Surgery Assistant

Saint Francis Hospital South, L.L.C.; United States; On-site; USD 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint Francis Hospital South, L.L.C. is seeking a Surgery Assistant to transport patients to operating rooms and assist surgeons and circulating nurses with patient positioning. The role also performs environmental tasks to keep the OR clean and ensures supplies are stocked.

The position requires a High School diploma or GED (preferred) and emphasizes strong communication, critical thinking, and the ability to work both independently and in a team within a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Microsoft 365 and other applicable software.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to utilize critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities with competing deadlines.
• Sound ability to maintain professional and courteous behavior and adaptability in a dynamic work environment.

Responsibilities

• Transports patients to operating rooms ensuring patient safety.
• Assists with patient positioning and prep ensuring safety and sterile technique.
• Assists the surgical team by holding retractors and cameras as directed by the surgeon.
• Performs environmental activities to maintain a clean surgical suite.
• Identifies the correct patient and verifies information with strong interpersonal skills.
• Ensures supplies are stocked and sterile.
• Maintains a sterile environment.

Skills

Microsoft 365

Communication skills

Critical thinking

Multitasking

Team collaboration

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Full Time Days 11:00am-7:00pm

Job Summary:

The Surgery Assistant transports patients to operating rooms, assists surgeons and circulating nurses with patient positioning. This role performs environmental tasks including cleaning the operating rooms and equipment; and ensures supplies are stocked.

Minimum Education:

None. High School diploma, or GED, preferred.

Licensure, Registration and/or Certification:

None.

Work Experience:

None.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of Microsoft 365 and other applicable software.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal that present clear and concise information.
• Ability to utilize critical thinking skills.
• Ability to demonstrate a strong sense of personal accountability.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities with competing deadlines.
• Sound ability to maintain professional and courteous and demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in adynamic work environment.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Performs independent procedural tasks such as transporting patients while ensuring patient safety.
• Assists with patient positioning and prep in a manner that demonstrates knowledge and ensures patient safety, skin integrity and sterile technique.
• Assists the surgical team utilizing knowledge of sterile technique to hold retractors and cameras as directed by the surgeon.
• Performs environmental activities to maintain a clean and orderly surgical suite.
• Identifies correct patient to verify specific information utilizing strong interpersonal skills and abilities.
• Ensures supplies are stocked and sterile.
• Assists with maintaining a sterile environment.

Decision Making:

• Independent judgment in making minor decisions where alternatives are limited and standard policies/protocols have been established.

Working Relationships:

• Works directly with patients and/or customers.
• Works with internal and/or external customers via telephone or face to face interaction.
• Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.

Special Job Dimensions:

None.

Supplemental Information:

This document generally describes the essential functions of the job and the physical demands required to perform the job. This compilation of essential functions and physical demands is not all inclusive nor does it prohibit the assignment of additional duties.

Surgery - South Campus Location:

Tulsa, Oklahoma 74133 Under the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Use and Patient Protection Act (OMMA), a safety sensitive position is defined as any job that includes tasks or duties that the employer believes could affect the safety and health of the employee performing the task or others. This position has been identified as a safety sensitive position. This statute allows employers to lawfully refuse to hire applicants for safety-sensitive jobs or to discipline or discharge employees who work in safety-sensitive jobs if they test positive for marijuana, even if they have a valid license to use medical marijuana.

EOE Protected Veterans/Disability

Saint Francis is a Catholic, not-for-profit Health system based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are the largest private employer in Eastern Oklahoma with over 12,000 employees, including 1,000 physicians. The health system is anchored by the 1,112-bed Saint Francis Hospital, the largest hospital in Oklahoma and the 11th largest in the nation. Our system also includes hospitals in south Tulsa, Muskogee and Vinita, as well as 110 Warren Clinic locations from Monkey Island to McAlester, northeastern Oklahoma's only children's hospital, a level IV neonatal intensive care unit, a 168-bed heart hospital, and Tulsa's leading trauma and emergency center.