Associate Director Sterile Processing

About the role

Help change health care; help change the world. Make real change in health care with the freedom to innovate and highly trained staff to execute your vision. Apply today to join the Banner Health leadership team. North Colorado Medical Center has been a leader in providing the latest health care facilities, technology and service to Weld County, northern Colorado and our surrounding multi-state region for more than 100 years. Banner North Colorado Medical Center is seeking a detail-oriented and outcomes-driven leader to serve as Associate Director of Sterile Processing.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the daily operations of the Sterile Processing Department, leading a dedicated team of certified sterile processing technicians in instrument tray assembly, case cart management, equipment sterilization, and supply coordination.
• Accountable for quality standards, staff development, and ensuring that physicians have the sterile instruments and supplies needed for every surgical procedure.
• Hold themselves and their team to the highest level of accuracy and compliance; understand the critical importance of sterile processing; committed to elevating expectations, building accountability, and driving continuous improvement.
• Financial oversight, vendor management, equipment replacement projects, and collaborative partnership with Perioperative Services.
• Provide effective direction, management, and operation of all functions of the Central Sterile Processing department in maintaining a clean, sterile, and safe surgical instrument management.
• Lead the development, analysis, preparation and implementation of strategic financial and operational plans to achieve overall system and entity strategic goals and objectives supporting PeriOp, Hospital Departments, and supported clinics.
• Provide analytical support for both financial and operational goals, including analyzing processes and identifying opportunities for improvements in operational practices and procedures.
• Design, implement and support the adoption of new processes that are both financial and operational in nature to increase efficiency and compliance with Infection Prevention and Regulatory requirements while maintaining the highest level of quality.
• Ensure the proper guidelines, standards, and protocols governing the use of decontamination equipment, chemicals, and multiple methods of sterilization are enforced to meet the PeriOp surgical procedures, hospital departments, and clinics demands.
• Play a key role in management of all surgical instrumentation, sterile disposable case cart supply inventories, and processing equipment for both the decontamination and sterilization.
• Responsible for the daily management of multiple exempt and non‑ex