Prime Healthcare

Acquires and reorganizes underperforming hospitals

Certified Surgical Technologist 3

Clinical Support & Patient AdministrationPosted on Nov 9

Part-timeFarmers Branch, TX, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Graduate from a Certified Surgical Tech training program.
Hold Certified Surgical Tech (CST) certification upon hire and maintain it throughout employment.
Have experience and mastery in scrubbing minor and major procedures in general, urology, eye (cataracts), gynecology, and hand specialties; demonstrate proficiency in basic spine procedures (laminectomies), sports medicine, orthopedic total joints, complicated spinal fusion surgery (including 360), and complicated orthopedics, including sports medicine, total joints, and joint revisions.
Hold a current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association upon hire and maintain current certification.

Responsibilities

Lead sterile preparation and serve as the primary scrub for complex surgical cases, supporting surgeons and safe, efficient operating room performance.
Serve as a lead surgical technologist for complex and specialty procedures, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical expertise to surgical staff while modeling best practices in sterile technique and patient safety.
Coordinate and prepare operating rooms for highly specialized procedures, ensuring advanced instrumentation, implants, and equipment are available while anticipating surgeon preferences and procedural needs.
Provide advanced intraoperative support by passing instruments, maintaining sterile technique, anticipating next steps, and troubleshooting equipment or supply issues to support surgical outcomes.
Ensure accurate counts of sponges, needles, instruments, and implants; support implant documentation, specimen handling, and case tracking in accordance with regulatory requirements.
Support onboarding and training of new surgical technologists, assist with competency development, and serve as a resource for clinical questions, specialty techniques, and equipment use.

Overview

Department: Surgery

Shifts Available: Variable

Employment Type: Per Diem (PD/PRN)

Hours: Variable

Location: Dallas Medical Center – Farmers Branch, TX

We are seeking a Certified Surgical TechnologistIII sometimes referred to as aSurgical Tech III, OR Tech III or Scrub Tech III.The Certified Surgical Technologist III (CST III) serves as an advanced surgical team member responsible for supporting highly complex surgical procedures, ensuring optimal operating room efficiency, and serving as a clinical resource for surgical staff. The CST III leads advanced case preparation, assists surgeons by maintaining a sterile field and anticipating procedural needs, mentors’ surgical technologists, and promotes best practices in patient safety, infection control, and regulatory compliance.This position is on a per diem basis, meaning PD/PRN as needed.

Responsibilities

The Certified Scrub Tech III (CST III) leads sterile preparation and serves as the primary scrub for complex surgical cases, using advanced skills to support surgeons and drive safe, efficient OR performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (includes, but not limited to):

Advanced Clinical Leadership – Serve as a lead surgical technologist for complex and specialty procedures, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical expertise to surgical staff while modeling best practices in sterile technique and patient safety

Complex Case Preparation – Coordinate and prepare operating rooms for highly specialized procedures, ensuring availability of advanced instrumentation, implants, and equipment while anticipating surgeon preferences and procedural needs

Intraoperative Expertise – Provide advanced intraoperative support by passing instruments, maintaining sterile technique, anticipating next steps, and troubleshooting equipment or supply issues to support optimal surgical outcomes

Instrument and Implant Management – Ensure accurate counts of sponges, needles, instruments, and implants while supporting implant documentation, specimen handling, and case tracking in accordance with regulatory requirements

Education and Mentorship – Support onboarding and training of new surgical technologists, assist with competency development, and serve as a resource for clinical questions, specialty techniques, and equipment use

Qualifications

Before we go any further, we do have some deal-breakers. You must have: 

Graduate of a Certified Surgical Tech. (CST) training program
Certified Surgical Tech (CST) Certification upon hire required and maintained for employment.
Experience and Mastery, in scrubbing minor and major procedures in the generalized surgical specialties, (General, Urology, Eye (cataracts), Gynecology, and Hand Specialty, in addition to, demonstrates proficiency and skill in basic spine procedures (Laminectomies), Sports Medicine, Orthopedic Total Joints, Complicated spinal fusion surgery (including 360), and Complicated Orthopedics: Sports Medicine and Total Joints, and Joint Revisions.
Current BLS (AHA) upon hire and maintain current, Current CST certificate upon hire.

Employment Status

Per Diem
Shift

Days
Equal Employment Opportunity

Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf

About the Company

Prime Healthcare

Acquires and reorganizes underperforming hospitals

Prime Healthcare operates a network of hospitals and outpatient centers across the United States, concentrating on turning around financially struggling facilities. It invests in infrastructure and technology, restructures operations, and negotiates payer terms (including pursuing higher out-of-network reimbursements) to improve financial performance, and it manages both for-profit hospitals and not-for-profit facilities through the Prime Healthcare Foundation. The company aims to raise clinical quality and patient safety while expanding access in hundreds of communities, though it has faced legal and regulatory scrutiny over billing practices and service-line decisions. Its goal is to stabilize and improve the financial and clinical performance of underperforming hospitals so they can continue serving their communities.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: Debt Financing
Total funding: $2.2B
Headquarters: Ontario, CA
Founded: 2001

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