Sterile Processing Department Assistant

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); Sur place; USD 19 000 - 26 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Baptist Health in Kentucky is looking for a Sterile Processing Assistant to join the team on 40 hours weekly, dayshift, full time. The role emphasizes organization, multitasking, and reliable service in a fast-paced SPD environment, handling case carts, sterilization, and inventory with care.

You will support cleaning, stocking, and proper placement of instruments, respond to interruptions, and maintain a safe, clean work area while delivering courteous service to internal customers.

Qualifications

• Prior Healthcare experience preferred.
• Sterile Processing knowledge preferred.

Responsabilités

• Replenishes supplies to sterile storage and examines for holes, tears, or other threats to sterility, and rotates sterile supplies for maximum utilization upon storage.
• Assembles case carts in an orderly and timely manner maintaining sterility and indicating missing items.
• Pulls items in accordance with pick ticket insuring all sterile processing items are accounted for.
• Answers bell, phone, etc, and relays all messages to the appropriate person or persons, in a timely and courteous manner.
• Interacts with customers using courtesy, clarity, and respect.
• Initiates corrective action, service recovery, and follow up when necessary.
• Responds to cart wash alarm and empties carts in a timely manner.

Connaissances

Healthcare experience

Sterile Processing knowledge

Description du poste

Job Summary

Sterile Processing Assistant 40 Hours Weekly, Full Time, Dayshift

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Must possess good organizational skills; be able to multitask with frequent interruptions, flexible working hours and a positive attitude with good communication skills. Be able to function in a fast‑paced environment, serving as a resource to Sterile Processing customers. Replenishes supplies to sterile storage and examines for holes, tears, or other threats to sterility, and rotates sterile supplies for maximum utilization upon storage. Replenishes supplies to standard storage throughout the department. Demonstrates proficiency in skills specific to area of practice such as unloading case cart and washer and other deem assigned tasks in a timely manner. Assists in maintaining all areas within SPD in a safe, clean, and orderly manner and insure that all supplies and instrumentation are put in their proper location. Assembles case carts in an orderly and timely manner maintaining sterility and indicating missing items. Pulls items in accordance with pick ticket insuring all sterile processing items are accounted for. Answers bell, phone, etc, and relays all messages to the appropriate person or persons, in a timely and courteous manner. Interacts with customers using courtesy, clarity, and respect. Perform other duties as directed or required Utilizes Abacus instrument tracking system consistently and appropriately as it pertains to sterile processing functions assigned. Expected to perform cleaning, stocking, and organizational functions within the department daily to promote maximum efficiency. Communicates information promptly and accurately with customers and SPD staff. Initiates corrective action, service recovery, and follow up when necessary. Responds to cart wash alarm and empties carts in a timely manner.

Requirements

Prior Healthcare experience preferred. Sterile Processing knowledge preferred.

About Baptist Health

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.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

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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