Certified Surgical Technologist (CST), Outpatient Surgery-Northeast, FT Days
Columbia, SCFull-timePosted 1w agoStill listed 2 days ago
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The Certified Surgical Technologist assists patients before, during, and after surgical procedures by performing scrub duties and related functions as part of the surgical team. The role prepares operating rooms and instruments, supports the surgical team during procedures, maintains aseptic technique, and helps ensure patient safety. It is a non-management position at Richland Hospital, with no previous experience required.
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Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
Job Summary Assists in care of patients of all ages before, during and after surgical procedures by performing scrub duties and related functions as a member of the surgical team on a novice to advanced beginner level completing identified job competencies. Maintains patient safety, privacy and confidentiality. Complies with legal aspects of patient care. Complies with sterilization standards and standards for handling sharps or contaminated instruments. Participates in quality improvement activities and completes hospital required education annually.
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Essential Functions
- All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's purpose: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
- Prepares for surgical procedures by collecting necessary supplies and instruments according to Surgeon Preference Card.
- Prepares the Operating Room for cases by opening sterile supplies, setting up table, arranging instruments and supplies according to type of case.
- Assists the surgical team during the operative procedure. Assists in maintaining correct count of instruments, needles and sponges. Identifies and cares for specimens. Handles drugs and solutions under direction of the RN.
- Cleans and prepares rooms between procedures and terminally clean at the end of the day. Returns unused supplies and instruments and extra equipment to proper storage.
- Maintains aseptic techniques; actively monitor situations which could lead to breaches in aseptic technique. Takes action to correct.
- Models Prisma Health behavior expectations. Assists with coaching, mentoring and training coworkers as assigned. Trains and assists with integration of new team members. Shares knowledge, ideas and expertise to support the team and the department.
- Completes annual age specific accountabilities.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Supervisory/Management Responsibilities
- This is a non-management job that will report to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.
Minimum Requirements
- Education - Successful completion of a Surgical Technology program or Surgical Technologist training in the U.S. Armed Forces.
- Experience - No previous experience required.
In Lieu Of
- In lieu of the education requirement only, must be current with mandatory 15 hours annually of ST continuing education AND either have been employed as a ST in South Carolina prior to Jan. 1, 2008, OR have completed a ST military training program.
- Team members employed in this job prior to July 1, 2020, without surgical tech certification that are grandfathered under state law are not required to obtain certification but are required to complete 15 hours annually of continuing ST education
Required Certifications, Registrations, Licenses
- CST (Certified Surgical Tech) with NBSTSA; or may accept TS-C (Tech in Surgery) from NCCT certification IF employed as a surgical tech in South Carolina prior to January 1, 2008, or has completed a surgical tech military training program.
- Maintains surgical technology certification
. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to complete 15 hours of mandatory ST education annually
Work Shift Day (United States of America)
Location Richland
Facility Richland Hospital
Department Operating Room
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,721 open Surgical Technologist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$65–97K/yr42 salary ranges
- US median$28–41/hr1,115 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 56 open Surgical Technologist jobs in South Carolina and 2,721 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in South Carolina
- Prisma Health (this employer)25 open
- AnMed Health10 open
- HCA Healthcare5 open
- Experience
- Surgical Technologist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,176 postings).
- Education
- 6 of the 2,721 open Surgical Technologist jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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