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Surgical Tech II, Belle Meade Outpatient OR
Vanderbilt University Medical Center ā¢ Nashville, TN 37230 ā¢ Posted 30+ days ago
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The Surgical Technician II at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Belle Meade Outpatient OR facilitates patient care by assisting physicians and nursing staff before, during, and after surgical procedures. This role involves creating and maintaining a sterile field, providing instruments and supplies required by surgeons in a sterile manner, and performing competently most of the cases in a given service/shift. NBSTSA certification is required.
Responsibilities
- Facilitates patient care by assisting the surgeon before, during, and after surgical procedures.
- Plans, sets up, performs, and cleans up the assigned surgical procedure as a circulator and as a scrub tech.
- Performs sharp, sponge, and instrument counts according to policy.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and the ability to apply the Principles of Asepsis in creating and maintaining the sterile field.
- Performs sharp, sponge, and instrument counts according to policy.
- The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
Qualifications
Required
- Graduate of an approved discipline specific program.
- Minimum of 1-year relevant experience.
- Certified Surgical Technologist.
- Holds current certification established by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA).
About Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Vanderbilt Health, based in Nashville, Tennessee, is a prominent healthcare system offering patient care, medical education, nursing education, and research services. It includes leading adult and children's hospitals in the Southeast, along with over 200 clinics and 3 community-based hospitals, providing specialized services like trauma care, transplant services, cancer treatment, and more. With a focus on personalized care and scientific advancements, Vanderbilt Health is recognized nationally for its high-quality care for patients of all ages.
Full Job Description
**Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:** Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
**Organization:**
VHBM Operating Rooms
**Job Summary:**
The Surgical Technologist II facilitates patient care by assisting physicians/nursing staff before, during and after surgical procedures by creating and maintaining, a sterile field and providing the instruments and supplies required by the surgeons in a sterile manner according to established plan for patient care with occasional guidance. The Surgical Technologist is able to perform competently most of the cases in a given service/shift. NBSTSA certification is required.
About this location:
Vanderbilt Health Belle Meade is a multi-specialty facility designed to provide an array of services across several medical specialties and will provide convenient, state-of-the-art care closer to where patients live and work. The 50,000 square foot building has 7 operating rooms, clinic exam rooms, infusion stations and imaging capabilities.
This outpatient surgery center is combined with a surgical clinic and infusion center. The center will focus on orthopedic and urology surgeries, including joint replacement, hand, wrist, and upper arm operations, joint arthroscopic surgery, foot and ankle surgeries, prostate surgery, ureteral stents, and high-tech kidney stone management.
Position Shift:
- Full Time, Days
- Monday-Friday, 4x10s | 6:30am - 5:00pm
- No Weekends, No Holidays!
Position Qualifications:
- Required: Graduate of an approved discipline specific program.
- Required: Minimum of 1-year relevant experience.
- Required: Certified Surgical Technologist.
o Holds current certification established by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA).
Sign On Bonus:
- This full-time position offers a $20,000 (taxable) bonus to be paid over 24 months.
- The sign-on bonus is not applicable to current VUMC staff or former staff who have worked for VUMC in the past twelve months.
Relocation Bonus:
- Up to $10,000 (taxable) to be paid within 45 days after start date. Bonus amount is based on relocation mileage.
- Must relocate from greater than 100 miles to be eligible.
- This bonus is not applicable to current VUMC staff or former staff who have worked for VUMC in the past twelve months.
.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Facilitates patient care, by assisting the surgeon before, during and after surgical procedures.
- Plans, sets up, performs and cleans up the assigned surgical procedure as a circulator and as a scrub tech.
- Performs sharp, sponge and instrument counts according to policy.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and the ability to apply the Principles of Asepsis in creating and maintaining the sterile field.
- Performs sharp, sponge and instrument counts according to policy.
- The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
**Technical Capabilities**
- Surgical Equipment Knowledge (Novice): Knowledge of the specific equipment and its performance criteria, capabilities and limitations. Able to use the equipment to accomplish basic tasks associated with the specific devices. May conduct remedial maintenance and preventive maintenance.
- Procedures Knowledge (Fundamental Awareness): Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with procedures knowledge.
- Operating Room Care (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate operating room care in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments.
- Environmental Sterility & Safety (Fundamental Awareness): Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with environmental sterility and safety.
- Inventory Management (Fundamental Awareness): Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with Inventory Management. Understands Inventory Management concepts and principles. Familiar with Inventory Management tools, processes, procedures and policies.
- Surgical Technology (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate surgical technology in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
- Equipment Maintenance (Fundamental Awareness): Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience conducting maintenance activities in area of assignments.
Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area can be defined as credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings.
These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health's reputation for excellence in these areas that has made us a major center for patient referrals from throughout the Mid-South.
Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership in medical science and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.
