Job description
Surgical Tech - Operating Room
Start Date: 11-09-2026
End Date: 02-08-2027
Contract Type: Travel Contract
Hours per Week: 40
Candidate Pay Rate: $45.50 per hour
About United Health Care Staffing
At United Health Care Staffing (UHC Staffing), we believe healthcare staffing should be more than just finding a job. We are here to connect amazing professionals with opportunities that make their careers exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. With us, you're not just signing up for a contract you are joining a team that's got your back, answers your calls, and maybe even cracks a joke or two to brighten your day. Think of us as the travel buddy who handles the logistics while you focus on what you do best helping people heal.
Education
- Charting System: Cerner
- Unit Notes: - Unit: OR
- # beds: 4 beds in main OR and 8 beds in the pavilion
- Certs: BLS
- Ratios: 1:1 (nurses circulate--if can scrub that is a plus but not required)
- EMR: Cerner Surginet
- Charge Nurse: Yes--does not take patients/cases
- Scrub techs: do use
- Weekend Requirement: not required
- Holidays: covered by call
- Scrub Color: Provided by hospital
- Call: 1 shift per week, every 4th weekend
- Shifts: variable starts 6am-9am w/call
- no evenings, no weekends
- Floating: Not required
- Floor specific orientation: 1 week of paperwork orientation and one week partnered up with a preceptor
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: Main OR-Mostly ortho cases such as all totals (hips, knees, joints)
- Pavilion-neuro and ortho spine, CV cases (specific team works these), general, gynecology, urology, ENT
- Additional Notes: 15-25 cases per day
- 400 per month
- 20-25% of cases are inpatient
- only do CV cases or robotic cases if experience with these
- must have at least 2 years OR experience
- very particular processes in the OR suites here
- really prefer nurses w/ Cerner Surginet experience
- anesthesia all done by anesthesiologists (no CRNAs)
- critical patients go directly to ICU from the OR (Prefer 26 week contracts)
- Years of Experience: 2
- Shift Notes: 10 or 12 hour options available, Varied Days
- Specialty: OR Tech
- Start Date: 2026-11-09
- End Date: 2027-02-08
- Created Date: 2026-10-09
- Required Hours/Week: 40
- Start Time: 06:00
- End Time: 09:00
- Positions: 3
- Short Description: Surgical Tech
- Contract Type:
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Ready to start your next adventure as a Surgical Tech - Operating Room? Let's get you moving forward!
Send your resume to [email protected] or call us at 408-441-9200 today.
Why UHCS
Weekly or bi-weekly pay, medical/dental/vision, a SIMPLE IRA with employer contribution, tests paid on qualifying assignments with payroll deduction available, and one recruiter who stays with you for the whole assignment — reachable after hours. Every placement is credentialed to Joint Commission standards, so your packet is accepted the first time.