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Job Summary:

SurgCenter of Palm Beach Gardens is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Surgical First Assistant to join our outpatient surgical team. The First Assistant will play a critical role in supporting surgeons during procedures, ensuring the highest standards of patient care, safety, and surgical excellence. This position is ideal for individuals passionate about perioperative care in a fast-paced ambulatory surgery center environment.

Required Skills

Key Responsibilities:

Assist surgeons during operative procedures by providing exposure, hemostasis, suturing, and other technical functions to support optimal patient outcomes.
Collaborate with the surgical team to ensure proper patient positioning, sterile field maintenance, and equipment readiness.
Anticipate the needs of the surgical team and respond promptly to intraoperative requirements.
Apply knowledge of surgical anatomy and procedures to ensure effective first assist functions.
Assist with preoperative preparations and postoperative patient care as directed.
Maintain strict adherence to infection control, sterile technique, and patient safety protocols.
Accurately document intraoperative activities, counts, and patient data as required.
Participate in quality assurance initiatives and contribute to continuous process improvements.

Qualifications:

Required:

Certified Surgical First Assistant (CSFA), Certified Surgical Assistant (CSA), or equivalent credential recognized in the state of Florida.
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification.
Minimum of 2 years of surgical first assisting experience, preferably in an outpatient or ASC setting.
Strong knowledge of surgical instruments, anatomy, and procedures.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Preferred:

Experience in orthopedics, ophthalmology, podiatry, ENT, and/or general surgery.
Prior experience in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) environment.
Familiarity with EMR and case documentation standards.

Required Experience

About Company

Strength in Numbers
United Surgical Partners International (USPI) and Tenet have combined forces to create the nation’s largest ambulatory surgery provider. Our combined network of exceptional surgical and imaging facilities includes approximately 20 imaging centers, and over 265 short-stay surgical facilities. Together, our partnerships include 50 health systems and more than 4,000 physicians.

Nationwide Experience
Our partners deliver high quality ambulatory solutions in safe, efficient and caring USPI facilities in communities of every size across 29 states. Our physician partners are focused on providing quality patient care, in part because they are invested in their USPI facility. We provide the infrastructure and support they need to perform their best. This is one of the advantages of partnering with USPI.

Quality Patient Services
We share a vision with our physician and health system partners. Our goal is to provide the quality of healthcare services we would insist upon for our own families. Since our founding in 1998, this goal has helped us grow exponentially. Today, our strategic joint venture with Tenet establishes USPI as one of the nation's leading providers of ambulatory solutions.

Operating Excellence
Our size and experience in developing and operating ambulatory facilities and strategic vision allow our facilities to achieve both high patient satisfaction and solid financial results. Moreover, because we engage physicians in the governance and growth of the facility, we also achieve excellent clinical outcomes.

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Location	Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Job Type	Full-time
Industry	Healthcare Services
Company Size	10,000 employees or more
Year Founded	1998
Website	http://www.uspi.com/

Surgeon Assistant (First Assistant)

United Surgical Partners International Inc (USPI)

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