Open Heart Surgery Technician - Full Time

Universal Health Services, Inc.; Palmdale (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

401k with company match

SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Job summary

Universal Health Services, Inc. seeks a Surgical Technician to support the OR team in Palmdale, CA. You will assist in instrument cleaning, sterilization, and set assembly, while ensuring accurate counts and smooth turnover for all procedures.

Qualifications include 2 years’ OR experience as a Surgical Tech and one year scrubbing for cardio-thoracic procedures; certification requirements include National Surgical Technician and BLS. Join a collaborative environment with strong benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ recent operating room experience as a Surgical Tech.
• Minimum 1 year experience first scrubbing for cardio-thoracic/coronary artery bypass surgery.
• High school graduate or equivalent preferred.
• Graduated from an accredited Operating Room Technician Program.
• National Surgical Technician certification, required.
• Current BLS certification from American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

• Assist in instrument and supply cleaning, care, and sterilization.
• Instrument turnover for following cases in a timely, policy-compliant manner.
• M ake recommendations for procurement and maintenance of equipment.
• Assist in counts of instruments, needles and sponges per policy.
• Monitor sterilizers: temperature, cycle completion and indicator tests.
• Identify malfunctioning sterilizers from test indicators.
• Assemble instrument sets and list missing items per protocol.
• Communicate with Charge Nurse for preference card revisions.
• Assist anesthesia with TEE probe, TEE machine, decontamination and processing.

Education

Operating Room Technician Program

Job description

Position Description

• Assists in maintenance of instruments and supplies by proper cleaning, care, utilization and sterilization as required.
• Instrument/equipment turnover for "to follow" cases is efficient and consistent with appropriate time frames.
• Makes recommendations to Charge Nurse for procurement and maintenance of equipment.
• Responsible for performing counts on all surgical procedures to include instruments, needles and sponges as is appropriate and according to specific policy and procedure.
• Monitors the proper functioning of sterilizers, required temperature reached, full cycle completed and test "indicator" present.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify malfunctioning sterilizers through interpretation of those tests.
• Assists in the assembly of a wide variety of instrument sets ensuring accuracy, including listing missing instruments and signing the instrument set list according to protocol, as assigned.
• Communicates with Charge Nurse so that preference card revisions can be made.
• Assist anestheisa with TEE probe, TEE machine, decontamination and processing and TEE probe.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two (2) years’ recent operating room experience as a Surgical Tech.
• Minimum of one (1) year experience first scrubbing for cardio-thoracic/coronary artery bypass surgery.
• High school graduate or equivalent preferred
• Graduated from an accredited Operating Room Technician Program
• National Surgical Technician certification, required
• Current BLS certification from American Heart Association

This opportunity offers the following

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
• 401k plan with company match and discounted stock plan
• SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance Program
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ subsidiaries!
• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: Benefits.uhsguest.com

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