Sterile processing tech 1

Responsibilities

• Receives, cleans, decontaminates, and sterilizes reusable patient care equipment, instrumentation, and supplies.
• Disassembles, inspects, inventories, and assembles both surgical and house instrumentation as well as procedural trays.
• Maintains adequate inventory levels for all surgical/house instrumentation and supplies.
• Assembles surgical case carts as required.
• Records and maintains required sterilization records under the supervision of a CRCST or RCST.
• Cleans, decontaminates, assembles and sterilizes all reusable patient care equipment, in accordance with departmental policy and procedure, Infection Control standards and regulations.
• Operates all sterilization and decontamination equipment, in accordance with departmental policies and procedures safely and efficiently asking for resourcing as needed.
• Inspects, assembles and sterilizes all surgical and house instrumentation in accordance with departmental policy and procedure.
• Restocks accurately case carts with supplies, instrumentation and equipment as indicated by pick list generated from daily surgical schedule.
• Restocks accurately with unexpired products for Surgical Services including the Outpatient Services and Labor & Delivery supply carts, specialty carts and top track.
• Stages and delivers case carts, stocking carts, and equipment via clean cart lift as well as clean OR service elevator.
• Inventories and maintains adequate levels of all instrumentation and sterile supplies utilized.
• Reports and records missing and/or damaged instrumentation/equipment, in accordance with set policy and procedure.
• Serves as initial contact for all departmental inquiries from customers.
• Answers, records and responds to all requests via phone and/or in person in a courteous and professional manner.
• Phone requests are to be answered in accordance to WVU Medicine Behavioral Standards.
• Receives and returns unexpired items to inventory, in accordance with set policy and procedure.
• Maintains work areas in a clean, neat and orderly fashion on a daily basis.
• Cleans work area prior to end of shift in preparation for the oncoming shift.
• Attends regularly scheduled in-services.
• Participates in the cross training for new surgical instrumentation and equipment.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Must become registered within twelve (12) months initially from the date the Sterile Processing Tech receives their course materials to become certified.
• If transferring between Sterile Processing and Endoscopy before certification, employees must be certified within the twelve (12) months of the date they initially received their course materials.

Skills

• Understand and practice excellent personal hygiene.
• Able to operate computer program with training.
• Demonstrate English verbal and written proficiencies to utilize written high level disinfection/sterilization guidelines.

Schedule

Rotating holidays and weekends. Shift 11p to 7:30a. Scheduled Weekly Hours 40. Shift Night (United States of America).