Supervisory Medical Supply Technician (Sterile Processing) - Assistant Chief

About the role

The Assistant Chief contributes to the oversight of all supervision, administrative management and direction of SPS. Oversees all decontamination, sterilization and disposition of facility critical and semi-critical RME.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the quality management system activities within Sterile Processing Services, to include training, competency assessment, development and enforcement of standard operating procedures
• Provides technical and direct supervision to over 20 Medical Supply Technicians at various levels
• Manages, directs and adapts work to accomplish program goals and objectives, and to meet new and changing program requirements
• Serves as liaison between SPS and other departments
• Assists Chief, SPS, in managing the SPS Equipment Inventory Listing (EIL) for equipment assigned to SPS such as sterilizers, washer/disinfector, ultrasonic, sealers through the nonexpendable property program for the assigned facility/system and requests replacement of all equipment under their purview as needed
• Serves as a member or in an advisory capacity on committees such as Commodity Standardization, Infection Control, Environment of Care, and Reusable Medical Equipment
• Issues, adapts, implements and maintains local SPS policies and procedures as applicable to specific facility/system programs
• Assists the Chief, SPS in developing, directing and maintaining a Quality Control Program ensuring product quality assurance through random sampling, biological monitoring, product assessment and other means, and providing specific reports as required
• Solicits assistance from, or responds to, inquiries from outside regulatory and advisory agencies to ensure compliance with established policies and procedures from organizations
• Responsible for facilitating training of various aspects of SPS, including reprocessing and inventory management
• Conducts departmental orientation, training, skills review and assists with educational programs to maintain high staff quality performance standards
• Identifies and promotes staff development
• Coordinates and integration of production requirements to meet needs of customers, both scheduled and non-scheduled
• Assists Chief, SPS in preparing and evaluating future scheduling projects, anticipating future workload requirements to forecast appropriate staffing levels
• Works closely with Supply Chain Management to monitor inventory levels to identify and take corrective action on matters relating to potential inventory shortages created because of additional case volume
• Oversees appropriate reprocessing of reusable medical equipment (RME) to eliminate risk of infection and to provide timely safe patient care in all patient care areas
• Assists in developing policies and procedures that meet the infection prevention standards set by JC,