Surgical Technologist

Rebound is looking for a relief status Surgical Technologist to join our Surgery Center team. Must work a minimum of 4 shifts in a 6 week period.

As a Surgical Technologist, you will provide appropriate instrumentation and sterile supplies for surgical cases. You will also assist the surgeons during the procedures and help prepare operating rooms for procedures.

• Prepare the surgical procedures with the correct instrumentation, and sterile supplies.
• Assist surgeons with gowning and gloving.
• Assist with draping the patient.
• Pass instrumentation and sutures.
• Maintain a safe and sterile field at all times;
  Report and correct breaks in sterile technique.
• Assist with the turnovers; this includes wiping off the furniture, mopping the floor, taking dirty instrumentation to decontaminate and taking linens and garbage to the waste storage room.
• Put away supplies in the OR, ensuring package integrity, product sterility, and overall orderliness of area.
• Assist in the case picking or assembling instrument sets in central sterile as necessary.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

• Specialized training of 13 to 24 months; diploma from an accredited Surgical Tech Program.
• Registration with the State of Washington. Prefer ST certification and two-year experience in acute care facility as an ST.
• Must be adaptable and willing to complete additional tasks as assigned.
• Flexible hours, 10-hour shifts, accountable for 4 late within a 6 week period.
• Active physical exertion up to 85% of the time

• Standing and walking for 80% of working shift hours.
• Frequent pushing and pulling of equipment in OR.
• Frequent fingering of instrumentation.
• High visual demand to read paperwork and all supplies labels.
• Must be able to safely maneuver around multiple pieces of equipment in the OR rooms.
• Bending and twisting up to 20% of working shift hours.
• Lifting with a team to move patient about on the stretcher. Weight varies depending on patient.