Sterile Processing Technician

Position Summary

This position demonstrates accountability for operating room readiness ensuring sterile surgical instrumentation and disposable supplies are complete and ready for a procedure prior to the preceding patient leaving the operating room. Responsible for the proper care and handling of all general and specialty instrumentation including the cleaning, decontamination, disassemble/reassemble, quality assurance, instrument identification, set assembly, packaging, sterilization, and distribution of surgical instrumentation for PeriOp Services, hospital departments, and clinics.

Core Functions

• Provides decontamination and sterile processing support to PeriOp Services, ED, ICU, hospital wide departments, clinics both on and off campus, and ambulatory surgery centers.
• Provides various levels of service for the management of sterile surgical instrumentation and disposable patient care supplies.
• Maintains required sterilization logs and quality assurance records relating to all equipment associated for the purpose of decontamination, HLD disinfection, and sterilization.
• Able to interpret the surgical schedule and medical terminology as it pertains to scheduled procedures requiring sterile surgical instrumentation and disposable supplies needed.
• Able to address and communicate special needs to minimize delays to surgery.
• Responds to emergent calls from the Operating Room and performs preliminary investigation.
• Determines priority level of instrumentation requests and other hospital needs.
• Directs services in a competent and professional manner while assuring OR priorities are completed in a timely manner.
• Able to differentiate surgical instrumentation that is surgery owned, consignment/loaner, hospital depart, surgeon, ambulatory surgery center, and clinics both on and off campus.
• Completes necessary tracking of surgical instruments with a paper log sheet or computer process for instrumentation leaving the area.
• Reports needed replacement of surgical instruments to maintain the inventory and support readiness of sets.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma/GED or equivalent working knowledge.
• Mechanical aptitude with the ability to break down moving parts, clean, lubricate and reassemble, problem solve incomplete trays and missing instrumentation.
• Effective organizational, communication and human relation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Complete national certification as an SPD Technician within one year of hire.

Additional Related Education And/or Experience

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