Certified Surgical Technologist
Boston, Massachusetts
Tufts Medical Center

OR CST

Overview

• Level 1 Trauma Facility near Boston, MA, seeking travel OR Surgical Techs
• Academic facility
• OR has 23 rooms, with 50-70 total cases per day; the OR is very busy
• Manager auto-offers; please prep the traveler

Contract and Schedule

• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Shift: Days, 12 hours per day, 36 hours per week
• Travelers work 12-hour weekend shifts in rotation with other staff, and may also work 8-hour weekday shifts in rotation
• Weekday shifts may be evenings or nights

Required Qualifications

• Must have Level 1 trauma center experience
• BLS certification
• Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) via NBSTSA certificate
• Massachusetts requirements for surgical techs (meet one option):

  • Option 1: Graduated from a nationally accredited surgical technology program AND hold and maintain an active surgical technologist certification from NBSTSA
  • Option 2: Graduated from a nationally accredited surgical technology program AND hold and maintain an active surgical technologist certification from NCCT (verify program accreditation through CAAHEP online verification)
  • Option 3: Completed a military surgical technology program
  • Option 4: Was employed as a surgical technician on or before 7/1/2013
• Must have a wide range of skills: general, lap, robot, ortho, neuro, etc.
• Weekend rotation and call (at manager's discretion)

Preferred

• Travel experience
• Eyes/ENT experience

Case Types

• Ortho, neuro, general
• Trauma cases

Call Expectations

• Travelers take the same amount of call as permanent staff and are assigned a call center
• Call in the neuro/ortho area: 3 weekdays per month (evenings or nights), plus weekend shifts. 10 staff per month take 2 weekend shifts and the rest take 1; the 2-shift staff rotate monthly and are posted each month.
• Call in one call center: 3 weekdays per month (evenings or nights), plus weekend shifts. 4 staff per month take 2 weekend shifts and the rest take 1; the 2-shift staff rotate monthly and are posted each month.
• Circulator call staff in one call center may be used to circulate cardiac cases; in the other, to circulate eye cases.
• Call starts at the end of shifts ending at 3:30 PM or 5:30 PM. Call hours past 5:30 PM must be covered by another call person. Unfilled spots are assigned the same way as all other open call.
• RNs may sign up for tech call spots. If a tech cannot meet their call requirement because too many RNs are in tech spots, they may bump an RN to meet it.

Housing

• Housing leads are available upon request (at additional cost). Travelers are asked to explore the housing market after submission.