Lead Sterile Processing Technician: Expert Guidance

National Institutes of Health; Maryland; On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, seeks a Lead Medical Supply Technician (Sterile Processing) in the Clinical Center Nursing Department, Sterile Processing Service. The Lead is an advanced practitioner who guides staff and directs department activities during the tour of duty.

As subject matter expert, you will oversee decontamination, sterilization, and preparation of instruments, scopes, sets, and kits, and provide on-the-job training to ensure quality.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of Medical Supply Technicians and is responsible for all activities during the assigned tour, ensuring work is distributed, balanced, and completed according to priorities and procedures.
• Provides technical guidance and on-the-job training to employees and reviews completed work to ensure established standards are met.
• Decontaminates and cleans reusable medical and surgical instruments, scopes, and medical devices.
• Disassembles, inspects, reassembles, and prepares medical instruments, surgical trays, sets, and kits for sterilization or high-level disinfection.
• Operates instrument washers, scope-cleaning equipment, and steam, gas, and low-temperature sterilizers using appropriate processing methods and cycles.
• Reviews sterilization cycle results and inspects processed instruments and equipment to ensure required parameters, package integrity, and established quality standards are met.

Job description

The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, seeks a Lead Medical Supply Technician (Sterile Processing) in the Clinical Center Nursing Department, Sterile Processing Service. The Lead is an advanced practitioner who guides staff and directs department activities during the tour of duty.

As subject matter expert, you will oversee decontamination, sterilization, and preparation of instruments, scopes, sets, and kits, and provide on-the-job training to ensure quality.