Certified Surgical First Assist

Certified Surgical First Assist – Lutheran Health Network

We are looking for a skilled Certified Surgical First Assistant to join our surgical team. This full‑time position (40 hours a week, 6:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., 4‑day, 10‑hour shifts) requires a dedicated professional who can support surgeons in a wide variety of procedures.

Sign‑On Bonus: up to $25,000
Relocation Assistance: available

• Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• 401(k) with matching
• Student Loan Repayment: up to $10,000
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package

• 30‑minute call response time

The Surgical Technician First Assistant provides direct support to surgeons during surgical procedures, ensuring efficient operative and invasive procedures by maintaining the sterile field, providing necessary instruments and supplies, and assisting in critical surgical tasks. This role requires advanced technical skills, including positioning patients, retracting tissues, controlling bleeding, suturing, and applying dressings, and collaborates with surgeons, nurses, and other surgical team members to ensure optimal patient outcomes and post‑operative care.

• Acts as a scrub person, preparing and organizing sterile supplies and instruments.
• Performs first‑assistant duties: providing exposure through instrument handling, retractors, suctioning, and sponging techniques.
• Handles and dissects tissues, clamps blood vessels, coagulates bleeding points, and places drains as instructed.
• Assists with wound closure: suturing subcutaneous layers and skin, applying staples, and dressing surgical sites per surgeon instructions.
• Ensures sterility and safety standards, conducts proper counting procedures with the RN circulator, follows infection control protocols, and takes corrective actions if needed.
• Prepares and transports surgical instruments for decontamination, ensuring proper handling and sterilization for future use.
• Assists in post‑procedure room turnover, ensuring procedural areas are properly cleaned and prepared for subsequent surgeries.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

• 1–3 years of experience as a Surgical Technician or First Assistant in an acute care setting.

• CST – Certified Surgical Technologist (required)
• Certified Surgical First Assistant (CSFA) through NBSTSA (required) or
• Certified Surgical Assistant (CSA) through NSAA (required)
• BCLS – Basic Life Support (required)
• ACLS – Advanced Cardiac Life Support (preferred)