Central Sterile Supply Lead Technician | Full Time | Days

Concord Hospital; Laconia (NH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Concord Hospital Health System is seeking a Lead Sterile Processing Technician to oversee the decontamination, set assembly and sterilization of instruments across Concord Hospital and affiliates. This role trains staff, enforces standards, and ensures timely, quality service on the Sterile Processing floor.

The Lead Technician will coach team members, monitor productivity, and maintain competency in all processing steps while collaborating with other departments to support patient care needs.

Qualifications

• Two years related experience and/or training in sterile processing.
• Certification required: IAHCSMM or CSPDT within 12 months of hire.
• Two years experience as a Central Sterile Supply Technician, Surgical Technologist or related.

Responsibilities

• Manages departmental systems and procedures to foster standardized work.
• Supports the growth and development of staff.
• Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated assignments in the Sterile Processing Department.
• Maintains a level of productivity, adaptability, flexibility and timeliness in managing workload and processes required to meet patient care and department needs.
• Works to improve service with internal and external departments.
• Maintains competency in decontamination, assembly and sterilization.
• Performs job specific requirements and other duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Staff training

Quality standards

Education

Two years related experience and/or training

IAHCSMM Certification

CSPDT Certification

Job description

Summary

Under the direction of the Manager Sterile Processing Department, the Lead Technician expedites the daily work flow. The Lead Technician holds technicians on his or her shift accountable for departmental service standards. He/she is instrumental in the training and teaching of new technicians. The Lead Technician is responsible for supporting and assisting in the delivery of quality surgical sets and supply delivery and is a front line member of the Sterile Processing Department. A Sterile Processing Department Lead Technician specializes in the decontamination, set assembly and sterilization of surgical instruments and equipment needed for patient care throughout Concord Hospital and its delegated affiliates.

Education

Two years related experience and/or training.

Certification, Registration & Licensure

Certification required: International Association for Health care Materiel Management (IAHCSMM) or Central Sterile Processing Distribution Technician (CSPDT) within 12 months of hire into role.

Experience

Two years experience as a Central Sterile Supply Technician, Surgical Technologist or related experience with surgical instrumentation or procedures.

Responsibilities

• Manages departmental systems and procedures to foster standardized work.
• Supports the growth and development of staff.
• Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated assignments in the areas within Sterile Processing Department.
• Maintains a level of productivity, adaptability, flexibility and timeliness in managing workload and processes required to meet patient care and department needs.
• Works to improve service with internal and external departments.
• Maintains competency in decontamination, assembly and sterilization.
• Performs job specific requirements and other duties as assigned.

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Physical and Work Requirements

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is MEDIUM. The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 - 25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 - 50 pounds.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to do fine motor. The employee is frequently required to bend, do repetitive motion, reach, hear, speak, and walk. The employee is occasionally required to stand, sit, and squat.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.

The employee is frequently exposed to bodily fluids, non-weather related heat or cold. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, airborne pathogens, bloodborne pathogens, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical hazards - shock, moving mechanical parts, radiation, slippery surfaces, toxic or caustic chemicals, vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.