Sterile Processing Technician Lead

Full-time evening shift from 1500-2230 with no weekends or holidays.

• →Acts as a resource to employees, which includes training/orienting, providing day-to-day work direction, and giving input on performance. Assigns, monitors, and reviews progress and accuracy of work, directs efforts and provides guidance on more complex issues.
• →Assists with human resource responsibilities, which may include: interviewing and selection of new employees, orientation, staff development, providing performance feedback, resolution of employee concerns, and employee morale.
• →Monitors general department operations, establishes work schedules, issues daily work assignments and responds to requests for service.
• →Receives soiled and contaminated items in decontamination area. Sorts equipment, rinses as needed, places equipment through sonic tanks and washers, reassembles trays, performs safety checks, hangs and sorts instruments, wraps sets according to set policy, and wraps towels and basins appropriately.
• →Sterilizes instruments and equipment using the aerator, gas sterilizer or steam sterilizer and operates glass dryer. Packages items in steri/peel as required. Performs quality assurance testing for all methods of sterilization to ensure sterility of supplies.
• →Ensures proper care and handling of high cost instrumentation and equipment to include items requiring special handling, laser instrumentation, orthopedic implants, cardiac assist devices, endoscopic and microscopic instrumentation.
• →Hand cleans miscellaneous instruments (Baxter pump, hypothermo units, etc.) and operates the cart cleaner.
• →Checks incoming trays and follows up with departments as to missing instruments or parts.
• →Receives or picks up case carts from central service, using physician's preference cards and delivers them to the operating room.
• →Takes immediate and appropriate action if a question of sterilizer failure occurs.

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

• Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) certification issued by the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA), or
• Sterile Processing and Distribution Technician (CSPDT) certification issued by the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc. (CBSPD), or
• Flexible Endoscope Reprocessor (CFER) certification issued by the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc (CBSPD).

• High School Graduate.

• Typically requires 3 years of experience in sterile processing.

• Must have thorough knowledge of sterilization principles and requirements, inventory and asset management, and quality assurance activities.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills necessary.
• Ability to function in a stressful and fast paced environment.

• Must stand, walk, lift, squat, bend, twist and reach above shoulders various times throughout the workday.
• Must be able to:
• lift up to 15 lbs. from floor to overhead.
• lift up to 50 lbs. from floor to waist.
• lift and carry up to 50 lbs. at waist height a reasonable distance.
• Must be able to:
• push/pull with 20 lbs. of force.
• push/pull objects weighing 200+ lbs. during the workday.
• Atmosphere in work environment may contain fumes and dust.
• Exposed to chemical hazards as well as blood and body fluids. Thus, protective clothing must be worn as necessary.
• Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.