Lead Sterile Processing Tech Fulltime Rotate

Are you a results-driven leader ready to make a meaningful impact to patients, caregivers, and your community? At John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, we’re seeking an innovative and experienced healthcare leader to drive excellence and inspire our team towards exceptional patient outcomes and operational success.

About Us

At John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, we understand that our greatest asset is our dedicated team of professionals. Desert Care Network serves the healthcare needs of the Coachella Valley and Morongo Basin regions in Southern California with three hospitals: Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, JFK Memorial Hospital in Indio, and Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree. The hospital network provides advanced care with services such as comprehensive stroke care, a cancer center, a Level 1 Trauma Center, and the only Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the Coachella Valley.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily operations and maximize staff efficiency.
• Monitor staff productivity and performance, serving as a role model and resource to staff, other departments, vendors, and physicians.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the step-by-step process for instrument sterilization.
• Display dexterity in the handling of all instrumentation.
• Anticipate instrumentation/equipment required on a daily basis as well as what is needed for the next day's cases.
• Utilize and understand clean and aseptic technique.
• Maintain and coordinate repairs on all equipment not in use (e.g., IV pumps, Gomco suctions, PCA pumps, sequential pressure stockings, and K-thermia warming blankets).
• Maintain instrumentation by proper cleaning, care utilization, and sterilization as required.
• Ensure efficient and consistent instrumentation/equipment turnover for "to follow" cases within appropriate time frames.
• Make recommendations to Charge Nurse/Director for procurement and maintenance of equipment.
• Monitor the proper functioning of the Autoclave (sterilizer), ensuring required temperature is reached, full cycle is completed, and test indicator is present.
• Thoroughly clean all instruments prior to sterilization to assure no debris is left on instruments.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify malfunctioning sterilizers through interpretation of test results.
• Assemble a wide variety of instrument sets ensuring accuracy, including listing missing instruments and signing the instrument set list according to protocol.
• Assemble instruments and place them on appropriate trays.
• Decontaminate, assemble, and wrap instruments and trays for sterilization.
• Maintain hospital educational and compliance requirements annually.
• Accurately perform quality control checks on instruments and equipment.
• Perform duties with an awareness of cost containment.
• Demonstrate professional maturity in all interactions.
• Take initiative to recognize and report appropriate areas of concern.
• Organize, plan, and set priorities to complete assignments with minimal assistance and within designated work hours.
• Serve as a role model and resource for new staff in the department.

Requirements

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks independently.
• Work cooperatively with a wide variety of team members.
• Sterile Processing Certification within six months of hire.

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive benefit package that prioritizes your health, professional development, and work-life balance. The available plans and programs include:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match.
• Generous paid time off.
• Career development and continuing education opportunities.
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Employee discount program.
• Voluntary benefits including pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long-term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance.

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status.

Pay

$25.00 hourly. Individual wages are determined based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications and experience.

Schedule

• Shift: Rotating
• Job type: Full Time