Sterile Processing Coordinator

About the role

The Sterile Processing Coordinator coordinates and assigns processing services efficiently, ensuring timely decontamination and reprocessing of instruments and supplies. They serve as a role model and mentor, facilitating teamwork with the OR staff and maintaining consistent workflow.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary resource for staff in all areas of service performed by the department.
• Communicates actively and positively with interprofessional health care team members, coaches staff in effective communication, and collaborates with management for improvement of employee engagement scores.
• Coordinates daily interface between sterile processing, surgery, and materials management, preparing items in advance for OR needs.
• Monitors staffing levels, regulates scheduling, and provides daily reporting to management.
• Serves as the primary quality assurance resource, reviews and revises policies and procedures, and ensures the effectiveness of the sterilization process.
• Maintains accurate tracking of instrumentation and monitors all sterilizer parameters.
• Collaborates with Materials Management to identify and order non-sterile items in need of processing.
• Identifies opportunities for practice changes and supports change initiatives, providing coaching and oversight for new employee preceptorships.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent education.
• Six years of Sterile Processing experience in an acute care hospital.
• Required Sterile Processing certification: CSCST or CSPDT.
• Required Instrument Specialist certification: CIS or CSIS.

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrates skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job.
• Speaks, reads, and writes English proficiently.
• Effective communication with patients, physicians, family members, and co-workers.
• Advanced knowledge of infection control, decontamination, and sterilization techniques.
• Proficiency in operating and troubleshooting departmental equipment.
• Uses basic computer programs such as Microsoft Office.
• Utilizes all departmental equipment according to manufacturer’s instructions and departmental policies.
• Completes departmental and institutional competencies within required timelines.
• Maintains patient and family privacy.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent education.
• Six years of Sterile Processing experience in an acute care hospital.
• Required Sterile Processing certification: CSCST or CSPDT.
• Required Instrument Specialist certification: CIS or CSIS.

Benefits

No specific benefits mentioned in the job posting.

Pay

Details about pay are not provided in the job posting.

Schedule

The job shift is Evening.