Sterile Processing Tech 1

About the role

This position involves receiving, cleaning, decontaminating, and sterilizing reusable patient care equipment, instrumentation, and supplies. It also includes disassembling, inspecting, assembling, and sterilizing surgical and house instrumentation, as well as restocking case carts and maintaining inventory levels.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Physical Requirements

• Physically capable of prolonged periods of standing and walking.
• Capable of lifting up to 60 pounds and pushing loaded carts weighing in excess of 200 pounds.
• Possess visual/oral acuity along with manual dexterity and technical ability.
• Able to discern and distinguish colors.

Qualifications

• 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 and Abilities

• 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.

Additional Job Description

• Rotating weekends and Holidays Scheduled Weekly Hours 40 Shift Day (United States of America)
• Exempt/Non-Exempt United States of America (Non-Exempt)
• Company WVUH West Virginia University Hospitals Cost Center 615 WVUH Sterile Processing
• Address 1 Medical Center Drive Morgantown West Virginia
• Equal Opportunity Employer West Virginia University Health System and its subsidiaries (collectively "WVUHS") is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.