Certified Sterile Processing Technician

bannerhealth; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 30,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Banner Health is seeking a Sterile Processing Department (SPD) Technician for the Evening shift at Banner Desert Medical Center/Banner Children’s at Desert. The role ensures sterile instrumentation is ready for procedures, handling cleaning, decontamination, assembly, sterilization and distribution across perioperative services and hospital departments.

The ideal candidate will decontaminate, assemble, and package instruments according to IFUs, maintain logs, and support OR priorities while

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Mechanical aptitude with ability to break down and reassemble moving parts.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Decontamination, assembly and packaging of surgical instruments following protocols.
• Maintain sterilization logs and quality assurance records for equipment.
• Interpret surgical schedule and prioritize instrumentation needs to minimize delays.
• Track instrumentation leaving the area and report replacements to maintain inventory.
• Operate sterilization equipment and verify device performance per IFUs and policy.
• Use QA testing devices for endoscopes and surgical instrumentation and ensure safe release.
• Maintain clean, safe environment following PPE and infection control practices.
• Rotate shifts and maintain regular attendance and professional appearance.

Education

High school diploma/GED

Tools

Mechanical aptitude

Job description

Primary City/State: Mesa, Arizona

Department Name: Sterile Processing Dept-Hosp

Work Shift: Evening

Job Category: Clinical Support

The Sterile Processing Department SPD is an integral part of the perioperative enterprise. Explore and excel. At Banner Health, health care is a team effort. One might be surprised by the number of people who work behind the scenes and play a critical role in ensuring the best care for our patients. New to service encouraged!

Banner Desert Medical Center/Banner Children’s at Desert has 24 Operating Rooms, which includes 3 trauma rooms, 6 pediatric rooms, 1 cysto suite, 4 minimally invasive and 3 robotic rooms. BDMC/CCMC offers a full range of surgical specialties, including Peds Cardiovascular and Adult and Peds Trauma, Urology, Orthopedics, General, Gynecology, Neurology, EENT, Plastics and Robotics. We are the busiest OR in the valley, fast paced, and performing high acuity cases. In 2017, BDMC/CCMC performed over 21,000 surgeries. Our technologies includes da Vinci Xi robot, NICO, Stealth guided brain surgery. Banner Desert Medical Center is recognized by US News as High Performing Hospital in Procedure/Condition Category. With the variety of specialties and surgical procedures, high patient safety score, available work shifts, level 1 trauma designation for adult and pediatric patients, stroke center, and CORE orthopedics this is an ideal facility for those interested in a fast paced environment and room for growth.

SHIFT DETAILS

Employment Type: Full-time Evening Shift

Shift Schedule: Monday to Friday 3pm-11:30pm

POSITION SUMMARY

This position demonstrates accountability for operating room readiness ensuring sterile surgical instrumentation and disposable supplies are complete and ready for a procedure prior to the preceding patient leaving the operating room. Responsible for the proper care and handling of all general and specialty instrumentation including the cleaning, decontamination, disassemble/reassemble, quality assurance, instrument identification, set assembly, packaging, sterilization, and distribution of surgical instrumentation for PeriOp Services, hospital departments, and clinics.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. 1. Provides decontamination and sterile processing support to PeriOp Services, ED, ICU, hospital wide departments, clinics both on and off campus, and ambulatory surgery centers. Provides various levels of service for the management of sterile surgical instrumentation and disposable patient care supplies. Support may-or-may-not include, decontamination of surgical instruments, assembly/sterilization, sterile instrument storage, partial or complete case cart support, OR core tech support and high-level disinfection.
2. 2. Responsible for the decontamination, assembly, and packaging of surgical instruments following established protocols, instructions for use (IFU) as well as performs required quality assurance, repairs, reassembly, documentation, sterility handling, and storage of specialized surgical instruments. Maintains required sterilization logs and quality assurance records relating to all equipment associated for the purpose of decontamination, HLD disinfection, and sterilization.
3. 3. Ability to interpret the surgical schedule and medical terminology as it pertains to scheduled procedures requiring sterile surgical instrumentation and disposable supplies needed. Able to address and communicate special needs to minimize delays to surgery. Responds to emergent calls from the Operating Room and performs preliminary investigation. Determines priority level of instrumentation requests and other hospital needs. Directs services in a competent and professional manner while assuring OR priorities are completed in a timely manner.
4. 4. Able to differentiate surgical instrumentation that is surgery owned, consignment/loaner, hospital depart, surgeon, ambulatory surgery center, and clinics both on and off campus. Completes necessary tracking of surgical instruments with a paper log sheet or computer process for instrumentation leaving the area. Reports needed replacement of surgical instruments to maintain the inventory and support readiness of sets.
5. 5. Utilizes specialized equipment for the decontamination, high-level disinfection, and sterilization of surgical instrumentation according to the device and equipment manufacturer's recommendations and hospital policy. Operates steam and hydrogen peroxide sterilizers of various. Operates automated surgical instrument washers, ultrasonics, flush pumps, visualization devices, and cart washers to include high-level disinfectors where supported.
6. 6. Operates various quality assurance testing equipment associated to flexible endoscopic scopes, transesophageal ultrasound probes, and electro-surgical insulation defect detector for laparoscopic and energy provided surgical instrumentation. Utilizes heat detection devices to allow steam sterilized surgical instrumentation to be released for use without risking burns to staff and patients. Operates demagnetizers of stainless-steel instruments for ophthalmic and delicate cardiac surgical instrumentation for safe use on patients. Utilizes various borescope devices to inspect inner channels of lumened surgical instrumentation and flexible scopes.
7. 7. Maintains a clean and safe environment by adhering to Standard Precautions and Infection Control practices. Staff follow protocols for proper donning of personnel protective equipment (PPE) while completing the decontamination process referencing IFUs supplied by the manufacturers.
8. 8. Maintain flexibility to rotate shifts and adjust hours as needed, maintain a work record of regular attendance, timely arrivals, and departures, maintain professional appearance appropriate to position and function.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma/GED or equivalent working knowledge.
• Must have mechanical aptitude with the ability to break down moving parts, clean, lubricate and reassemble, problem solve incomplete trays and missing instrumentation and have effective organizational, communication and human relation skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Complete national certification as an SPD Technician within one year of hire.
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

EEO Statement

EEO/Disabled/Veterans

Our organization supports a drug-free work environment.