Position Highlights:

• Work/life: You will find support to help you manage your personal life while building a career.
• Employee-centric: Tuition reimbursement, loan forgiveness, comprehensive major medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off, 401(k), health and wellness offerings, monthly employee events, and more.
• Lifestyle: Sandusky was voted “Best Coastal Small Town in America”. You will have the opportunity to enjoy living and working in this growing area along the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.

About Firelands Health:

Our goal at Firelands Health is to be the best & preferred independent healthcare employer for the Sandusky Bay region.

Firelands Health is the area’s largest and most comprehensive resource for quality medical care. We are “big enough to care for you, and small enough to care about you”. We are locally managed and governed as a not-for-profit healthcare facility, serving the counties of Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Huron, covering a regional service area with over 300,000 residents. Our mission is to provide excellent healthcare, promote community wellness, and improve the lives we serve.

Our Core ACE Values: Attitude: We choose to be positive and inclusive every day. Commitment: We are committed to exceed the expectations of those we serve. Enthusiasm: We will work passionately to make a difference.

What You Will Do:

• Knowledgeable of all aspects of surgical techniques and step-by-step process for routine and special procedures. Displays understanding of anatomy and physiology as it relates to the operative procedures in which they tech.
• Applies the principles of asepsis and infection control in a knowledgeable manner to provide optimum patient care. Differentiates sterilization methods for special equipment and instruments necessary for special surgical procedures.
• Prepares and knows the specific uses of all instruments, equipment and supplies used for the surgical procedures. Displays dexterity in the use of surgical instruments.
• Provides appropriate preparation and conclusion for surgical procedures. This includes having surgeon preference card items in OR room, opening surgical supplies, scrubbing early enough to prepare case, assisting circulator as needed, cleaning out room at end of case and returning all items to their appropriate location.
• Provides a safe, professional, efficient environment for the surgical patient and initiates appropriate preventative and corrective action. Performs efficiently in stressful and emergent situations.
• Develops initiative in order to inquire and explore new surgical procedures and technology relating to the operating room and to the surgical patient.

What You Will Need:

• Graduate of a two year accredited program or equivalent training in Surgical Technology. BCLS certified.
• Certification of competency by national exam by the Liaison Council on Certification, the certifying body of the Association of Surgical Technologists, Inc. If not certified at time of hire, need to be eligible at time of hire. Certification is required by the first anniversary date.
• Certification maintained according to the Association of Surgical Technologists, Inc.
• Specific requirement for First Assisting Role: completion of an approved program for the surgical tech in the first assisting role.
• Ability to understand instruction and communicate effectively in both written and oral form.