Sterile Processing Technician Intern

About Us

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

Sterile Processing Technician Intern

Performs and participates in decontamination, cleaning, assembling, packaging, scanning, sterilization, storage and distribution of reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment.

• Decontaminates and sterilizes instruments, medical supplies and equipment, and assembles, wraps and sterilizes trays of instruments.
• Follows proper standard precautions while in decontamination and sterilization areas.
• Maintains inventory, collects and distributes instruments, trays, crash carts, and facility medical equipment.
• Restocks, labels, and maintains inventory, performs environmental maintenance duties and assists in maintaining inventory levels in sterile processing, the operating room.
• Verifies that equipment functions properly, assists with requisitions for equipment maintenance, repair or replacement, and removes defective equipment.
• Assists with maintaining established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, and quality improvement, safety, and environmental and infection control standards.
• Demonstrates organizational skills and appropriately prioritizes assigned work responsibilities.
• Assists in maintaining a safe and orderly work environment, adhering to established policies.
• Respects patients’ rights by providing privacy and confidentiality of information.

Under the direct supervision of a preceptor, the extern will perform the following functions:

• Sorts mismatched sets of instruments, trays, and medical equipment and makes them available to sterile processing customers in a timely manner.
• Upon successful validation of core competencies, the extern will be allowed to function with indirect supervision.
• Assists with maintaining established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, and quality improvement, safety, and environmental and infection control standards.
• Assists in maintaining a safe and orderly work environment, adhering to established policies.
• Respects patients’ rights by providing privacy and confidentiality of information.
• Performs other related duties as required and directed.

Required:

• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• Enrollment in approved sterile processing course.
• Enrollment in approved sterile processing course, and certification eligible as a sterile processing technician by the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD) or the International Association of Central Service Material Management (IACSMM).

Equal Opportunity Employer

Equal opportunity employer of minorities/females/disabled/veterans.