Certified Surgical Technologist - Full-Time - 7A-8P - Operating Room - Atlantic Health Morristo[...]

Atlantic Health System; Morristown (NJ); On-site; USD 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantic Health System in Morristown, NJ seeks a skilled Surgical Technologist to support sterile processing and operative care. The role requires maintaining aseptic technique, assisting surgeons, and ensuring readiness of instruments and supplies.

You will collaborate with nurses and physicians, participate in Universal Protocol, and uphold safety and education standards to deliver safe, high-quality patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Applies aseptic principles; performs surgical scrub, gowning, and gloving.
• Assembles supplies per patient and procedure requirements.
• Sets up sterile instrument table and assists in draping.
• Anticipates surgeon needs for instruments, sutures, and supplies.
• Maintains accurate sponge/needle/instrument counts with circulating nurse.
• Maintains aseptic technique and corrects contamination when needed.
• Assists with specimen handling and disposition per policy.
• Inspects instruments, trays, and packages for sterility and completeness.
• Receives and labels solutions and meds on the sterile field.
• Participates in Universal Protocol and time-out processes.
• Participates in Fire Risk Assessment and safety measures.
• Demonstrates use of equipment and reports malfunctions.
• Maintains sharps safety and guides team in safe handling.
• Keeps organized back table and uses pre-cleansing before decontam area.
• Assists with OR cleanup as needed.
• Maintains safety measures at all times.
• Maintains professional relationships with team members.
• Maintains knowledge through continuing education and certifications.
• Contributes to high-quality patient outcomes through collaboration.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Applies principles and practices of asepsis; performs surgical scrub, gowning, and gloving procedure.
• Assembles all necessary supplies according to requirements of the patient and the surgical procedure.
• Sets up sterile instrument table and prepares supplies according to type of operation. Assists in draping of patient and operative area according to need.
• Assists and anticipates needs of surgeon for instruments, sutures, sponges, and supplies according to knowledge of procedural requirements and constant monitoring of progress.
• Maintains correct count of sponges, needles, and instruments with circulating nurse and reports correctness of discrepancies according to established policy and procedure.
• Maintains and monitors aseptic technique at all times and institutes corrective measures in the event of contamination.
• Assists in care, handling and disposition of specimen according to policy.
• Inspects instruments, trays and packages to ensure sterility and completeness and with no evidence of bioburden. Ensures proper functioning of instruments before use.
• Correctly receives and labels solutions and medications on the sterile field. Verifies all solutions and medications with RN team member.
• Participates in Universal Protocol; sign in, time out and sign out per policy.
• Participates in Fire Risk Assessment. Ensures fire safety measures are met and communicated.
• Demonstrates and understands use of all equipment in the patient care areas. Communicates malfunctioning equipment or instruments immediately and requests equipment be removed and sequestered appropriately until further investigation.
• Maintains sharps safety measures in handling, transfer and disposal. Directs all team members in safe handling measures within the sterile field.
• Maintains organized sterile back table. Follows point-of-use instrument cleaning standards. Uses pre-cleansing solution on all instruments before delivering to SPD decontamination area.
• Assists with cleanup in OR as necessary.
• Maintains safety measures at all times.
• Maintains a good professional working relationship with all team members.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge through continuing education and organization and unit mandates. Achieves and maintains professional ST certification as required.
• Contributes to team efforts and high‑quality, safe patient outcomes through collaboration with peers, supervisors, surgeons, and anesthesiologists. Promotes all PRIDE values.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.