Sterile Processing Tech III - Full Time - Evening

Full Time

Evening

2:45 - 11:15pm

Monday - Friday

Occasional weekend and holiday rotation

York Hospital

Certification and previous experience required

Job Description:

Under the general supervision of the Supervisor-Central Sterile Processing, collaborates with supervisor and Operating Room service line RN Coordinators to provide resources and services for service specific instrumentation, supplies and equipment, coordinating and implementing surgical instrument processing according to the workflow of each specialty. Processes supplies and equipment, performs cleaning and sterilization duties and prepares instrument sets, supplies, loaner and consigned instruments in the Central Sterile Processing area. Maintains recommended standards for set assembly, decontamination, inspection, containerizing and sterilization of surgical instruments. Performs sterilization, assembly and storage of medical supplies and equipment. Collaborates with the Perioperative Nursing staff to provide sterile instrument sets, equipment and case carts in an accurate and timely manner. Performs a variety of lead technician functions such as, acting as a liaison between sterile processing staff members, supervisors and the operating room RN Specialty Coordinator(s), serving as the specialty resource, participating in performance improvement (PI) initiatives, trouble shooting daily operational issues impeding workflow of the specialty, orientation of specialty team members and other duties as assigned. Assists in maintaining consistent and continuous workflow, providing superior customer service.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Assembles all specialty service instrumentation as priority, maintaining specialty instrument inventory of sets and instrumentation.
2. Maintains instruments for service-specific specialties; collaborates with the CSP Supervisor and the O.R Service Line RN Coordinators (e.g. Open Heart, Neuro, Ortho, Thoracic, Vascular, GYN, GU, ENT, Eye, Dental, General, etc.)
3. Communicates with materials management via the Central Sterile Processing management team for procurement of instrumentation specific to assigned service.
4. Coordinates with supervisor in order to maintain instrument sharpening/repair schedule for assigned service line instrumentation.
5. Decontaminates instruments, supplies and equipment according to established policies and procedures.
6. Cleans, assembles, wraps, containerizes, sterilizes and stores supplies and instrument trays.
7. Sterilizes instruments, equipment and supplies as required; handles and stores instruments, equipment and supplies appropriately.
8. Performs biological and chemical monitoring in accordance with quality assurance standards.
9. Reviews the daily surgical schedule with CSP supervisor and obtains instruments, supplies and equipment for scheduled and emergent procedures.
10. Assembles case carts; places instrument sets and supplies appropriately for each procedure cart.
11. Operates and maintains washers/sterilizers, ultrasonic machine, steam and Sterrad sterilizers, heat sealers and additional equipment and machinery as needed. Performs/assigns daily cleaning of equipment and machines.
12. Maintains the Biological Monitoring System/Records of instrument processing and IUS Sterilizers used in the perioperative setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum Experience:
  • 2 years’ experience as a Certified Central Sterile Processing Technician
• Minimum Education:
  • High School or G.E.D.
• Required Certification:
  • CRCST or CSPDT
  • Other Cert/Registration CER or CFER certification in addition to required CRCST or CSPDT preferred
• Preferred Certification:
  • BLS Certification
• Physical Demands:
  • Moderate physical effort (lift/carry 11 to 40 lbs)
  • Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing/walking
  • Lifts supplies/equipment
• Skills:
  • Excellent oral, written and computer skills; Proficiency in transporting and disposing of hazardous materials per hospital policy; Must have developed analytical decision making abilities; Must be capable of working in team environment with staff of varying backgrounds; Must also be able to work with Perioperative Nursing staff to coordinate processing of instrument sets to accommodate the daily O.R. case load