Job Description
Responsibilities/Job Description:
Fairview has an immediate opening for a Surgical Technologist in the OR at St. John's Hospital located in Maplewood, MN.
We’re offering an up to $6,500 sign-on bonus and up to a $5,000 relocation bonus!
Schedule: This position will be working 1.0 FTE (80 hours every two weeks). The shift length will be 8 hours primarily day shift, with occasional evening/night shifts. This position will also work a weekend rotation of approximately one weekend per month.
As a Surgical Technologist, you’ll assist in surgical procedures by preparing the operating room, arranging, and passing instruments to surgeons, and ensuring a sterile environment under the guidance of a Registered Nurse. You’ll play a crucial role in supporting the surgical team and maintaining the safety and efficiency of the operating room.
Our Surg techs work as a part of a strong team and their cases include, but are not limited to, general, dental, ear, nose, and throat, endoscopy, vascular, thoracic, open heart, orthopedics, neurology, bariatrics, solid organ transplant, gynecologic, colo-rectal, urology, plastics, and Da Vinci robotics.
About our OR at UMMC East Bank:
The East Bank Campus is a teaching hospital and has 24 newly renovated Operating Rooms.
Our Operating Room is performing an average of 60 cases per day.
We provide innovative surgical suites, including a hybrid suite and intraoperative MRI suites, for adult patients needing surgical intervention.
Our welcoming, accepting team is filled with a wide variety of personalities who are all kind and help foster our family-like atmosphere. We are looking for a new team member who is open with their communication and collaboration, who is willing to learn new skills, who is flexible, who can handle stress well, and who is open to the challenges involved with our complex surgeries.
For more information about our East Bank OR, please watch our video here. Come join our team today!
About Fairview
Fairview Health Services is an industry-leading, award-winning nonprofit that offers an entire network of healthcare services. Fairview is one part of M Health Fairview, a partnership between the University of Minnesota, M Physicians and Fairview Health Services. Together, we combine the University’s deep history of clinical innovation and training with Fairview’s extensive roots in community medicine. Our care portfolio includes community hospitals, academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, facilitated living centers, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, counseling, pharmacies and benefit management services.
Apply today to join our 34,000+ employees and 5,000+ system providers working to build lasting relationships with the people we serve: our patients, our communities, and each other.
As a Surgical Technologist, you will be responsible for:
Supplying appropriate instruments, suture, and specialty items.
Maintaining aseptic technique during all sterile procedures.
Ensuring accurate identification and handling of specimens.
Counting all required sponges, sharps, and instruments.
Assuring availability and accurate functioning of supplies and equipment.
Modifying clinical interventions based on population served.
Nurturing a culture of improvement, efficiency, and innovative thinking.
Anticipating the surgeon’s needs.
Following appropriate action in emergency situations.
Required Qualifications:
Complete one of the following by hire date:
Military Surgical Assistant; OR
LPN (licensed in MN) Surgical Assistant; OR
Surgical Technologist training
Basic Life Support (BLS) through Health Care Providers (or ability to obtain by hire date)
Preferred Qualifications:
Graduate from an accredited Surgical Technologist program
AST certification or certification eligible at time of hire
1 to 3 years surgical tech experience
Other Required Skills:
Knowledge of physical, psychosocial, and cognitive developmental needs of population served.
Knowledge of age-appropriate outcomes and interventions.
Desired Skills:
Demonstrate the ability to work under stress in a variety of situations.
Ability to work well under a team environment.
Excellent communication skills.
The ability to prioritize and multi-task in a complex work environment.
Qualifications:
$33.24-$46.92 / Hourly
Overview:
Fairview Health Services is hiring a Cardiovascular Surgical Technologist for the Operating Room at our M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital location in Maplewood, MN.
We’re offering an up to $8,000 sign-on bonus and up to a $5,000 relocation bonus!
For Cardiovascular: $2.50/hr additional augmentation after completion of orientation (typically 12 weeks)
As a Surgical Technologist, you will efficiently perform the functions of a scrub person during surgical procedures delivering patient care services served during the shift of duty in collaboration with the RN. You will also be collaborating to carry out the standards of nursing practice and patient care, accurate use of supplies/equipment and maintenance of the surgical suite under the direction of an RN.
Schedule: This position will be working 0.8 FTE (64 hours every two weeks). The shift length will be 8 hours on the day/evening shift. This position will also work a rotating weekends.
From the moment patients and visitors walk into St. John's Hospital, they experience our warm, inviting atmosphere and caring, personal staff.
We offer state-of-the-art technology.
Combined with the expertise of our specialists, nurses, and staff, you will be able to contribute to our innovative healing environment and personal, compassionate health care delivery!
We are a Bariatric Center of Excellence as well as a Robotic Center of Excellence with General, Urology, GYN and Oncology being the largest volume of Robotic cases.
Other services include Open Heart, complex Neuro/Spine, Ortho, Podiatry, General, GYN, Urology, Colorectal, Plastics, ENT, Oral, and Vascular
We have 8 innovative ORs which average around 20-30 cases per day.
We have a robust training program to help you feel supported during your initial training. Our team is very focused on open collaboration, closed loop communication, and supporting each other in every way possible. We are seeking someone who is a team player, confident in their skillset, a patient advocate, and dedicated to safety, sterile technique, and enforcing policies and procedures.
Free parking!
About Fairview
Fairview Health Services is an industry-leading, award-winning nonprofit that offers an entire network of healthcare services. Fairview is one part of M Health Fairview, a partnership between the University of Minnesota, M Physicians and Fairview Health Services. Together, we combine the University’s deep history of clinical innovation and training with Fairview’s extensive roots in community medicine. Our care portfolio includes community hospitals, academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, facilitated living centers, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, counseling, pharmacies and benefit management services.
Apply today to join our 34,000+ employees and 5,000+ system providers working to build lasting relationships with the people we serve: our patients, our communities, and each other.
Job Tags
Hourly pay, Immediate start, Relocation package, Flexible hours, Shift work, Night shift, Day shift, Afternoon shift,