SPD Instrument Quality Technician

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking a Sterile Processing Quality Technician to support surgical excellence and patient safety. The role focuses on audits, recordkeeping, inventory, and vendor coordination to maintain clean, ready instrument sets.

The ideal candidate will have CRCST/CBSPD certification and at least two years of sterile processing experience, enabling you to drive continuous quality improvements and staff education across the SPD team.

Qualifications

• Two years of experience in sterile processing, surgical services, or instrument management.
• CRCST or CBSPD certification required.

Responsibilities

• Perform quality audits of instrument trays and sets to ensure cleanliness, functionality, accuracy, and readiness for patient care.
• Monitor sterilization records and quality assurance documentation to ensure compliance with departmental and regulatory standards.
• Maintain computerized quality tracking systems, reports, and audit records.
• Manage inventory of surgical instruments, specialty sets, and backup supplies to support clinical operations.
• Coordinate instrument repairs, preventive maintenance, refurbishment, and replacement activities with vendors and service providers.
• Maintain instrument tracking systems, set lineups, reference guides, and inventory records.
• Assist with troubleshooting instrument-related concerns and implementing corrective actions when opportunities for improvement are identified.
• Support staff education and continuous quality improvement initiatives through audit findings and process recommendations.

Skills

Sterile processing

Quality audits

Regulatory compliance

Documentation

Education

CRCST/CBSPD certification

Job description

Summary Job Description: Sterile Processing Quality Control Instrument Technician 40 Hours Weekly, Full Time, Dayshift

Join our Sterile Processing team as a Sterile Processing Quality Technician, where you will play a critical role in supporting patient safety and surgical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform quality audits of instrument trays and sets to ensure cleanliness, functionality, accuracy, and readiness for patient care.
• Monitor sterilization records and quality assurance documentation to ensure compliance with departmental and regulatory standards.
• Maintain computerized quality tracking systems, reports, and audit records.
• Manage inventory of surgical instruments, specialty sets, and backup supplies to support clinical operations.
• Coordinate instrument repairs, preventive maintenance, refurbishment, and replacement activities with vendors and service providers.
• Maintain instrument tracking systems, set lineups, reference guides, and inventory records.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and resource for SPD staff, Surgical Services, physicians, and vendors regarding instrumentation issues and best practices.
• Assist with troubleshooting instrument-related concerns and implementing corrective actions when opportunities for improvement are identified.
• Support staff education and continuous quality improvement initiatives through audit findings and process recommendations.
• Maintain an organized, safe, and efficient work environment and perform Sterile Processing Technician duties as needed.

Qualifications

• CRCST or CBSPD Required.
• Two years of Experience in Sterile Processing, Surgical Services, or instrument management Required.
• CIS Preferred.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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