Sterile Process Technician Certified Lead

Selectminds; Bay City (MI); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care seeks a Certified Lead Sterile Process Technician to join our sterile processing team in Michigan. The role covers decontamination, sterilization, packaging, and distribution of surgical instrumentation, ensuring quality control and inventory management.

The position includes lead duties like quality improvement and staff training, with a standard schedule of 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, on-call responsibilities, and full-time status.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Certification as a sterile processing technician (CBSPD).
• Completion of approved sterile processing course.

Responsibilities

• Performs decontamination, cleaning, assembling, packaging, scanning, sterilization, storage and distribution of reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment.
• Monitors wash solutions for quality and consistency in decontamination.
• Sorts mismatched instruments and makes them available to customers in a timely manner.
• Restocks, labels, and maintains inventory; submits requisitions; distributes instruments and equipment.
• Maintains environmental cleanliness and assists in inventory in sterile processing and operating areas.
• Verifies equipment functioning and coordinates maintenance or replacement.
• Assists in maintaining departmental policies, quality improvement, safety and infection control standards.
• Performs additional duties as required.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

CBSPD certification

Job description

The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.

Sterile Process Technician Certified Lead

Position Summary: Performs and participates in decontamination, cleaning, assembling, packaging, scanning, sterilization, storage and distribution of reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment.

Job Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Decontaminates and sterilizes instruments, medical supplies and equipment, and assembles, wraps and sterilizes trays of instruments. Follows proper standard precautions while in decontamination and sterilization areas.
2. Monitors biological and chemical wash solution to ensure quality and consistency for decontamination of instruments and medical equipment.
3. Sorts mismatched sets of instruments, trays, and medical equipment and makes them available to sterile processing customers in a timely manner.
4. Restocks, labels, and maintains inventory, submits requisitions, collects and distributes instruments, trays, crash carts, and facility medical equipment.
5. Performs environmental maintenance duties and assists in maintaining inventory levels in sterile processing, the operating room, and in equipment storage areas.
6. Verifies that equipment functions properly, requisitions for equipment maintenance, repair or replacement, and removes defective equipment.
7. Assists with maintaining established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, and quality improvement, safety, and environmental and infection control standards.
8. Performs other related duties as required and directed.

Lead Duties and Responsibilities (If classified in a Lead Role):

1. Assists in quality control and performance improvement activities.
2. Contributes to performance feedback, hiring decisions.
3. Ensures standards are met (quality, timeliness, customer service, etc.).
4. Evaluates and tests new procedures/processes.
5. Orients and/or trains new staff.
6. Problem solving capabilities.
7. Subject matter expert/technical leadership.
8. Work flow/distribution of work.
9. Assists in assuring compliance with all regulatory and other agency requirements, laws, and statutes pertaining to the operation of the department

Qualifications:

Required:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Completion of approved sterile processing course and certification as a sterile processing technician by the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD).

Preferred:

• Prior experience in sterile processing preferred.
• Actively enrolled in approved sterile processing course with defined completion date.

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Requisition ID: 26004912
• Daily Work Times: 8 am to 4:30 pm
• On Call: Yes

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status,national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classificationprotected by law.