Certified Sterile Processing Technician

Texas Children's Hospital; Katy (TX); On-site; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus in Houston seeks a Certified Sterile Processing Technologist to support surgical teams. You will handle instruments, supplies, and equipment for procedures, ensuring aseptic technique and timely turnover.

Requirements include CRCST or CSPDT certifications, completion of externship hours, knowledge of OR instrumentation, ability to operate sterilizers, and independence in a fast-paced environment. Equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Experience with a wide variety of instrumentation used in the operating room.
• Ability to operate OR sterilization and processing equipment and prioritize tasks.

Responsibilities

• Processes decontaminated medical devices per established priorities and IFUs.
• Receives instruments from decontamination and processes them appropriately.
• Performs cleaning of workspace, instrument room, and cabinets; monitors environmental indicators and sterilizers.
• Completes sterilization processes and performs high-level disinfection.
• Performs other instrument-room duties as assigned.

Skills

Sterile processing

Instrument handling

Independence in fast-paced environment

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Job Description

We are searching for a

We are searching for a Certified Sterile Processing Technologist- - someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will handle instruments, supplies, and equipment necessary during the surgical procedure, assisting the physician while performing related patient care duties in an age-appropriate manner as assigned by the circulating nurse (RN).

Think you’ve got what it takes?

• completion of all externship hours required for certification
• knowledge of wide variety of instrumentation used in the operating room throughout the hospital
• ability to operate all OR sterilization and processing equipment to prioritize and organize and to work independently

Preferred Education

• High School Diploma or GED

License Required (1)

• CRCST - Cert-Cert Reg Cent Ser TECH by The Healthcare Sterile Processing Association, OR
• CSPDT - Cert-Sterile Proc & Dist Tech by the Certified Sterile Processing and Distribution Technician issued by The Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Processes decontaminated medical devices as they are received, according to established priorities, medical device IFU’s and best practices
• Processes decontaminated medical devices as they are received, according to established priorities, medical device IFU’s and best practices
• Receives instruments from the decontamination area and processes appropriately
• Performs physical and environmental duties as designated on a routine daily basis, including but not limited to cleaning workspace/instrument room/cabinets, emptying biohazards waste, monitoring sterilizers, and checking environmental monitors
• Completes sterilization processes
• Performs high-level disinfection
• Performs other duties as assigned, including other essential instrument room duties

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

About Us

Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus is Houston’s first community hospital designed, built and equipped exclusively for children in one of the city’s most rapidly growing communities in the area from Sugar Land to Bryan-College Station, Texas. Located at I-10 and Barker Cypress, our 515,007-square-foot hospital houses the only 24/7 pediatric emergency room in the Greater West Houston area, four operating rooms, 16-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 46 acute care beds, advanced imaging services including MRI and CT scans, a neurophysiology sleep lab, a pathology lab and a full-scale pharmacy.

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.