Certified Sterile Processing Technician (CSPT)

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Processes decontaminated medical devices as they are received, according to established priorities, medical device IFU’s and best practices
• Receives instruments from the decontamination area and processes appropriately
• Performs physical and environmental duties as designated on a routine daily basis, including but not limited to cleaning workspace/instrument
• Clears room/cabinets, emptying biohazards waste, monitoring sterilizers, and checking environmental monitors
• Completes sterilization processes
• Performs high-level disinfection
• Performs other duties as assigned, including other essential instrument room duties

About the Role

Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus is Houston’s first community hospital designed, built and equipped exclusively for children in one of the city’s most rapidly growing communities in the area from Sugar Land to Bryan-College Station, Texas.

Located at I-10 and Barker Cypress, our 515,007-square-foot hospital houses the only 24/7 pediatric emergency room in the Greater West Houston area, four operating rooms, 16-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 46 acute care beds, advanced imaging services including MRI and CT scans, a neurophysiology sleep lab, a pathology lab and a full-scale pharmacy.

Qualifications

• Completion of all externship hours required for certification
• Knowledge of wide variety of instrumentation used in the operating room throughout the hospital
• Ability to operate all OR sterilization and processing equipment to prioritize and organize and to work independently
• PREFERRED EDUCATION: High School Diploma or GED
• LICENSE REQUIRED: (1) CRCST - Cert-Cert Reg Cent Ser TECH by The Healthcare Sterile Processing Association, ORCSPDT - Cert-Sterile Proc & Dist. Tech by the Certified Sterile Processing and Distribution Technician issued by The Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution