Sterile Processing Technician I

Job Summary

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Sterile Processing Technician I for their Florence Sterile Processing department. The position is full-time, 40 hours per week, second shift. Key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring all surgical and procedural supplies, instruments, and equipment are properly inventoried, decontaminated, assembled, inspected, packaged, sterilized, stored, and distributed.
• Respecting, dignifying, kind, and empathetic interactions with all patients, families, visitors, and other employees.

Job Description

The Sterile Processing Technician I will perform the following tasks:

• Decontamination: Collects soiled case carts, breaks down instruments and equipment, ensures carts are clean, disinfected, and functional, operates and troubleshoots cleaning equipment.
• Instrument Preparation: Recognizes over 2000 instruments and 500 trays, inspects for cleanliness and function, prepares instruments in various containers, monitors devices in each package.
• Sterilization / High-Level Disinfection: Selects appropriate sterilization methods, uses multiple monitoring systems, operates and maintains sterilizers, documents procedures accurately.
• Inventory Control and Distribution: Uses Epic OpTime system, responds to urgent requests, distributes and tracks supplies, communicates supply issues to manager.
• Quality Customer Service: Maintains documentation for biological, chemical controls, testing, and sterilization logs, demonstrates excellent customer service skills, participates in performance improvement activities.
• Financial Accountability: Demonstrates fiscal responsibility, assists with maintaining inventory within budget.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, candidates should have:

• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• Specialized knowledge of computer entry skills.

Benefits

St. Elizabeth Healthcare offers:

• Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within 30 days of hire.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules.
• Retirement savings with employer match.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.
• Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs.
• Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility.