear message.
- Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following:
·Job Knowledge and Technical Skills – Thoroughly understands all aspects of the job; upholds company standards of ethical operations by ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations; possesses the practical hands-on experience, needs some direction, drives to build a knowledge base and improve professional skills continuously.
Medical Office Environment – Possesses an understanding of a medical office operation's functionality, patient safety, and patient flow while providing optimal patient care and consideration.
Productivity and Dependability – Meets schedules, deadlines, and productivity standards; completes tasks on time or notifies the appropriate person with an alternate plan, strives to exceed productivity standards by completing work promptly, prioritizes workloads, attains needed resources, and execute a strategy that optimized results.
Communication – Speaks clearly and persuasively in all situations, listens without interrupting and seeks clarification, responds well to questions, and writes in an informative and professional manner.
Customer Service – Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; promptly responds to customer needs; solicits customer feedback to improve service; promptly responds to requests for service and assistance; meets commitments.
Teamwork – Works effectively with others; balances the team's needs and those of the individual; gives and welcomes feedback.
Judgment and Problem Solving – Gathers and analyzes information skillfully using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems; identifies and resolves issues promptly; considers relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one; uses reason when dealing with emotional topics.
Professionalism and Interpersonal Skills – Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position, tactfully approaches others, focuses on solving conflict without blame, maintains confidentiality, accepts responsibility for own actions, follows through on commitments, remains open to others' ideas and tries new things.
Adaptability – Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation, copes well with frequent changes, delays, or unexpected events.
Stress Management – Reacts and responds well under pressure; keeps emotions under control; successfully copes with demands from superiors, subordinates, and peers.
Initiative – Displays the desire to volunteer readily and undertake self-development activities by seeking increased responsibilities, sets and achieves challenging goals while demonstrating persistence in overcoming obstacles, measures self against excellence standards while asking for and offering help when needed.
Innovation – Displays original thinking and creativity, meets challenges with resourcefulness, generates suggestions for improving work, develops innovative approaches and ideas, presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention
Qualifications: Successful individuals who perform the responsibilities of this position must perform their essential duties satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to assist individuals with disabilities in performing the functions required of the position.
Education:
- Required: High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
- Required: Graduate of an approved course for OR Surgical Technologists.
Experience:
- Required: Three years of related experience or training in a clinical setting, with significant surgical scrub experience in an ambulatory surgery facility.
- Preferred: Five years of related experience or training in a clinical setting, with significant surgical scrub experience in an ambulatory surgery facility.
Licensure and Certification:
- BLS Certification
- Preferred: CST Certification.
Language Skills: Must possess the ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Writes routine reports and correspondence and speaks effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization. Able to read, write, and speak English.
Mathematical Skills: Must have the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Reasoning Ability: Must possess the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions while dealing with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Healthcare Business Acumen: Must have the knowledge and be well-versed in the nuances and complexities of the business aspects of healthcare, including Protected Health Information (PHI) procedures and safeguarding other identifiable information regarding patient data.
Computer Skills: Must have knowledge of Internet software, spreadsheet and word processing software, and Microsoft Suite of Products.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $40.00 - $53.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
