Job Description

Oversees sterile processing staff performing the processing, sterilization, and distribution of instruments and supplies, ensuring efficient and safe patient care. Essential Functions:

• Provides supervision for sterile processing staff and oversees the daily activities and scheduling of the team.
• Ensures adherence to safety standards and quality metrics for processing and providing sterilized instruments needed for patient care. Monitors compliance with sterilization policies and procedures and record keeping.
• Coordinates training and evaluation of instrument technicians. Serves as a resource and model, assisting as needed.
• Maintains Sterile Processing Microsystem (SPM) Instrument Tracking System files and reports and collaborates with healthcare professionals to ensure that sterile instruments and equipment are available when needed.
• Coordinates the repair of critical patient care items and instrumentation.
• Maintains assigned work areas and equipment in a clean, organized, and safe environment.

Education Requirement:

• High School Diploma or equivalent, required.
• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field, preferred.

Licensure Requirement:

(not specified)

Certifications:

Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST), preferred.

Skills:

Working knowledge of the standards of infection control.

Experience:

• Three years of instrument or case cart processing experience or operating room experience, preferred.
• Two years of supervisory or leadership experience, preferred.
• Experience as a sterile processing technician, preferred.

Physical Requirements:

OCCASIONALLY: Audible speech, Biohazard waste, Blood and/or Bodily Fluids, Chemicals/Medications, Color vision, Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens, Computer skills, Depth perception, Interpreting Data, Loud Noises, Problem solving, Reaching above shoulder, Sitting, Squat/kneel

FREQUENTLY: Bend/twist, Flexing/extending of neck, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Hearing acuity, Lifting / Carrying: 21-40 lbs, Machinery, Patient Equipment, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Pushing / Pulling: 26-40 lbs, Repetitive hand/arm use

CONTINUOUSLY: Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Lifting / Carrying: 11-20 lbs, Peripheral vision, Seeing – Far/near, Standing, Walking

Additional Physical Requirements performed but not listed above:

(not specified)

"The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individuals so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under their supervision. EOE M/F/Disability/Vet"