Certified Surgical Tech - Mid-Shift

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Paducah (KY); On-site; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Maternity Leave

Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement with company match

Job summary

Baptist Health in Paducah, KY is seeking a Certified Surgical Tech for full-time day-evening shifts (11:00–19:30) with call one night per week and every fourth weekend. The technologist serves as the primary scrub person or assistant for operative procedures.

Responsibilities include scrubbing into cases, sterilizing instruments, and assisting the team under surgeon supervision. The position requires a technical diploma and CST certification eligibility.

Qualifications

• Technical Diploma from a Surgical Technologist accredited program or comparable military training.
• Certified Surgical Tech (CST) certification is required.
• Eligibility for Surgical Technologist Certification.

Responsibilities

• Scrub and assist in operative procedures and maintain the sterile field.
• Make sure instruments and supplies are available for the scheduled case.
• Assist physician with sutures or electrocautery under direct supervision of the surgeon.
• Perform decontamination of instruments and support Central Sterile Processing.

Education

Technical Diploma in Surgical Technology

CST Certification

Military Surgical Tech Training

Job description

Summary Job Description

Certified Surgical Tech Full-Time M-F 11-19:30 Call 1 night/week and every 4th weekend The Surgical Technologist serves as a primary scrub person or assistant for operative procedures.

Job Duties

Scrubbing into cases and make sure instruments and supplies are available for the scheduled case. Setting up cases ensuring that all instruments are thoroughly sterilized and maintain the sterile field during case set up. May be asked to assist physician to cut suture material and may be asked to apply electrocautery to clamps on bleeders under the direct supervision of the surgeon. Is responsible for gross decontamination of instruments including breaking down instruments for further cleaning in Central Sterile Processing. Collaborates with the circulating nurse to carry out appropriate interventions.

Requirements

Technical Diploma from a Surgical Technologist accredited program or comparable military training Certified Surgical Tech (CST) certification is required Eligibility for Surgical Technologist Certification

Benefits

Tuition Assistance reimbursement program Paid Time Off available for use upon hire Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave Bereavement Leave (includes pets) Employee Assistance Program Retirement plans with company match Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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