Sterile Processing Support Assistant, Jewish Hospital, 630a-3p

Primary Location:

JHHS - Jewish Hospital - UMC

Address:

200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville KY 40202

Shift:

Varied (United States of America)

Job Description Summary:

About Us
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with eight hospitals four medical centers Brown Cancer Center Eye Institute nearly 200 physician practice locations and more than 1000 providers in Louisville and the surrounding counties including southern Indiana. Additional access to UofL Health is provided through a partnership with Carroll County Memorial Hospital.

With more than 13000 team members physicians surgeons nurses pharmacists and other highly-skilled health care professionals UofL Health is focused on one mission: to transform the health of communities we serve through compassionate innovative patient-centered care.

Our Mission
As an academic health care system we will transform the health of the communities we serve through compassionate innovative patient-centered care.

Job Summary

The Sterile Processing Support Assistant assists in providing the highest quality patient care by supplying sterile and non-sterile supplies instruments and equipment to all departments/areas within the University Medical Center complex. The Support Assistants responsibilities include but are not limited to: pick-up and delivery of all reusable items to appropriate areas packing and delivery of case carts restocking supplies and crediting supply returns to SPD. Maintains compliance with established policies and procedures of Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Associates of perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) and CDC guidelines.

Job Description:

Effectively communicates with co-workers and all other hospital personnel
Answers Vocera/telephone promptly and assist caller with obtaining items needed
Assembles supplies and places into case carts for scheduled and non-scheduled procedures
Makes rounds throughout the hospital to deliver sterile and non-sterile instrumentation supplies and equipment and to pick-up contaminated or credit instrumentation supplies and equipment
Delivers scheduled case carts to the Surgery Department
Inventories and delivers back-up case carts to the Surgery Department and required areas
Maintains responsibility for returned instrumentation and supplies (if applicable) that is unused and the integrity of packaging has not been compromised

Additional Job Description:

Education & Training:High School graduate or GED required

Experience:One year previous experience in a healthcare setting in a clinical capacity preferred

License & Certification:None

Required Experience:

Junior IC