Sterile Processing Specialist I PT

About the role

Under direct supervision, this position cares, handles, and stores instruments, supplies, and equipment necessary for surgery and processed goods for redistribution throughout the Medical Center. The role assists Sterile Processing Specialists with various team lead duties.

Responsibilities

• Decontaminates, disassembles, inspects, and lubricates all instrumentation, scopes, and equipment according to hospital policy.
• Assembles and sterilizes instrument sets, endoscopes, treatment trays, and miscellaneous goods according to department standards.
• Operates, checks, cleans, and troubleshoots equipment. Performs chemical, mechanical, and biological monitoring.
• Accurately documents all required information on sterilization records.
• Accurately picks all supplies, instruments, and equipment according to the correct surgeon’s preference card for posted, add-on, and emergency cases.
• Accurately restocks specialty carts for nursing units according to pick sheet.
• Delivers supplies and case carts to the operating room in a timely fashion. Dispatches telephone calls for the operating room for urgent supply needs. Assists when necessary.
• Assists specialists with maintaining and updating par levels of all instrument sets, trays, and processed goods and troubleshoots problems.
• Maintains inventory of count sheets for instrument sets.
• Maintains cleanliness of unit in accordance with Infection Control standards.
• Able to identify process improvement opportunities and work to address process and workflow issues that impede availability of needed instrumentation and supplies.
• Maintains productivity, set utilization/location by utilizing the SPM System.
• Accurately stores all instrumentation and supplies and rotates stock according to policy and procedure.
• Maintains all specialty instrumentation equipment, loaner sets, and scopes.
• May stand in as lead in the absence of a Specialist II.
• Responsible for maintaining own individual record for proper completion/accrual of Continuing Education Credits (CEU’s) based on National expectations.
• Responsible for scheduling staff to complete mandatory net learning and unit-based competencies. Also maintains these records on the unit.

Qualifications

• Completion of Central Sterile Processing Program.
• High School or GED.
• Experience as a CS Technician or instrumentation experience.

Skills

• Advanced analytical ability to identify and perform minor repairs on instrumentation.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and stressful environment where incumbents need to be able to respond rapidly and efficiently to requests/needs of surgical team, as well as, to changes in the O.R. schedule and Nursing Units requests.
• Organizational skills.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$17.64 - $27.48 per hour

Schedule

Not specified.