Surgical Tech Full Time Outpatient Surgery

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Elizabethtown (KY); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance

Maternity and Paternity leave

Bereavement Leave (includes pets)

Paid Time Off

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement plan with company match

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Surgical Tech for Outpatient Surgery in Kentucky. This full-time role supports the operating room team under the supervision of the Registered Nurse, providing essential sterile technique and instrument handling.

Eligible candidates may receive a $15,000 sign-on bonus. The position requires graduation from an approved Surgical Technologist program, good communication, and the ability to work in a high-stress environment. Benefits include tuition assistance and PTO.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an approved Surgical Technologist program required.
• Good clinical, organizational, communication, customer service and critical thinking skills required.
• Ability to work in a stressful environment required.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the operating room as part of the surgical team under RN supervision.

Skills

Clinical skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Critical thinking

Customer service

Education

Surgical Technologist program

Associate's degree in Surgical Technology (preferred)

Job description

Surgical Tech - Outpatient Surgery $15,000 sign on bonus for eligible candidates! Full-time, 6:45a - 3:15p 9 days worked per pay period 8 hours shifts with rotating assigned late days

The surgical technologist is a technically trained person who functions as a member of the surgical team and performs under the supervision of the Registered Nurse in the Operating Room.

Requirements

• Graduate of an approved Surgical Technologist program required.
• Good clinical, organizational, communication, customer service and critical thinking skills required.
• Ability to work in a stressful environment required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate's degree in Surgical Technology preferred.
• Recent experience as a surgical tech in an Acute Care facility preferred.
• BLS preferred upon hire; required within 90 days.

Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match

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.

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.

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