Sterile Processing Tech (SPT)

Central Sterile Supervisor

Are you passionate about quality and committed to excellence? Consider joining our Tidelands Health team. As our region's largest health care provider, we are also one of our area's largest employers. More than 2,500 team members at more than 70 Tidelands Health locations bring our healing mission to life each day.

A Brief Overview

The Central Sterile Supervisor is responsible for quality control and the policies and procedures to ensure compliance with institutional and regulatory requirements as described by AAMI, DHEC and Joint Commission across all Company sites of care that provide instrument sterilization. The Central Sterile Supervisor helps to verify the IFU for sterilization, cleaning and sterilizing and selecting the proper storage area.

What You Will Do

• Support daily operations of all activities that relate to the reprocessing of reusable medical supplies and instrumentation including decontamination, cleaning, assembly, wrapping, sterilization, and storage processes within all set professional standards and regulations. Assists Manager, Central Sterile to ensure proper operational procedures are followed
• Responsible for directing department workflow based on schedule
• Communicate gaps/needs in department and assist in providing timely resolution to facility issues or concerns
• Refer all decisions beyond personal scope of responsibilities to Manager, Central Sterile
• Reports broken instrumentation and equipment and communicates low par levels of SPD consumable supplies
• Communicate to Manager, Central Sterile all non-compliance with regulatory and safety issues
• Lead and participate in in-services and educational offerings pertaining to Central Sterile
• Promote best demonstrated practices with co-workers through open communication and continuous improvement of skills
• Maintain a professional relationship with all facility departments to ensure effective, efficient support to the patient caregivers
• Answer and responds to calls from the OR and other end-users during assigned shift

Education Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED Required
• Completion of a Sterile Processing/Surgical Technologist program Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• 2 - years' experience demonstrated proficiency in Sterile Processing Required

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to complete complex tasks based on applied knowledge under minimal supervision
• Able to work on complex and very critical processes and react to urgent needs to ensure OR needs are met – ability to delegate to technicians appropriately
• Able to perform assembly on all instrument trays and sets with proficiency
• Possess a detailed understanding of instruments and department equipment including special/complex set components
• Ability to troubleshoot missing instrument replacements and anticipate tray needs for specials cases/unplanned cases
• Acts as a mentor/coach to Sterile Processing Technicians and may provide on-the-spot performance related feedback, when applicable
• Ability to assist with training of new employees and/or re-training for specific Standard Operating Procedures.
• Ability to use established policies and procedures to complete work assignments
• Ability to clearly communicate workflow in the department with technicians and leadership
• Basic computer skills and aptitude. Must be capable of learning software programs and/or hardware as required
• Extensive knowledge of instrumentation. Proven ability to act as a resource for staff in both SPD and OR regarding identification and assembly of specialty instrument trays
• Demonstrated proficiency with all areas of sterile processing including decontamination, cleaning, assembly, wrapping, sterilization, and storage processes within all set professional standards and regulations
• Medical instrument knowledge
• Knowledge of sterilization and processing equipment
• Ability to work daily in a fast-paced, high pressure Healthcare Service environment

Licenses and Certifications

• Certified Registered Central Service Technician - Healthcare Sterile Processing Association Required
• Certified Instrument Specialist - Healthcare Sterile Processing Association Preferred
• Certified Healthcare Leader - Healthcare Sterile Processing Association Preferred
• Certified Endoscope Reprocessor - Healthcare Sterile Processing Association Preferred

Physical Demand Light Physical Demand

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a contract for employment nor a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Tidelands Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.