Certified Registered Central Service Tech

Job Summary

You will ensure patient safety and surgical efficiency by meticulously decontaminating, sterilizing, and assembling all medical instruments and equipment. Your precise work is fundamental to infection control and positive patient outcomes across clinical areas.

Responsibilities

• Meticulously decontaminating, sterilizing, and assembling all medical instruments and equipment.
• Maintaining accurate documentation, testing equipment, and managing inventory according to strict protocols.
• Adhering to infection control standards, troubleshooting equipment, and contributing to a safe, efficient sterile processing environment.
• Ensuring soiled instrumentation or equipment delivered to the department is decontaminated in a manner that prevents cross contamination.
• Ensuring equipment distributed from the Sterile Processing Department is in appropriate working order for utilization in direct patient care.
• Ensuring sterility is achieved utilizing the sterilization process either steam, and sterrad. Demonstrating when to use each process.
• Performing in the following areas of the surgical case setup process: Assembly/Packaging/Wrapping - Orthopedics; Assembly/Packaging/Wrapping - ENT/Plastic/Ophthalmology; Assembly/Packaging/Wrapping - General Surgery; Assembly/Packaging/Wrapping - GYN/GU/Cardiothoracic; Assembly/Packaging/Wrapping - Neuro/Vascular.

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of SPD experience in an acute care environment.
• Well versed in testing sterilization equipment.
• Certified and Registered Central Service Technician from HSPA preferred.
• Fire Safety, within 90 Days of hire.
• PREFERRED: High School Graduate or GED.
• Experience working in a trauma surgery hospital.

Benefits

Founded in 1887, Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center is a 318-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in downtown Los Angeles. The hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II trauma center, the Los Angeles Center for Womens Health, obstetrics and pediatric services, and comprehensive cardiac and surgical services. The hospital shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health, one of the nations five largest health care systems. Visit here here for more information.

Pay

$26.65 - $33.51 /hour