Sterile Processing Technician

Sterile Processing Technician

Receives, cleans, decontaminates, and sterilizes reusable patient care equipment, instrumentation, and supplies. Disassembles, inspects, inventories, and assembles both surgical and house instrumentation as well as procedural trays. Maintains adequate inventory levels for surgical/house instrumentation and supplies. Assembles surgical case carts as required. Records and maintains required sterilization records under the supervision of a CRCST or RCST.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Must become registered within twelve (12) months initially from the date the Sterile Processing Tech receives their course materials to become certified. If transferring between Sterile Processing and Endoscopy before certification, employees must be certified within the twelve (12) months of the date they initially received their course materials.

Core Duties and Responsibilities:

• Cleans, decontaminates, assembles and sterilizes all reusable patient care equipment, in accordance with departmental policy and procedure, Infection Control standards and regulations.
• Operates all sterilization and decontamination equipment, in accordance with departmental policies and procedures safely and efficiently asking for resourcing as needed.
• Inspects, assembles and sterilizes all surgical and house instrumentation in accordance with departmental policy and procedure.
• Restocks accurately case carts with supplies, instrumentation and equipment as indicated by pick list generated from daily surgical schedule.
• Restocks accurately with unexpired products for Surgical Services including the Outpatient Services and Labor & Delivery supply carts, specialty carts and top track.
• Stages and delivers case carts, stocking carts, and equipment via clean cart lift as well as clean OR service elevator.
• Inventories and maintains adequate levels of all instrumentation and sterile supplies utilized.
• Reports and records missing and/or damaged instrumentation/equipment, in accordance with set policy and procedure.
• Serves as initial contact for all departmental inquiries from customers.
• Answers, records and responds to all requests via phone and/or in person in a courteous and professional manner. Phone requests are to be answered in accordance to WVU Medicine Behavioral Standards.
• Receives and returns unexpired items to inventory, in accordance with set policy and procedure.
• Maintains work areas in a clean, neat and orderly fashion on a daily basis.
• Cleans work area prior to end of shift in preparation for the oncoming shift.
• Attends regularly scheduled in-services.
• Participates in the cross training for new surgical instrumentation and equipment.

Physical Requirements:

• Physically capable of prolonged periods of standing and walking.
• Capable of lifting up to 60 pounds and pushing loaded carts weighing in excess of 200 pounds.
• Possess visual/oral acuity along with manual dexterity and technical ability.
• Able to discern and distinguish colors.

Working Environment:

• Able to work in a high stress environment.
• Complete vision screening test for near and far vision. Must screen 20/40 or better or will be referred to the Eye Center.

Skills and Abilities:

• Understand and practice excellent personal hygiene.
• Able to operate computer program with training.
• Demonstrate English verbal and written proficiencies to utilize written high level disinfection/sterilization guidelines

Additional Job Description:

• Rotating weekends and Holidays shift is 7am to 3:30pm
• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Shift: Day (United States of America)
• Exempt/Non-Exempt: United States of America (Non-Exempt)
• Company: WVUH West Virginia University Hospitals
• Cost Center: 615 WVUH Sterile Processing
• Address: 1 Medical Center Drive Morgantown West Virginia

Equal Opportunity Employer

West Virginia University Health System and its subsidiaries (collectively "WVUHS") is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. WVUHS strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. All WVUHS employees, other workers, and representatives are prohibited from engaging in unlawful discrimination. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.