Title: Surgical Technician

Location: Long Beach, CA - Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

Department: Surgery Services

Status: Full Time

Shift: Days - 12 hour shifts

Pay Range: $36.15/hr. - $41.60/hr.

Bonus: $3, 000.00 - Sign On Bonus

At MemorialCare Health System, we believe in providing extraordinary healthcare to our communities and an exceptional working environment for our employees. Memorial Care stands for excellence in Healthcare. Across our family of medical centers, we support each one of our bright, talented employees in reaching the highest levels of professional development, contribution, collaboration, and accountability. Whatever your role and whatever expertise you bring, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential in an environment of respect, innovation, and teamwork.

Position Summary:

Under the supervision of a RN, scrubs for surgical procedures in the Operating Room as assigned. Provides safe cost-effective patient care throughout the preoperative, intra-operative, and post-operative periods to the Operating Room patient according to established LBMC standards.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

List of broad job specific functions.

• Demonstrates the ability to safely and competently perform all aspects of surgical techniques/procedures.

• Demonstrates knowledge of the clinical information system and applies principles to patient documentation.

• Serves as a role model and assists new staff members or students.

• Serves as a preceptor for new employees/students in the scrub role.

• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of patient privacy rights. Maintains confidentiality of all medical, financial and other sensitive material in printed, electronic or verbal form, which may jeopardize the privacy of patients and or employees.

• Demonstrates the ability to use good customer service skills by managing and acknowledging patient-family-significant other expectations.

• Demonstrates tact, sensitivity and discretion.

• Demonstrates the ability to integrate knowledge of job specific competencies.

• Ability to be at work and be on time.

• Ability to follow company policies, procedures and directives.

• Ability to interact in a positive and constructive manner.

• Ability to fulfill the on-call requirement of the department

• Ability to prioritize and multitask.

Placement in the pay range is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, relevant years of experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, there may be additional compensation available for this role, including but not limited to, shift differentials, extra shift incentives, and bonus opportunities. Health and wellness is our passion at MemorialCare-that includes taking good care of employees and their dependents. We offer high quality health insurance plan options, so you can select the best choice for your family. And there's more... Check out our MemorialCare Benefits for more information about our Benefits and Rewards. Minimum Requirements:

Qualifications/Work Experience

• 2+ years of experience as a Surgical Technician in an Operating Room is required, OR if less than 2 years of experience, must be certified within 6 months of hire.

Education/Licensure/Certification

• Graduation from a surgical technician program or equivalent training, is required.
• A current American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (CPR & AED) certification is required
• High School Diploma or equivalency or evidence of higher education required