Surgical Tech - Labor and Delivery

Chatham Hospital Inc; Chapel Hill (NC); Presencial; USD 32 000 - 45 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

UNC Medical Center's Labor & Delivery is seeking a Surgical Technologist I to join the maternity team. This full-time role, 36 hours per week, features a day/night rotating schedule including weekends in Chapel Hill, NC.

Under supervision of a surgeon and registered nurse, you will prepare surgical suites, maintain sterile fields, assist with C-sections and other obstetrical procedures, and ensure all instruments are properly cleaned and handled to maximize patient safety.

Qualificações

• Strong communication and customer service abilities.
• Excellent organizational and priority-setting skills.
• Successful completion of UNC Health Surgical Technologist competencies.

Responsabilidades

• Performs technical skill duties in all operating room specialty service areas.
• Maintains sterile technique and ensures proper handling of instrumentation.
• Follows aseptic technique and reports any contamination or breaks.
• Performs surgical counts and reports discrepancies as required.
• Labels drugs and solutions and monitors quantities used.
• Assists with preparation, handling and labeling of surgical specimens.
• Participates in instrument setup to support efficient procedures.
• Assists the surgeon and team, adapting to patient anatomy as needed.
• Mentors Surgical Technician Trainees and serves as a preceptor when required.

Conhecimentos

Communication skills

Customer service

Organizational skills

Surgical technologist competencies

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Description

Labor and Delivery is seeking a skilled and compassionate full time Surgical Technologist to join our dedicated maternity team. The schedule is 36 hours per week with day/night rotating schedule, including weekends.

This position plays a vital role in ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality care for mothers and newborns during labor, delivery and recovery. The L&D Surg Tech is responsible for preparing surgical suites, maintaining sterile field, assisting with C-sections and other obstetrical procedures, and ensuring all instruments and equipment are properly cleaned and handled.

Our Labor & Delivery Unit is a Level III referral center, which provides care to both normal and high-risk laboring and ante partum patients. Approximately 4,200 babies are born each year at UNC Medical Center. Several thousand patients are also seen in the triage area. In addition, our providers and staff perform numerous high-risk procedures such as vaginal and cerclage placements, amniocentesis and versions as well as various fetal procedures, including IUTs, fetal shunt placements and exit procedures. The unit consists of 15 labor and delivery rooms, 5 triage rooms, a 2-bed recovery room, and 3 operating rooms. Anesthesia coverage is provided 24/7.

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Summary

The Surgical Technologist I worksunder the supervision of a surgeon and registered nurse to facilitate the safeand effective conduct of invasive surgical procedures, ensuring that theoperating room environment is safe, that equipment functions properly, and thatthe operative procedure is conducted under conditions that maximize patientsafety. Surgical technologists possess expertise in the theory and applicationof sterile and aseptic technique and combine the knowledge of human anatomy,surgical procedures, and implementation tools and technologies to facilitate a physician's performance of invasive therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. Has baselineknowledge and ability to perform duties of surgical scrub at entity they serve.

Responsibilities

• Performs technical skill duties in all operating room specialty service areas, ensuring that proper technical practices are employed according to accepted standards of process.
• Provides proper maintenance, assembly, handling, and sterilization techniques of specialty instrumentation.
• Follows aseptic technique. Proactively identifies contamination and/or breaks in aseptic technique and implements corrective actions.
• Performs surgical counts. Follows policies and procedures for incorrect counts and reports discrepancies appropriately.
• Labels drugs and solutions; monitors quantities used.
• Assists in the proper identification, preparation, handling, and labeling of surgical specimens.
• Actively participates in the planning and set up of instruments, supplies, and surgical drapes in an organized manner to provide optimal accessibility during the procedure.
• Assists the surgeon, demonstrating an understanding of the patient's anatomy and abnormalities which affect the surgical procedure.
• Assists in picking cases and planning of instrument needs.
• Recognizes and modifies scrubbing procedures based on pertinent information to develop modifications to standard approaches to care and communicates with the surgical team. Responds to surgical emergencies and follows hospitalwide emergency management plans.
• Inventories, receives, and stores supplies under the direction of Surgical Services leadership.
• Identifies and reports defective instruments, supplies, and equipment. Assists with restocking operating/procedure rooms and sub-sterile areas.
• Assists the registered nurse during the intraoperative implementation phase of nursing practice.
• Operates complex equipment and other resources in the operating room, troubleshooting as necessary
• Serves as a mentor for Surgical Technician Trainees and will serve as a preceptor as needed.

Other information

Education Requirements

• None required as long as other position qualifications are met.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification Graduate of an accredited Surgical Technology or Nursing Program; or Graduate of a Military Training Program in Surgical Technology; or Formal education/training may be substituted for individuals with 3+ years of prior experience as a surgical tech

Professional Experience Requirements

• 0-3 years

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

• Successful completion of service specific portion of the UNC Health Surgical Technologist competencies
• Strong communication skills/customer service relations
• Excellent organizational/priority setting skill

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: Labor & Delivery

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00

Salary Range:$23.24 - $33.41 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Rotating

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

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