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Surgical Technologist Training

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Looking to get into healthcare? Want to get paid while you learn? Here’s a great training opportunity that provides access to a career in healthcare.

Intermountain Health offers a full-time, paid Apprenticeship training program to become a Surgical Technologist within our operating rooms. During the program, Apprentices are full-time Intermountain employees, known as caregivers. This 'earn and learn' opportunity is available to current employees and non-employees.

We offer two programs:

  1. Intermountain Health Surgical Technology Apprenticeship Program
    Taught at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City and remotely at selected Intermountain hospital sites.
  2. Intermountain Health/Salt Lake Community College Apprenticeship Program
    Taught at West Jordan SLCC Campus).
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Intermountain Health Surgical Technology Program at LDS Hospital

Program is offered at LDS Hospital and remotely at selected Intermountain hospital sites.

  • Upon completion of the 10-month program, you will be qualified to work in our ORs and become a Technologist in Surgery-Certified.
  • This program option will teach and train the individual to learn how to pass a national certification test called a Technologist in Surgery-Certified (TS-C NCCT)
  • Employees will be selected to work at hospitals with the greatest vacancies to fill staffing shortages. Candidates will be made aware of which hospitals will be hiring.
  • Classes will be held at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah and remotely at selected hospital sites (See application for a list of participating remote sites). Clinical rotations will be offered at the hospital where you will be working after graduation.
  • During the program, apprentices will be full-time Intermountain Health employees, working 36 hours per week (6 + months).  Externship (training in the OR) will increase to 40 hours per week (3 + months) (See website link below for details).

  • The purpose of this program is to fill surgical tech vacancies at the hospitals that have the greatest vacancy needs.
  • Candidates who apply for the job will be asked (surveyed) to identify which high-need hospitals they are willing to work after graduation.
  • The list of high-need hospitals will be listed in the application form.  The list is subject to change and will be sent to those who apply for a job.
  • Candidates who are offered a position will be assigned and hired to work at a specific hospital.  The commitment for participating in this program is to work full-time for 1 year (2080 hours) at an Intermountain Health hospital after graduation.
  • If you cannot or will not work at any of our high-need hospitals, we ask that you withdraw your candidacy.
  • If you want to work at facilities that aren't listed, we encourage you to apply at one of the local community colleges or technical schools to obtain training and come back and apply for a job with Intermountain afterward.

  • You will be paid on-the-job for classwork & clinical externship rotations
  • Tuition & course fees are paid by Intermountain
  • Job placement upon successful program completion
  • Full-time pay (includes benefits) for 36 hours/week for 6 months (class/lab). Compensation increases at mid-point of class.
  • Ongoing mentorship throughout the program

See the application form for deadlines and when the next class will start. Refer to this for any date changes.

Go to this application page to learn more details about the program and to provide us your contact information that are you are interested.

Providing your contact information is not applying for the job. Those who provide their contact information will be emailed when the job application is open.

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Intermountain/Salt Lake Community College Employer-Sponsored Surgical Technologist Apprenticeship Program

Offered in partnership with Salt Lake Community College, and taught at West Jordan SLCC campus.

Intermountain Health has partnered with the Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) Surgical Technology program to create an apprenticeship program that tightens connections between training and the workplace.  Intermountain Health offers students full-time employment with benefits and paid tuition for the 1-year surgical technology program.  Intermountain will also pay for the student's national certification test.

Students that have completed SLCC’s prerequisite classes and steps may apply for a job with Intermountain Health.

Students who are hired to the program will require full-time attendance as a student at SLCC’s Surgical Technology Program in West Jordan, Utah and be required routine check-ins with a supervisor from Intermountain Health.  During the school year, the apprentices will work in our hospital’s surgical services areas for short shifts (before classes/labs) to observe and learn and key on-the-job skills that support surgery.

The apprentices will complete their externship requirements in an Intermountain Health facility.

Upon completion of the 12-month program, you will obtain an Associate of Applied Science degree and will be trained to how to pass a national certification test from the Association of Surgical Technologists.

Surgical Technologist apprentice graduates will be qualified to work in our operating rooms and be expected to apply for full-time job at one of our hospitals with job openings that has vacancies.  The commitment for participating in this program is to work full-time for 1 year (2080 hours) at an Intermountain Health hospital.

The purpose of this program is to fill surgical tech vacancies at the hospitals that have the greatest vacancy needs.

Candidates who apply for the job will be asked (surveyed) to identify which high-need hospitals they are willing to work after graduation.

Once the student has completed schooling, they will apply for a job at an Intermountain Health hospital that has vacancies.  

  • You will be paid on-the-job for classwork & clinical externship rotations
  • Full-time pay (Includes benefits) for 36 hours/week for 6 months (Class/lab).  Full-time pay for 40 hours/week for 3 months (Externship).  Compensation increases at mid-point of class (See application page for details).
  • Ongoing mentorship throughout the program
  • Tuition & course fees are paid by Intermountain
  • Job placement upon successful program completion

For additional program details & steps to prepare to apply for this job:

  1. Visit the application page to learn more details about our program and to provide your contact information to Intermountain Health:
    • Providing your contact information is not applying for the job.
    • Those who provide their contact information will be emailed when the job application is open.
  2. Complete SLCC's application steps
  3. Notify David Kay at david.kay@imail.org that you have: 1) Contacted SLCC’s academic advisor, 2), Enrolled, and 3) Have completed or are actively working on completing SLCC's prerequisite classes/requirements.
  4. Complete Salt Lake Community College's Surgical Technology program's prerequisite courses. See the link for the required classwork:
  5. Apply for the Surgical Technology/Employer Sponsored Apprenticeship class through the SLCC admissions page.
    • This program is called the Surgical Technology/Employer Sponsored Apprenticeship and is not their “College program” or “High School program”.
    • To be eligible to apply for apprenticeship job, you must complete all the prerequisite classes by the end of the SLCC Spring (May) period.
    • For more information (application period and deadlines) and link to apply, visit SLCC's health sciences admission page.
  6. Notify Intermountain Health informed when you have completed all SLCC Surgical Technology Program’s requirements
    • Email David Kay at david.kay@imail.org
    • Intermountain Health will contact SLCC to verify that you have completed all the steps and are eligible for their program.
  7. Eligible candidates will be sent an Intermountain Health job application to formally apply and interview for the Surgical Technologist Apprenticeship job.

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