Certified Surgical Technologist | PRN

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Uptown is a joint venture surgical hospital between Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), United Surgical Partners International (USPI), and local physicians. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center- Uptown provides a wide range of medical and surgical services for to the greater North Texas area across 8 ORs, 24 private Inpatient rooms, a full-service ED. The hospital specializes in both inpatient and outpatient procedures in Orthopedics, Joint Replacement, Spine, General, Bariatrics, Surgical Oncology, ENT, Reconstructive Surgery, and other surgical specialties.

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Uptown is currently seeking a Surgical Scrub Tech in the Surgical Department for full time, part time or PRN opportunities.

The ideal candidate will ensure sterility of all supplies and instruments during set up of surgical procedures. They will assist the circulating nurse and surgical team in maintaining sterile environment, responsible for doing sponge, needle, and instrument count pre-operatively and intra-operative with the circulating nurse. They will also assist in keeping physician preference cards accurate/updated and retain all specimens to be sent to pathology, confirming source/name of specimen with surgeon, transport all surgical equipment to appropriate cleaning areas, assists in sterile supply with cleaning and reprocessing of instrument sets, use appropriate hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, and safe practices to ensure personal safety and a safe environment. They will also assist with environmental hazard and infection control surveillance and participate in emergency preparedness drills, follow all equipment and safety guidelines and is responsible for knowledgeable use and care of equipment, serves as a resource to other members of the health care team, attends in-services, conferences, and meetings as required.

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• 401(k) with Company Contribution
• Annual profit sharing bonus

Physical demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that shall be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk, and hear. The employee shall regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and /or move up to 100 pounds.

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To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• At least three (3) years’ experience as instrument room tech
• Experience with all types of sterilizers
• Current BLS
• Knows operating room instrumentation.
• Organized in setting up operating room instrument tray.
• Understands operation of steam/ gravity sterilizer and gas/plasma sterilizers. (V-Pro)