Quality Assurance Specialist - Sterile Processing

Sterile Processing Team Member

Join the Sterile Processing Team at BJC Healthcare's flagship hospital and academic campus. Barnes Jewish Hospital is dedicated to your growth and development. Be a part of an environment where you can thrive!

Full-time and Benefits

Schedule - Monday thru Friday

Hours - Primarily 1:30pm - 10:00pm

Education: Bachelor's in a healthcare related or science is preferred

Duties: The QA team exists to protect patient safety and OR operational performance. Your role is not to collect and relay issues it is to ensure quality events are identified, documented, investigated, and resolved, and that quality instrumentation is reliably available for every scheduled case. QA team members are expected to be a proactive contributor to performance improvement.

Overview

Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri and is ranked as one of the nation's top hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. Barnes-Jewish Hospital's staff is composed of full-time academic faculty and community physicians of Washington University School of Medicine, supported by a house staff of residents, interns, fellows and other medical professionals. Recognizing its excellence in nursing care, Barnes-Jewish Hospital was the first adult hospital in Missouri to be certified as a Magnet Hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

At Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Perioperative Services team members find the kind of fast-paced environment that will test their professional judgment and critical thinking skills, and encourage tremendous growth. It's an exhilarating place to build a career. Here, you'll work with world-renowned surgeons and anesthesiologists, assist on unique and complex procedures, work with the latest technologies and treatments and play a vital role in developing new procedures and treatment protocols. In fact, people from all over the nation and the world come to Barnes-Jewish for our surgical specialties.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Under the general direction of the Director of Central Sterile Processing and Perioperative Leadership, the QA Specialist is responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on all quality measures related to output, process and performance. In collaboration with SPD leadership minimizes the frequency and severity of adverse events, manages and investigates the causes of those events to prevent errors. Quality management includes process audits, incident reporting, root cause analysis. This position will be responsible for auditing all processes within SPD department, assisting with training of new employees and confirming employee competence. The QA Specialist will also assist SPD managers with the implementation and audit of department policies and procedures as well as implementing performance improvement activities. Proactive as well as reactive by providing support and regulatory and best practice guidance for risk reduction and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the development and implementation of the Quality Management Plan in accordance to the requirements of all regulatory bodies.
• Performs quality controls for all equipment and troubleshoots malfunctioning instrumentation as necessary. Assesses technical and or instrument problems, including quality control and abnormal findings, evaluate possible solutions and chooses an appropriate course of action to solve the problem.
• Performs regular audits of processes and ensures continuous mandatory regulatory readiness for accrediting agencies.
• Audits and processes continuously and validates all documentation and results to ensure regulatory compliance as well as best practices, competency assessment and documentation.
• Investigates and provides leadership with recommendations for performance and quality improvement.
• BJC has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Experience

• 2-5 years

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience

Preferred Requirements

Education

• Master's Degree

Licenses & Certifications

• Sterile Processing Department

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we're committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary.

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer