What are the responsibilities and job description for the Surgical Technologist position at Shriners Children's?
Company Overview
Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.
All employees are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage on their first day! In addition, upon hire all employees are eligible for a 403(b) and Roth 403 (b) Retirement Saving Plan with matching contributions of up to 6% after one year of service. Employees in a FT or PT status (40 hours per pay period) will also be eligible for paid time off, life insurance, short term and long-term disability and the Flexible Spending Account (FSA) plans. Additional benefits available to FT and PT employees include tuition reimbursement, home & auto, hospitalization, critical illness, pet insurance and much more! Coverage is available to employees and their qualified dependents in accordance with the plans. Benefits may vary based on state law.
Job Overview
We currently have an opening for a full-time Surgical Technologist to join our Portland, OR team. Provides quality individualized patient care based on the application of scientific knowledge, surgical technologist education and interpersonal skills. Care is provided primarily during the intraoperative phase and also includes preoperative and postoperative phases of the patient's surgical experience.
Responsibilities
- Competency to create and maintain a sterile field, providing equipment and supplies, performing sponge, sharps and instruments counts.
- Providing visualization of operative site.
- Independently pulls cases utilizing preference sheets and OR special equipment lists.
- Updates, reviews lists making changes as necessary. Reviews cases, and equipment prior to start of case.
- Is scrubbed in and has equipment prior to patient arriving into the OR suite
- Verifying efficacy of equipment, operating, maintaining, verifying, and recording efficacy of equipment
- Determines and documents efficacy of equipment. Records reflect accurate description of operations, sterilization, and use of equipment
- Familiar with proper assembly, operation, and disassembly of all OR equipment and attends in-service on new equipment
- Attends in-service on new equipment, completes competency evaluation successful in operation and maintaining equipment used within the department
This is not an all inclusive list of this job's responsibilities. The incumbent may be required to perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
Qualifications
Required
- Associate in Surgical Technology
- Surgical Technologist certification (CST)
- Basic Life Support by start date (BLS, through American Heart Association only)
- 1 year experience as OR scrub
- COVID-19 Vaccination
