Surgical First Assistant

Inova Fairfax Hospital Operating Room - Perioperative Surgical Assist Support is seeking a dedicated Surgical First Assistant to join the team. This role will be full-time Monday - Friday, day shift.

Inova is consistently ranked as a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and remote and hybrid career opportunities.

Surgical First Assistant Responsibilities:

• Provides safe therapeutic care by collaboration with surgeons and health care team in performing a safe operation with optimal outcomes for the patient.
• Advocates patient rights from the patient/family perspective: acts as a resource to resolve issues. Seeks validation of clinical decisions from others for complex patients or unfamiliar situations.
• Helps implement an individualized plan of care for the patient with complex needs to achieve desired outcomes.
• Share data with team and supports team with surgeons.
• Get procedure questions asked and helps to set up correct procedures. Make clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data, and observation in concert with the primary surgeon.
• Assists in moving and positioning the patient and inserting and removing Foley urinary bladder catheter.
• Responsible for placing a pneumatic tourniquet draping the patient within the surgeon's guidelines and maintaining integrity of sterile field.
• Provides retraction of tissue and organs for optimal visualization regarding tissue type and appropriate retraction instrument and /or technique.
• Assists in maintaining hemostasis by direct pressure, using and applying of appropriate surgical instrument for the task, placement or ties, placement of ligatures, applying chemical hemostatic agents, or other measures as directed by the surgeon. Uses the electrocautery mono and bi-polar at surgeons direction, clamping, ligation, and cutting of tissue per surgeons directive.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Completion of Surgical First Assistant program through an accredited organization; or Medical school graduate with surgical training; or completion of a surgical assistant training program during military service in the United States.
• Experience: One (1) year of experience as a Surgical First Assistant; or Two (2) years of Surgical Technologist experience.
• Licensure: Surgical Assistant in the state of VA.
• Certification: Basic Life Support (BLS) upon start.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Education: AAS in Surgical Assisting or Surgical Technologist.
• Experience: Robotic experience.
• Certification: National Surgical Assistant Certification issued by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA), or the National Commission for Certification of Surgical Assistants (NCCSA).