Overview
**Description**
**Anesthesia Technician @ Swedish First Hill**
**Full Time (40 Hour Week)**
**Day Shift**
**8 Hour Shifts**
**$5,000 Hiring Bonus and relocation for eligible external candidates who meet all conditions for payment – this is in addition to the fantastic benefits and compensation package offered by Providence Swedish that begin on your first day of employment. Join us, and find out how many ways we offer you the chance to focus on what really matters – our patients.**
This position is responsible for assisting the Anesthesiologist in all departments and with all anesthesia procedures, including expediting patient flow through the perioperative area, maintaining patient safety, developing and maintaining external (patient, surgeon) and internal (Anesthesiologist, staff) customer satisfaction. Responsible for set up, operation and some maintenance of specialized equipment, including life support.
Providence caregivers are not simply valued – they’re invaluable. Join our team at Swedish First Hill and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.
+ Arranges and prioritizes work assignments and schedule. Performs other planning tasks.
+ Assists with patient flow in perioperative area including transporting patients in and out of the surgical suite, maintaining accountability for specific patients and surgical suites, and assisting other Technicians in providing service to patients.
+ Preps patient for insertion of invasive lines. Sets up necessary procedure carts with aseptic technique. Sets up, calibrates and verifies function of anesthesia machines, invasive/non-invasive blood pressure monitors, ETCO2 and SPO2 monitors, autotransfusion equipment, etc.
+ Assists Anesthesiologists with procedures such as radial or femoral arterial lines, central lines, swan-ganz catheters and temporary pacer insertions. Also assists in setting up and preparing supplies for the physicians for spinal epidurals, regional blocks, intubations. Also assists Anesthesiologists with monitoring patient status. Performs CPR as needed.
+ Initiates monitoring of patients by attaching EKG electrodes connecting invasive/non-invasive blood pressure monitoring, as well as pulse oximetry and ETCO2.
+ Assists with positioning of patients for surgical procedures.
+ Responsible for maintaining patient airway, as necessary.
+ Sets up and operates Autotransfusion equipment, including Cell Saver.
+ Responsible for printing out hemo-dynamic data collection including pressure gradient recordings and cardiac outputs.
+ May be directed to draw a blood sample from an existing line and process blood gases, electrolytes, ACT’s and communicate results. May draw other blood specimens from existing lines as needed.
+ Responsible for troubleshooting anesthesia equipment problems and making minor repairs.
+ Assists with transport of all invasively monitored patients to the OR from ICU’s and Heart Center. Also transports invasive monitored patients from the OR to the ICU.
+ Responsible for responding to all codes in Surgery.
+ Participates in “call” rotation for continuous Perioperative Support Technologists (PST) at night, on weekends, and holidays. Perioperative Support Techs must be ready to participate in call schedule in nine months or less.
+ Assists with training and orientation of new Perioperative Support Techs.
+ Accepts room assignments, as requested by OR Director or designee.
+ Successful completion of an on the job Anesthesia Technology (AT) training program.
+ Assist at any other locations using anesthesia.
+ Recognizes age and size of patient as a relevant factor, and applies appropriate skills in preparation for anesthesia.
+ Able to order supplies for stock, clean and setup the anesthesia equipment, machines and carts in all areas of the medical center where anesthesia is administered.
+ If assigned to First Hill or Cherry Hill: Performs duties of Perioperative Support I, as assigned. Assist Anethesiologist with anesthesia procedures for all pediatric patients.
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Secondary education in a medical or science based discipline
+ Washington Medical Assistant Phlebotomist Certification within 90 days of hire
+ National Provider BLS – American Heart Association upon hire
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Graduate of an accredited program i.e. EMT, Paramedic, RT, or Anesthesia Technology (AT) program
+ ACLS Provider – American Heart Association
+ PALS Provider – American Heart Association
+ Anesthesia Tech certification through ASATT
+ 1 year experience working in a similar capacity in an Anesthesia Department in a tertiary healthcare facility
**Why Join Providence?**
Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our mission of improving the health and wellbeing of each patient we serve.
Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.
**About Providence**
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.
**About the Team**
Swedish is the largest not-for-profit health care system in the greater Seattle area. It is comprised of five hospital campuses (First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, Edmonds and Issaquah); emergency rooms and specialty centers in Redmond (East King County) and the Mill Creek area in Everett; and Swedish Medical Group, a network of more than 128 primary care and specialty care locations throughout the Puget Sound. Swedish, named a LinkedIn Top Company to grow your career, employs nearly 13,000 caregivers (all employees), including nearly 1,400 providers. Whether through physician clinics, education, research and innovation or other outreach, we’re committed to caring for the people in our region and beyond.
We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.
We are committed to cultural diversity and equal employment for all individuals. It is our policy to recruit, hire, promote, compensate, transfer, train, retain, terminate, and make all other employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin (including certain language use restrictions), ancestry, disability (mental and physical including HIV and AIDS), medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, age, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, and military and veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status. We will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified caregiver or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business.
We are a community where all people, regardless of differences, are welcome, secure, and valued. We value respect, appreciation, collaboration, diversity, and a shared commitment to serving our communities. We expect that all workforce members in our community will act in ways which reflect a commitment to and accountability for, racial and social justice and equality in the workplace. As such, we will maintain a workplace free of discrimination and harassment based on any applicable legally protected status. We also expect that all workforce members will maintain a positive workplace free from any unacceptable conduct which creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.
**Requsition ID:** 241657
**Company:** Swedish Jobs
**Job Category:** Surgical/Perioperative Services
**Job Function:** Clinical Care
**Job Schedule:** Full time
**Job Shift:** Day
**Career Track:** Clinical Support
**Department:** 3901 SFH ANESTHESIOLOGY
**Address:** WA Seattle 747 Broadway
**Work Location:** Swedish First Hill 747 Broadway-Seattle
**Pay Range:** $35.61 – $54.48
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.
Swedish Health Services is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Providence does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
