Enhancing the profession to ensure quality patient care.
Posted: 28-May-25
Location: Salem, Oregon
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: 11654
Location Site: Salem Hospital, 890 Oak St. SE, Salem, OR 97301
Department: SH Operating Room
Position Type: Full Time, 40 hours/week, Non-exempt
Schedule: Variable 4 days on 10-hour shifts. Beginning at 6:00 a.m. with staggered arrival times until 7:00 p.m.
Your role with us
As a surgical technologist at Salem Health, you’ll be a vital part of our dynamic operating room team, directly supporting high-acuity procedures that improve and often save lives. Working in one of the busiest Level II Trauma Centers on the West Coast, you'll assist in a wide range of surgeries, from open-heart and neuro to bariatric and trauma, across 18 state-of-the-art ORs. Your attention to detail, commitment to sterile technique, and ability to anticipate surgeon needs will help ensure every procedure is safe, efficient and precise. This is more than a technical role, it’s an opportunity to be a key contributor to a collaborative surgical team that values continuous improvement, mentorship and clinical excellence. At Salem Health, your skills, focus and dedication will make a real difference for every patient on the table.
What you'll do
- Prepare and maintain sterile fields, instruments, and equipment for a wide range of surgical procedures
- Anticipate surgeon needs and respond quickly and precisely during operations
- Perform surgical counts, manage specimens, and follow strict protocols for hand hygiene, time-outs and medication labeling
- Assist in room turnover and maintain accurate preference cards for efficient workflow
- Support surgeries in specialties including cardiac, neuro, ortho, general, urology, bariatrics and trauma
- Work with advanced technology including Da Vinci XI robotic systems and image-guided surgical tools
- Contribute to the care of diverse patient populations, from pediatric to geriatric
- Mentor peers and participate in continuous improvement efforts within the department
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team in a fast-paced, high-volume surgical environment
Total rewards package
Salem Health's comprehensive benefits package prioritizes your mental and physical health, financial stability, family obligations and professional growth.
- Relocation assistance available for qualified candidates
- Full comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Basic and voluntary life insurance
- Short and long-term disability
- Live Well Wellness Program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401(K) retirement plan with employer contributions.
- Generous paid time off (PTO) accrual and holiday pay
- Onsite fitness center with 24/7 badge access
- Education assistance program
- Public service loan forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer https://studentaid.gov/
- Food and drink discounts in the cafeteria.
- Impressive discounts offered by Nike, Adidas, Carhartt and others
Why Salem Health?
Salem Health is a Top Workplace in Oregon, known for fostering a supportive culture where your contributions truly matter. As an award-winning, independent health care system, we serve our region through Salem Hospital, multiple community clinics and West Valley Hospital, ensuring broad access to high-quality care.
We believe in empowering our teams. Through Lean principles, staff help drive innovation and solve real problems. We also invest in your growth with professional development, tuition assistance, and clear career pathways. At Salem Health, you’ll find more than a job, you’ll find purpose, connection and room to thrive.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status or condition protected by law.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact my.recruiter@salemhealth.org.
Background/experience
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) issued through the American Heart Association (AHA) and will follow any one of three paths:
Path I: Completion of an Accredited Educational Program
- Completion of a surgical technology educational program accredited by a national accreditation organization that is approved by the Oregon Health Authority; and
- Holds a current surgical technologist certification issued through the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA); or obtains surgical technologist certification through the NBSTSA within twelve months of program completion.
Path II: Completion of a US Military Surgical Technologist Training Program
- Provides documentation showing completion of a training program for surgical technologists in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard of the United States or in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; and demonstrates that sixteen hours of approved continuing education was completed every two years.
Path III: Experience
- Provides documentation demonstrating practice of surgical technology during at least two of the years between January 1, 2014, and January 1, 2017; and
- If experienced in the state of Oregon, must also demonstrate that sixteen hours of continuing education was completed every two years since 1/1/2017
