Surgical First Assist Cert

CommonSpirit Health; Mount Sterling (KY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health is seeking a Surgical First Assistant for Saint Joseph Mount Sterling in Kentucky. The role supports the surgical team during operative procedures, focusing on exposure, hemostasis, and wound closure under the surgeon’s direction.

You will collaborate with the operating team and report to your Team Leader, performing duties that ensure a safe surgical experience and patient care.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited surgical technology program.
• 1–3 years of surgical technician experience.
• Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days.
• Certified Surgical First Assistant NASC or equivalent on hire.
• Certified First Assistant – CST preferable.

Responsibilities

• Assist with patient positioning, sterile draping, and antiseptic prep.
• Open/close surgical sites, harvest grafts, assist with hemostasis and wound closure.
• Assist in securing drainage and applying wound dressings.
• Place Foley catheters, splints/casts, and administer local anesthesia under supervision.

Skills

CPR

Surgical support

Education

Graduate from an accredited surgical technology program

Certified Surgical First Assistant NASC

Certified First Assistant – CST

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Surgical First Assistant, you will provide critical patient care by directly assisting the surgeon during operative procedures, working under their immediate direction. You will instrumental in ensuring a safe surgical experience through technical support for exposure, hemostasis, and wound closure.

Every day you will collaborate closely with the surgical team, performing duties under the guidance of the operating surgeon, circulating nurse, and reporting to your designated Team Leader. This involves a range of assigned tasks to support the surgical process effectively.

To be successful, you will demonstrate exceptional technical proficiency in assisting the surgeon, maintaining acute awareness of the surgical field and patient safety.

• Assists with positioning the patient, provide application of surgical antiseptic solution and draping the patient in a standardized sterile fashion.
• Under physician supervision, may be expected to open and close surgical sites, harvest grafts, assist with hemostasis, dissect and remove tissue, insert devices, alter tissue and other such procedures as requested.
• Provide assistance in securing drainage systems to tissue and applying appropriate wound dressing.
• Under professional supervision, may be expected to perform specific significant tasks, which includes applying and removing splints/casts, placing foley catheters, and administering local anesthesia.

Job Requirements

Required

• Other Graduate from an accredited surgical technology program, upon hire and
• 1-3 years One year of surgical technician experience, upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days and
• Certified Surgical First Assistant NASC, upon hire or
• Certified Surgical First Assistant, upon hire or
• Certified First Assistant - Certified Surgical Technologists, upon hire and

Preferred

• 1-3 years One year Surgical Assisting experience, upon hire and
• Certified Surgical Assistant, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph Mount Sterling, a not-for-profit, faith-based hospital founded in 1918. Formerly known as Mary Chiles Hospital, Saint Joseph Mount Sterling serves as a 42-bed community hospital and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.