Surgical Technologist - Ambulatory Surgery Center

Surgical Technologist Non Certified

The Surgical Technologist Non Certified assists surgical team members during operative procedures. Arranges and inventories sterile set-ups for surgery, and passes items as needed to the operating team while assisting in preparing and moving patients, and in cleaning the operating room. This is considered an entry-level position. Essential Responsibilities will include the following, and other duties may be assigned.

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.
• 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; Prepares specimens for laboratory analysis.
• 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.

Safety and Infection Control Duties:

• Adheres to established company and ASC 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.
• Anticipates breaks in sterile technique and acts according to policy.
• Adheres to established surgery center safety requirements and procedures to ensure a safe working environment.
• Actively participates in the time-out process and identifies potentially unsafe conditions and notifies the appropriate personnel.
• Successfully demonstrates competent usage of proper body mechanics in all activities.
• Completes employee and patient incident documentation timely while identifying potentially unsafe conditions.

Other Duties:

• Participates as a member of the team to promote a positive working environment and provide back-up 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.
• Assists with room turnover, cleanup, patient transporting, and positioning.
• Makes suggestions to management for policy and procedure enhancements by conducting research, reviewing results, and presenting recommendations in a clear message.

Competencies:

• 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:

• Education: Required: High school diploma or general education degree (GED). Required: Graduate of an approved course for OR Surgical Technologists.
• Experience: Required: Minimum of one year related experience or training in a clinical setting and surgical scrub experience in an ambulatory surgery facility.
• Licensure and Certification: Required: Basic Life Support Certification BLS. Preferred: Certified Surgical Technician CST.
• 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.
• 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 software, and Word Processing software.

Ophthalmology skills are required.