Overview

As our Surgical Tech at CHI St Vincent Infirmary, you’ll prepare the operating room for a variety of surgeries. We can’t operate without you.

The operating room (OR) runs as a team; every person on the team has an important role that directly impacts the patient. Your success in this role comes from your adaptability and enthusiasm to work with a team taking patients from a diseased process to a healing process.

CHI St Vincent Infirmary is a 600 bed faith-based, non-profit, acute care facility providing quality health care to patients and communities from all over the State of Arkansas. Our level II trauma center is a regional referral center for cardiology, trauma, behavioral health, cancer care, neurosciences, and other specialties. We have been consistently named by US News & World Report as one of the State’s best hospitals, with high performance in heart care, colorectal surgery, and joint replacement.

If you are committed to social justice, health equity, and prepared to deliver care in new, innovative ways, you belong with us.

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Responsibilities

Prepare the operating room for assigned surgical procedures with proper instrumentation and sterilization

Navigate the nuances of surgical procedures and surgeons you’ll be supporting

Adapt to the needs of emergency situations

Provide clean-up and turnover of operating room to prepare for next patient

Must be able to rotate call and report within 30 minutes, if called for a procedure

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of practical nursing with attendance of the core curriculum for perioperative nursing or equivalent training, and licensed to practice in the State of Arkansas

• Graduate of an approved surgical technology program (one or two year program)

• One year surgical experience required

• Must have completed the required hospital and unit specific orientation period

• Must be currently certified in Basic Cardiac Life Support & renewable every two years

• Must be able to rotate taking surgical call (weeknights / weekends).

Pay Range

$30.50 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.