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Surgical Technician

This position transports patients to and from the O.R., handles routine tasks related to patient care, organizes equipment, and provides general cleaning of surgical suites. Must work in the O.R.

Job Essentials

• Applies standards of and maintains sterile technique appropriately.
• Obtains and restocks supplies when needed.
• Assists with turnover of the rooms including cleaning appropriately after the case and preparing the room for the next case.
• Assists anesthesia when needed including turnover anesthesia equipment.
• Keeps department clean including keeping hallways uncluttered by returning supplies and equipment to their proper storage areas.
• Responsible for transporting patients to and from surgery.
• Transports specimens appropriately including blood and blood products.
• May scrub into procedures and assist with organ holds, extremity holds, camera holds, and retractor holds.
• May open sterile supplies.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Physical Requirements

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, sterile indicator tags, colors, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies. Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations. Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment and instruments with precision and accuracy. This includes computer use and typing for documentation, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc. Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items. Need to walk and assist with transporting / ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing / pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc). May be expected to stand in a stationary position with personal protective equipment for an extended period of time.

Location

Intermountain Health LDS Hospital

Work City

Salt Lake City

Work State

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours

28

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$17.68 - $22.98