Sterile Processing Technician Lead

Sterile Processing Technician Lead

Requirements

• Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) certification issued by the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA)
• Sterile Processing and Distribution Technician (CSPDT) certification issued by the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc. (CBSPD)
• Flexible Endoscope Reprocessor (CFER) certification issued by the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc (CBSPD)
• High School Graduate
• Typically requires 3 years of experience in sterile processing
• Must have thorough knowledge of sterilization principles and requirements, inventory and asset management, and quality assurance activities
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills necessary
• Ability to function in a stressful and fast paced environment

Responsibilities

• Acts as a resource to employees, which includes training/orienting, providing day-to-day work direction, and giving input on performance
• Assists with human resource responsibilities, which may include: interviewing and selection of new employees, orientation, staff development, providing performance feedback, resolution of employee concerns, and employee morale
• Monitors general department operations, establishes work schedules, issues daily work assignments and responds to requests for service
• Receives soiled and contaminated items in decontamination area
• Sorts equipment, rinses as needed, places equipment through sonic tanks and washers, reassembles trays, performs safety checks, hangs and sorts instruments, wraps sets according to set policy, and wraps towels and basins appropriately
• Sterilizes instruments and equipment using the aerator, gas sterilizer or steam sterilizer and operates glass dryer
• Packages items in steri/peel as required
• Performs quality assurance testing for all methods of sterilization to ensure sterility of supplies
• Ensures proper care and handling of high cost instrumentation and equipment to include items requiring special handling, laser instrumentation, orthopedic implants, cardiac assist devices, endoscopic and microscopic instrumentation
• Hand cleans miscellaneous instruments (Baxter pump, hypothermo units, etc.) and operates the cart cleaner
• Checks incoming trays and follows up with departments as to missing instruments or parts
• Receives or picks up case carts from central service, using physician’s preference cards and delivers them to the operating room
• Takes immediate and appropriate action if a question of sterilizer failure occurs

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.