Lead Certified Sterile Processor

Summary: The Lead Certified Sterile Processing Technician is responsible for decontamination, correct assembly, and sterile processing of all instrumentation used at the surgery center. Responsible for maintaining appropriate levels of sterile supplies for the center. Essential Responsibilities will include the following, and other duties may be assigned. Sterilization Duties: Adheres to center sterilization and infection control standards for cleaning and sterilizing contaminated items or supplies. Ensures instruments and surgical trays are clean, sterile, assembled, and ready prior to procedures. Ensures the availability of adequate levels of sterile instruments and supplies meet the demands of the surgery schedule. Checks sterile items for substitution needs by replacing damaged, expired, or missing instruments. Maintains inventory by rotating, sorting, wrapping, packaging, and appropriately labeling instruments and supplies. Inserts sterilization indicators inside all packages and report any lost instruments to appropriate staff. Monitors autoclaves for proper temperatures and ensures repair orders are reported to supervisors or representatives responsible for escalated maintenance. Maintenance Duties: Ensures instrument maintenance by proactively inspecting instrumentation for defects and/or failures to meet company standards. Ensures proper instrumentation circulation by coordinating repairs, sharpening, and removing instrumentation that requires repair services. Lubricates instruments as needed. Maintains accurate records for repaired or maintained instruments. Other Duties: Assists operating room personnel by ensuring operating rooms are clean, patients are transported, and necessary case information is accurately transcribed. Assists with surgical preps and patient positioning. Unpacks, stocks, and re-stocks operating room shelves with supplies needed to assist with procedural efficiency. Participates as a member of the team to promote a positive working environment, and assist other technicians when requested or necessary. Identifies and provides suggestions on how to help develop departmental policies and procedures concerning patient care, patient flow, and operational efficiency. Qualifications: Successful individuals who perform the responsibilities of this position must perform their essential duties satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to assist individuals with disabilities in performing the functions required of the position. Education: Required: High school diploma or general education degree (GED). · Experience: o Required: Minimum of 5 years related experience in assembly and sterilization of surgical instrumentation; or Completion of formal Sterile Processing Technician training; or, Certification from a program that includes aseptic technique and infection control training. Licensure and Certification: Certification from the Board for Sterile Processing & Distribution (CBSPD Technician Certification). Required: Basic Life Support Certification – BLS. Job Knowledge and Technical Skills – Thoroughly understands all aspects of the job; upholds company standards of ethical operations by ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations; possesses the practical hands-on experience, needs some direction, drives to build a knowledge base and improve professional skills continuously. Medical Office Environment – Possesses an understanding of a medical office operation's functionality, patient safety, and patient flow while providing optimal patient care and consideration. Productivity and Dependability – Meets schedules, deadlines, and productivity standards; completes tasks on time or notifies the appropriate person with an alternate plan, strives to exceed productivity standards by completing work promptly, prioritizes workloads, attains needed resources, and execute a strategy that optimized results. Communication – Speaks clearly and persuasively in all situations, listens without interrupting and seeks clarification, responds well to questions, and writes in an informative and professional manner. Customer Service – Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; promptly responds to customer needs; solicits customer feedback to improve service; promptly responds to requests for service and assistance; meets commitments. Teamwork – Works effectively with others; balances the team's needs and those of the individual; gives and welcomes feedback. Judgment and Problem Solving – Gathers and analyzes information skillfully using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems; identifies and resolves issues promptly; considers relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one; uses reason when dealing with emotional topics. Professionalism and Interpersonal Skills – Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position, tactfully approaches others, focuses on solving conflict without blame, maintains confidentiality, accepts responsibility for own actions, follows through on commitments, remains open to others' ideas and tries new things. Adaptability – Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation, copes well with frequent changes, delays, or unexpected events. Stress Management – Reacts and responds well under pressure; keeps emotions under control; successfully copes with demands from superiors, subordinates, and peers. Initiative – Displays the desire to volunteer readily and undertake self-development activities by seeking increased responsibilities, sets and achieves challenging goals while demonstrating persistence in overcoming obstacles, measures self against excellence standards while asking for and offering help when needed. Innovation – Displays original thinking and creativity, meets challenges with resourcefulness, generates suggestions for improving work, develops innovative approaches and ideas, presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention Job Type: Full-time Pay: $57.00 per hour Benefits: 401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Flexible spending account Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Vision insurance Medical Specialty: Surgery Schedule: 8 hour shift Monday to Friday No weekends License/Certification: CSSLP (Preferred) Ability to Commute: Berkeley, CA 94702 (Required) Ability to Relocate: Berkeley, CA 94702: Relocate before starting work (Required) Work Location: In person