Certified Surgical Technologist

CST Opportunity! Must have active CST licensure to be considered.

Full‑time day/evening rotating shifts includes weekends as needed and on call.

At Nuvance Health, we enjoy the benefits of a two‑state system as we cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone feels welcomed, respected and supported. Together, we are a team of 15,000+ strong hearts and open minds. If you share our values of connected, personal, agile and imaginative, we invite you to discover what’s possible for you and your career.

Norwalk Hospital is a 366‑bed academic and community medical center serving Fairfield County, Connecticut, and the surrounding New York Metro area. We are a Level II Trauma Center and Joint Replacement Center of Excellence, and we provide advanced cancer, heart, and neuroscience care.

• The Leapfrog Group - Grade A for quality and patient safety
• Health grades - America’s 50 Best Hospitals
• U.S. News & World Report - high performance in heart failure treatment

At Norwalk Hospital, we prioritize the health and well‑being of our team, fostering a friendly and supportive culture where collaboration and compassion are at the heart of what we do. From the moment you step through our doors, you’ll experience a sense of community that makes our hospital a truly special place to work. Our employees feel a deep connection here because we’re not just part of the community – we are its center.

Works under the direct supervision of a registered nurse while delivering safe and effective care to the patient during the intra‑operative period. Provides technical care to the surgical patient through the role of the scrub assistant. Effectively interacts with patients of all ages and health care team members, while maintaining the surgical department standards.

• Maintains a sterile environment and practices the principles of aseptic technique, maintains appropriate sterile/unsterile boundaries during surgery while functioning within a sterile field, ensures integrity of sterile packages before dispensing onto a sterile field to include looking at expiration dates, and identifies breaks in sterile technique and reports to the Circulating RN.
• Demonstrates the proper selection of instrumentation based on the scheduled procedure, checks case cart prior to the patient entering the room for appropriate instruments/supplies, prepares the surgical room with the Circulator utilizing the physician’s preference card and ensures all jackets are buttoned prior to dispensing items onto the sterile field to ensure sterility, ensures that special supplies/instruments are available prior to the patient entering the room, and communicates to the Circulating RN in a timely manner any outliers preventing the scheduled case from moving forward.
• Utilizes correct methods of cleaning and disinfection for different types of instruments, prepares opened trays and instruments for decontamination by spraying and wiping down gross soil, ensures instrument jaws are kept open and instruments with lumens are irrigated before going to decontamination, cleans, tags and removes from all broken instrument and or equipment from circulation, disassembles used loaner instruments and wipes gross soil and inventories tray for completion prior to transporting to decontamination area, and communicates to SPD in a timely manner any instrument trays needed for next cases.
• Assists with positioning of the patient maintaining correct body alignment based on the scheduled procedure, has appropriate positioning devices, OR bed and padding readily available prior to the patient entering the room, maintains the patient’s body in correct anatomical alignment, maintains proper body mechanics when transporting, moving, lifting or positioning of the patient, and communicates to the surgical team any immediate patient safety concerns or outliers such as body piercing, medication patches, broken hardware.
• Accurately performs surgical counts according to established standards for preventing retained surgical items, performs initial baseline counts of instruments, sponges and sharps according to hospital policy by separating each piece…