Supervisor Sterile Processing

Sterile Processing Supervisor

As a Sterile Processing Supervisor, oversee supply distribution in healthcare settings like hospitals, clinics, and operating rooms. This role is crucial for maintaining service standards and resource availability. Ensure our department meets or exceeds healthcare accreditation standards in a cost-effective way. Manage smaller sites with fewer than ten employees. Success in this role will improve healthcare service operations.

Essential Functions of the Role:

• Organize supply delivery in healthcare, ensuring quality and timeliness. Ensure proper staffing and staff involvement in improving performance.
• Regularly clean the department surface areas, shelving, storage cabinets, and all storage locations in the facility.
• Work with facility units to maintain inventory levels, set standards, monitor stock, and ensure resource use is proper.
• Create supply control processes to keep patient care materials available at all times. Regularly check inventory in nursing units. Provide emergency items as needed. Handle inquiries, complaints, or questions about equipment and supplies.
• Help process and sterilize instruments. Make sure everything stays clean for patient safety. This helps prevent the spread of contamination.
• Oversee cleaning patient rental equipment. Monitor use, costs, and get equipment from outside services as needed.
• Maintain equipment with regular maintenance. Follow safety rules, including OSHA guidelines, for handling Ethylene Oxide and sterilized items safely.
• Identify areas that need improvement, assess potential enhancement opportunities, and passionately participate in process improvement initiatives.

Key Success Factors:

• Acquaintance with medical supplies, instruments, and the functioning of healthcare settings such as hospitals and clinics.
• Comprehensive understanding of aseptic techniques.
• Familiarity with various types of sterilizers and the methods to evaluate their performance.
• Proficiency in handling all components of the ETO and Spill Plan Alarm System.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication.
• Extraordinary focus on details complemented by effective time management abilities.
• Great customer service skills for interacting with stakeholders like healthcare providers, insurance companies, doctors, and staff from different departments.
• Understand regulatory requirements related to the role.

Qualifications:

• Education - H.S. Diploma/GED Equivalent
• Experience - 3 Years of Experience
• Certification/License/Registration:
• Cert Reg Central Service Tech (CRCST), Cert Sterile Proc/Distr Tech (CSPDT), Sterile Processing Mgmt Cert (CSPM), Cert Surgical Technologist (CST), or License Pract/Vocational Nurse (LVN): Must have one of the following.
• LVN
• Certified Surgical Technologist (CST)
• Certified Board Sterile Prcng&Dist (CBSPD)
• Certified Sterile Proc/Distr Tech (CSPDT)
• Sterile Processing Mgmt Certification (CSPM) or Certified Reg Central Service Tech through IAHCSMM (CRCST).