Surgical Technician - General Surgery

About the job

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital in Spokane is hiring a full-time Surgical Technician for its general surgery department, working day shifts. The surgical technologist works as the scrub tech in the surgical suite and helps patients move efficiently through the OR.

Providence describes itself as Washington's largest health care provider; in eastern Washington it serves Spokane, Stevens and Walla Walla counties.

What you'll do

• Choose and set up the sterile table with the instruments, supplies and equipment a case needs
• Pass instruments to the surgeon during procedures and keep sterile technique throughout
• Care for instruments once a procedure is finished
• Help with circulating duties under the supervision of the RN
• Work as a surgical tech, case cart surgical tech, turnover team member or service line surgical technologist as assigned

What you need

• Completion of a course in surgical technology
• Washington Surgical Technologist Registration upon hire
• National Provider BLS from the American Heart Association upon hire
• Current experience as a registered surgical technologist (finishing an accredited surgical technologist program recently may count as current experience)

Preferred

• Two years of operating room experience

Schedule

• Day shift, full-time
• Forty hours a week

Benefits

• A hiring bonus for external candidates who are eligible and meet all of its conditions
• Benefits that start on the first day of employment
• A 401(k) retirement savings plan with an employer match
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Life insurance and disability insurance
• Paid time off for parental leave, vacation, holidays and health issues
• Voluntary benefits and well-being resources
• Shift differentials, standby or on-call pay, overtime, premiums and extra-shift incentives may be offered in addition to base pay