Central Sterile Processing Tech - Full-time - AVALA Hospital - RH463

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Decontaminates and sterilizes instruments, medical supplies and equipment, and assembles wraps and sterilizes trays of instruments.
• Follows proper Standard Precautions while in decontamination and sterilization areas.
• Sorts mismatched sets of instruments, trays, and medical equipment and makes them available to sterile processing customers in a timely manner.
• Accurately records and maintains sterilizer test results. Performs biological and chemical control functions of sterilization equipment per protocol.
• Restocks, labels, and maintains inventory, submits requisitions, collects and distributes instruments, trays, and equipment.
• Verifies that equipment functions properly, troubleshoots equipment malfunction, requisitions for equipment maintenance, repair or replacement, and removes and identifies defective equipment.
• Maintains a clean work area.
• Assists with maintaining established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, and quality improvement, safety, and environmental and infection control standards.

Core Competencies

• Action Orientation
• Communications
• Creativity/Innovation
• Critical Judgment
• Customer Orientation
• Interpersonal Skills
• Leadership
• Teamwork

Professional Requirements

• Meets dress code standards and adheres to policy in the Operating Room.
• Completes annual education requirements.
• Maintains regulatory requirements.
• Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
• Reports to work on time and as scheduled, completes work within designated time.
• Wears identification while on duty, uses computerized punch time system correctly.
• Completes in-services and returns in a timely fashion.
• Attends annual review and department in-services, as scheduled.
• Attends monthly staff meetings or reads meeting minutes.
• Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner.
• Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities.
• Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices.
• Communicates the mission, ethics and goals of the hospital, as well as the focus statement of the department.
• Promotes professional growth of subordinates by sharing knowledge and/or directing them to sources if information appropriate to given situation. Utilizes journals, books, etc. to learn and/or improve new techniques and equipment.

Regulatory Requirements

• A high school diploma or GED equivalent
• Minimum 2 years' experience in central processing preferred
• Current CRCST Certification preferred
• Knowledge of central processing/sterilization/instrumentation
• Current BCLS certification recommended

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer knowledge.