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UT Health Certified Surgical Technologist - Ophthalmology in Texas Medical Center-Houston, Texas
Certified Surgical Technologist - Ophthalmology
Location: Texas Medical Center-Houston, Texas
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Category: Clinical Professionals
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Requisition #: 240001X6
What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
UTHealth Houston Ophthalmology is hiring for a Certified Surgical Technologist to join their team of professionals. The CST will work as a scrub technician for ocular surgical procedures and clean, sterilize, and maintain surgical instruments. Ophthalmic surgical experience in laser-assisted cataract surgery and/or oculoplastic surgery is a plus
Location: 6400 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas 77030
Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:
100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...
Free financial and legal counseling
Free mental health counseling services
Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
Resources for child and elder care
Plus many more!
Position Summary:
Prepares for and participates in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care of surgical patients, under the direction of a surgeon. Functions as a member of the clinical team in a supportive role to deliver patient care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable
Position Key Accountabilities:
Prepares the operating room, including the sterile field, setting up surgical equipment, supplies and solutions, follows Standard Precautions and Transmission-Based Isolation Precautions while wearing required apparel.
Scrubs on surgical cases and participates in surgery by organizing instrumentation and sterile field, handing instruments to surgeon, assisting in exposure of the surgical field and performs related activities.
Performs patient care tasks, that may be delegated by surgeon or nursing personnel.
Performs decontamination and cleaning of the operating room.
Cleans, sterilizes and maintains surgical instruments, equipment and supplies.
Assists RN in documentation of implants, serial numbers, etc. as needed.
Follows standard departmental and hospital procedures for surgery while complying with the preferences of the surgeon.
When not scrubbed in on cases, assists the circulator in the operating room with patient transfer, positioning, management of fluids, obtaining needed items during surgery.
Effectively participates in planning and preparing for patient clinic visits ensuring appropriate schedules, test results and clinic specific requirements are available.
Answers patient questions regarding surgery and or procedures as appropriate and designated by physician.
Coordinates with Surgical Reps to assure proper implants/screws/plates etc are available in surgery.
Casting application and removal/Splinting/Bracing in the clinic setting.
Patient care responsibilities as assigned, which may include scheduling and organizing patient flow, accompanying patients to exam/procedure room, assist patients with changing to exam gowns, and transfer to exam table if needed.
Assess patient’s general condition and collect patient history. Document health history, activities, medication dispensed/prescribed in the medical record and provides patient education materials, communicates physician advice/instructions to patient.
Wound dressing changes, prepare injections, suture and staple removal, sterile tray set-ups, obtain lab/x-ray reports.
Documents MRI, CT scans, labs, referrals into EMR and educate patient regarding these referrals as instructed by physician.
Documents referrals to other physicians and educate patient regarding these referrals as instructed by physician.
Cleans exam rooms.
Stocks and manages par levels in exam rooms.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Certification/Skills:
Current certification as Surgical Technologist (CST) by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA)
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certified
Minimum Education:
Current certification as Surgical Technologist (CST) by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA)
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certified
Minimum Experience:
One year of experience as a certified surgical technologist
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 50 pounds frequently and/or up to 20 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:
This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code § 51.215
Residency Requirement:
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.
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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery and excellence in patient care. The most comprehensive academic health center in the UT System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region, UTHealth Houston is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing and public health and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston includes The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, as well as the growing clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services. The university’s primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.
UTHealth Benefits
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