STERILE PROC SHIFT SUPV

Responsibilities

• Serves as the lead technician of the shift for all instrumentation.
• Captures daily work assignments and prepares schedule for staff.
• Orients new employees to specific duties of particular shifts.
• Mentors and provides guidance and training as needed.
• Serves as backup in the absence of the department coordinator.
• Ensures that supervised staff are trained and evaluated.
• Decontaminates surgical instruments according to manufacturer’s instructions.
• Operates all decontamination equipment including washer disinfectors, ultrasonic cleaners, cart washer, and automatic endoscope reprocessor (AER).
• Inspects instruments after decontamination, ensuring all items are clean, intact, functional, and accounted for.
• Assembles trays in a manner that ensures devise sterility and is easy for the end user to access for use.
• Uses count sheets to ensure trays are assembled accurately.
• Interfaces with the instrument tracking system for all functions of processing.
• Packages or containerizes instrument sets according to manufacturer’s guidelines and Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) standards.
• Packages in a neat and proper technique ensuring easy aseptic opening in the operating room.
• Loads sterilizer carts in a way to ensure packaged items are not punctured or compromised, loads containers and wrapped goods as recommended.
• Affirms accurate input of daily sterilizer tests on all steam and low temperature sterilizers.
• Operates sterilizer according to manufacturer’s instruction ensuring load biological monitoring.
• Documents all load contents, interfaces load to tracking system, loads cycle confirming correct parameters, monitors sterilizer to tracking system information, records all pertinent information (biological, mechanical, and chemical).
• Performs quality control as needed.
• Unloads sterilizers, ensuring items are not compromised, and stores in correct location according to instrument tracking system storage locations.
• Prepares hospital requisitions as needed; monitors and communicates to management all items received from outside vendors.
• Answers phones and relays information with other employees and staff members.
• Inventories and orders par levels of instruments.
• Assists with maintaining departmental records and performs instrument and scope audits.
• Fulfills other duties as assigned.

  Qualifications

  • Minimum Education: None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
  • Licensure Requirement: IAHCSMM (International Association for Healthcare Material Management) as a Certified Registered Sterile Processing Technician (CRCST) or CBSPD (Certification Board for Sterile Processing Technicians) as a Certified Sterile Processing Distribution Technician (CSPDT) certification is required.