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**Core Accountabilities:**
* Organizational Impact: Performs tasks that are typically routine that may impact team's performance with occasional guidance. * Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems. * Breadth of Knowledge: Applies knowledge of standards, established processes and procedure that apply to your own job. * Team Interaction: Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.
**Core Capabilities** **:**
Supporting Colleagues : Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.- Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.- Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner. Delivering Excellent Services: - Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.- Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner. - Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support. Ensuring High Quality: - Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department. Managing Resources Effectively : - Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service. - Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources. - Makes Data Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error. Fostering Innovation : - Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them. - Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action. - Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.
**Position Qualifications:**
**Responsibilities:**
**Certifications:**
Certified Surgical Technologist - National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA)
**Work Experience:**
Relevant Work Experience
**Experience Level :**
1 year
**Education:**
Graduate of an approved discipline specific program
Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and to the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action. EOE/AA/Women/Minority/Vets/Disabled
**Organization:**
VHBM Operating Rooms
**Job Summary:**
The Surgical Technologist II facilitates patient care by assisting physicians/nursing staff before, during and after surgical procedures by creating and maintaining, a sterile field and providing the instruments and supplies required by the surgeons in a sterile manner according to established plan for patient care with occasional guidance. The Surgical Technologist is able to perform competently most of the cases in a given service/shift. NBSTSA certification is required.
About this location:
Vanderbilt Health Belle Meade is a multi-specialty facility designed to provide an array of services across several medical specialties and will provide convenient, state-of-the-art care closer to where patients live and work. The 50,000 square foot building has 7 operating rooms, clinic exam rooms, infusion stations and imaging capabilities.
This outpatient surgery center is combined with a surgical clinic and infusion center. The center will focus on orthopedic and urology surgeries, including joint replacement, hand, wrist, and upper arm operations, joint arthroscopic surgery, foot and ankle surgeries, prostate surgery, ureteral stents, and high-tech kidney stone management.
Position Shift:
- Full Time, Days
- Monday-Friday, 4x10s | 6:30am - 5:00pm
- No Weekends, No Holidays!
Position Qualifications:
- Required: Graduate of an approved discipline specific program.
- Required: Minimum of 1-year relevant experience.
- Required: Certified Surgical Technologist.
o Holds current certification established by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA).
Sign On Bonus:
- This full-time position offers a $20,000 (taxable) bonus to be paid over 24 months.
- The sign-on bonus is not applicable to current VUMC staff or former staff who have worked for VUMC in the past twelve months.
Relocation Bonus:
- Up to $10,000 (taxable) to be paid within 45 days after start date. Bonus amount is based on relocation mileage.
- Must relocate from greater than 100 miles to be eligible.
- This bonus is not applicable to current VUMC staff or former staff who have worked for VUMC in the past twelve months.
.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Facilitates patient care, by assisting the surgeon before, during and after surgical procedures.
- Plans, sets up, performs and cleans up the assigned surgical procedure as a circulator and as a scrub tech.
- Performs sharp, sponge and instrument counts according to policy.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and the ability to apply the Principles of Asepsis in creating and maintaining the sterile field.
- Performs sharp, sponge and instrument counts according to policy.
- The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
**Technical Capabilities**
- Surgical Equipment Knowledge (Novice): Knowledge of the specific equipment and its performance criteria, capabilities and limitations. Able to use the equipment to accomplish basic tasks associated with the specific devices. May conduct remedial maintenance and preventive maintenance.
- Procedures Knowledge (Fundamental Awareness): Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with procedures knowledge.
- Operating Room Care (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate operating room care in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments.
- Environmental Sterility & Safety (Fundamental Awareness): Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with environmental sterility and safety.
- Inventory Management (Fundamental Awareness): Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with Inventory Management. Understands Inventory Management concepts and principles. Familiar with Inventory Management tools, processes, procedures and policies.
- Surgical Technology (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate surgical technology in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
- Equipment Maintenance (Fundamental Awareness): Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience conducting maintenance activities in area of assignments.
Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area can be defined as credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings.
These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health's reputation for excellence in these areas that has made us a major center for patient referrals from throughout the Mid-South.
Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership in medical science and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.
ā
**Core Accountabilities:**
* Organizational Impact: Performs tasks that are typically routine that may impact team's performance with occasional guidance. * Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems. * Breadth of Knowledge: Applies knowledge of standards, established processes and procedure that apply to your own job. * Team Interaction: Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.
**Core Capabilities** **:**
Supporting Colleagues : Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.- Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.- Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner. Delivering Excellent Services: - Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.- Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner. - Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support. Ensuring High Quality: - Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department. Managing Resources Effectively : - Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service. - Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources. - Makes Data Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error. Fostering Innovation : - Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them. - Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action. - Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.
**Position Qualifications:**
**Responsibilities:**
**Certifications:**
Certified Surgical Technologist - National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA)
**Work Experience:**
Relevant Work Experience
**Experience Level :**
1 year
**Education:**
Graduate of an approved discipline specific program
Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and to the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action. EOE/AA/Women/Minority/Vets/Disabled
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