At Powell Valley Healthcare, providing quality healthcare to our community is our top priority. We are located in the heart of Powell, Wyoming; just 25 miles outside of Cody. We believe in creating positive and safe environments for both our patients and our staff. Being part of our organization means becoming a cornerstone in the patient experience and their care.
Here at PVHC, we offer a wide array of benefits in a way that allows you to choose options and build a package that works best for you. Some of the benefits we offer to our full-time and part-time staff include:
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Long term disability coverage
- PTO – New employees accrue the equivalent of up to twenty days of PTO withing their first calendar year
- EIB (Extended Illness Bank) – Our version of accrued sick leave
- Paid Holidays
- Tuition Savings Plan
- Opportunities to cash out PTO for personal use, student loan payments, and in-house medical bills
- Tuition reimbursement – up to $5,000 per year
- Fun to be Fit program and Club Dauntless Membership Discount
- HRA – Flex spending accounts
POSITION SUMMARY:
Current Opening: One full-time position (6:30 AM – 5:00 PM) with required on-call shifts as well.
Facilitates the operative or other invasive procedure by preparing and providing the required sterile instruments, supplies, and equipment. Maintains the sterile field and anticipates and responds to the needs of the surgical team.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Function as a scrub person during operative and other invasive procedures by:
- Assembling supplies and equipment required for the procedure.
- Preparing and organizing sterile supplies and instruments for the procedure.
- Performing counting with the RN circulator.
- Assisting with placement of sterile drapes.
- Providing instruments and supplies to the surgical team during the procedure.
- Maintaining an organized sterile field.
- Ensuring sterility of the field and taking corrective actions as needed.
- Preparing sterile dressings.
- Clean and prepare surgical instruments for processing and transport them to the decontamination areas.
- Assist with post procedure cleaning of the operative or other invasive procedure room and preparation of room for subsequent patients.
- Participate in ongoing educational and competency verification activities.
- Maintain privacy and confidentiality of individuals and health information.
- Other duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Graduate from an accredited surgical technology program.
- Certified Surgical Technologist (CST).
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification.
- One year of perioperative services experience.
- Basic computer skills (Microsoft word).
SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Read, analyze and interpret common scientific and technical journals.
- Respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers and regulatory agencies.
- Solve practical problems in a calm, reasoned manner.
- Modify care based on the developmental / functional age of the patient.
- Act as a patient advocate.
- Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Seeks assistance appropriately.
- Solve practical problems.
- Interact assertively and tactfully when dealing with conflict and in group solving activates.
- Demonstrate a professional, open-minded approach in identifying problems and resolving problems/conflicts.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS/REQUIREMENTS:
- Regularly lifting or move objects weighing 10 lbs. and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
- Reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, stooping, bending, crouching, and working with equipment.
- Subject to inside and possibly outside weather conditions.
- The employee is also subject to exposure to blood and body fluids, proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical shock, exposure to burns and radiant energy, exposure to explosives, exposure to toxic chemicals and biological agents.