Surgical Tech First Assistant
Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for our Surgical Tech First Assistant opening with Parkland Medical Center today and find out what it truly means to be a part of the HCA Healthcare team.
Parkland Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include: comprehensive medical coverage, additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance, free counseling services, resources for emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing, 401(k) plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay, employee stock purchase plan, family support through fertility and family building benefits, referral services, consumer discounts, retirement readiness, rollover assistance services, preferred banking partnerships, education assistance, colleague recognition program, and time away from work program.
We are seeking a Surgical Tech First Assistant for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!
The Surgical Tech First Assistant provides aid in exposure, hemostasis, closure, and other intraoperative technical functions that help the surgeon carry out a safe operation with optimal results for the patient. In addition, the First Assist performs preoperative and postoperative duties to better facilitate proper patient care. The First Assist to the surgeon during the operation does so under the direction and supervision of that surgeon and in accordance with hospital policy and appropriate laws and regulations.
Assists nurses, surgeons, and anesthesia personnel in the indirect and direct care of patients. Includes the preparation of the O.R. rooms, patient transport, placement of equipment, and property utilized in Surgical Services i.e. the OR, PACU, SDC, and CSR. Preparing rooms with proper equipment for start of day and upcoming cases, room turnover between cases, anticipating which cases will be finishing and coordinating with nurses to bring bed into room, patient transport, and other various duties as assigned.
Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date, Certified Surgical Assistant (CSA), or Certified Surgical First Assistant (CFA).
Located in Derry, NH, Parkland Medical Center is a regional acute-care hospital offering 86 beds and a Level III Trauma Center. HCA Healthcare owns the facility, along with three other hospitals, two freestanding emergency rooms, an ambulatory surgery center, and an urgent care center in New Hampshire. The organization employs 2,600 colleagues and 554 physicians, provides $15.8 million in uncompensated care, and pays $43.8 million in taxes annually. HCA Healthcare's other New Hampshire hospitals include Portsmouth Regional Hospital and Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, as well as freestanding emergency rooms in Seabrook and Dover. In 2023, a third freestanding emergency room will open in Plaistow. HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Surgical Tech First Assistant opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today! We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.