Maimonides Medical Center · 5 months ago
Surgical TechnologistCertified
Brooklyn, New York
Full-time
Onsite
Entry Level
$44.37/hr - $44.37/hr
1+ years expMaimonides Medical Center is Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year. The Surgical Technologist is responsible for assisting in creating and maintaining a safe surgical environment, preparing sterile supplies, and supporting surgical teams during procedures.
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Responsibilities
Treatment and Patient care responsibilities are delivered with a knowledge of patient growth and development and are appropriate to the ages of the patients served
Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards
Carries out accepted scrub, gown and gloving techniques
Follows recommended sequence in organizing sterile supplies, instruments and sutures; understands specific uses of all instruments, equipment and supplies used for the surgical procedure
Sets up sterile tray; checks for completeness and proper functioning of equipment and supplies
Maintains neat and orderly back table and mayo tray to facilitate surgeon requests and provide patient care in a timely fashion
Carries out sponge, instrument and needle counts
Assists all scrubbed personnel in gowning and gloving
Hands instruments to the surgeon, has sponges, instruments, sutures, medications and solutions ready as needed
Saves and hands to circulating nurse all cultures and specimens taken during surgery
Assists in dressing the surgical site
Assists in the removal of all instruments and supplies for the disposition after surgery is completed
Assists with positioning, transfer and transport of patients as assigned
Utilizes established channels of communication to report significant changes in patient condition, problems with equipment, instrumentation, supplies, etc
Responds appropriately in crisis situations by demonstrating knowledge of emergency procedures, remaining calm, and functioning properly in emergencies
Performs CPR
Checks to ensure that emergency equipment is on hand and in good working order
Recognizes and reports malfunction or failure of equipment used in the OR to Biomedical Engineering; takes appropriate action to repair/replace such equipment (e.g., cardiac monitors, defibrillators, suction apparatus, etc.)
Qualification
Required
High school graduation plus at least 1 year of Operating Room experience required
Graduation from an approved surgical technologists program recommended, or significant experience in Peri-operative Services performing the duties of a Surgical Tech
Minimum of 1 year of Operating Room experience or a suitable combination of education and experience required
Skills related to the sterilization and instrumentation and aseptic technique
Good oral communication skills
Speaks, reads and writes English to the extent required by the position
Preferred
Certification as an Operating Room Technologist by the Association of Surgical Technologists preferred
Company
Maimonides Medical Center
Maimonides Medical Center is a hospital that offers surgical care, cardiac surgery, and orthopedic surgery services.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.43MKey Investors
Office of Mental Health
2025-04-23Grant· $0.43M
Leadership Team
Ilya Goldstein
Quality Improvement Specialist
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