Certified Surgical Tech

Dallas Medical Center; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 46,125 - 83,025; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Per diem

Job summary

Dallas Medical Center in Farmers Branch, TX seeks a Certified Surgical Technologist III (CST III) to lead sterile preparation, assist surgeons, and mentor teammates for complex procedures. This per diem role offers variable shifts and opportunities to impact patient safety and OR efficiency.

Responsibilities include advanced case preparation, intraoperative instrument handling, and ensuring regulatory compliance, with onboarding focus on best practices in infection control.

Qualifications

• Graduate of a Certified Surgical Tech (CST) training program.
• Certified Surgical Tech (CST) Certification upon hire required and maintained for employment.
• Experience scrubbing multiple specialties (General, Urology, Eye, Gynecology, Hand, spine procedures, Sports Medicine, Total Joints, complex revisions).
• Current BLS (AHA) upon hire and CST certification maintained for employment.

Responsibilities

• Lead sterile preparation for complex surgical cases and serve as primary scrub for high-skill procedures.
• Coordinate advanced case preparation with available instrumentation, implants, and equipment.
• Provide advanced intraoperative support by passing instruments and maintaining sterile technique.
• Manage instrument and implant counts, documentation, and case tracking in line with regulatory requirements.
• Educate and mentor new surgical technologists, supporting competency development.

Skills

Surgical leadership

Intraoperative support

Mentorship

Education

CST training program

CST certification

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a Certified Surgical Technologist III (CST III), sometimes referred to as a Surgical Tech II I, OR Tech II I or Scrub Tech II I. The Certified Surgical Technologist III serves as an advanced surgical team member responsible for supporting highly complex surgical procedures, ensuring optimal operating room efficiency, and serving as a clinical resource for surgical staff. The CST III leads advanced case preparation, assists surgeons by maintaining a sterile field and anticipating procedural needs, mentors surgical technologists, and promotes best practices in patient safety, infection control, and regulatory compliance. This position is on a per diem basis, meaning PD/PRN as needed.

Shifts Available: Variable

Employment Type: Per Diem (PD/PRN)

Hours: Variable

Location: Dallas Medical Center – Farmers Branch, TX

Responsibilities

The Certified Scrub Tech III (CST III) leads sterile preparation and serves as the primary scrub for complex surgical cases, using advanced skills to support surgeons and drive safe, efficient OR performance.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities (includes, but not limited to):

• Advanced Clinical Leadership – Serve as a lead surgical technologist for complex and specialty procedures, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical expertise to surgical staff while modeling best practices in sterile technique and patient safety.
• Complex Case Preparation – Coordinate and prepare operating rooms for highly specialized procedures, ensuring availability of advanced instrumentation, implants, and equipment while anticipating surgeon preferences and procedural needs.
• Intraoperative Expertise – Provide advanced intraoperative support by passing instruments, maintaining sterile technique, anticipating next steps, and troubleshooting equipment or supply issues to support optimal surgical outcomes.
• Instrument and Implant Management – Ensure accurate counts of sponges, needles, instruments, and implants while supporting implant documentation, specimen handling, and case tracking in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Education and Mentorship – Support onboarding and training of new surgical technologists, assist with competency development, and serve as a resource for clinical questions, specialty techniques, and equipment use.

Qualifications

Before we go any further, we do have some deal-breakers. You must have:

• Graduate of a Certified Surgical Tech. (CST) training program.
• Certified Surgical Tech (CST) Certification upon hire required and maintained for employment.
• Experience and Mastery in scrubbing minor and major procedures in the generalized surgical specialties, including General, Urology, Eye (cataracts), Gynecology, Hand Specialty, basic spine procedures (Laminectomies), Sports Medicine, Orthopedic Total Joints, Complicated spinal fusion surgery (including 360), and Complicated Orthopedics: Sports Medicine and Total Joints, and Joint Revisions.
• Current BLS (AHA) upon hire and maintain current CST certificate upon hire.

Employment Status: Per Diem

Shift: Days

Equal Employment Opportunity

Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf