Surgical Technologist Outpatient Surgery Center

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking a Surgical Tech to join the operating room team. The role supports the RN in procedures, performs ancillary duties, and helps maintain efficiency and sterility in a fast-paced environment.

The candidate should have an accredited surgical technologist program, with preference for those who are Certified Surgical Technologists. BLS is required within 90 days of hire.

Qualifications

• Completed accredited vocational or military surgical technologist training course.
• Certified Surgical Technologist preferred.
• BLS certification required within 90 days of hire.

Responsibilities

• Clean rooms between cases to expedite turnover.
• Stock room and assist in central sterile area.
• Support fast-paced operating room team with organization and efficiency.

Skills

Strong communication

Teamwork

Flexibility

Clinical excellence

Education

Accredited surgical technologist program

Military surgical tech training (preferred)

Job description

Summary Job Description: Surgical Tech 36 Hours Weekly, Full Time, Dayshift - No Weekends/No Holidays

The surgical technologist works under the direct supervision of a RN in the operating room environment. Must possess strong clinical knowledge and skills regarding operating room procedures. Must be highly motivated and self-directed with a positive attitude and good communication skills. Wiling to have flexible work schedules and duties, which will include ancillary duties as cleaning rooms between cases, stocking room, helping in the central sterile area and have a proven record to expedite room turn over, good organizational skills and an understanding of importance of teamwork in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements:

• Must have completed accredited vocational or military surgical technologist training course.
• Certified Surgical Technologist preferred.
• BLS required within 90 days of hire.

Company Information

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 a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

EEO Statement

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.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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