Sterile Processing Department Manager

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky seeks an experienced Sterile Processing Manager to lead our SPD, directing decontamination, assembly, sterilization, tracking, and maintenance of surgical instrumentation.

This 24-hour operation requires a strong leader who can build a high-performing team, ensure regulatory compliance (AAMI/AORN), manage budgets, and partner with Surgical Services to support safe, high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a healthcare field is required.
• Minimum of two years of sterile processing experience with knowledge of operations and sterilization.
• CRCST or CBSPD certification required on hire; CIS and CHL preferred.

Responsibilities

• Direct decontamination, assembly, sterilization, tracking, and maintenance of surgical instrumentation.
• Oversee SPD operations on a 24-hour basis and ensure adequate supplies for procedures.
• Manage departmental budgets and set performance expectations.
• Collaborate with Surgical Services, vendors, and interdisciplinary teams to ensure safe, efficient instrument readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Quality assurance

Regulatory compliance

Process optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing or related healthcare field

Job description

Summary Job Description: Manager, Sterile Processing Baptist Health is seeking an experienced and motivated Sterile Processing Manager to provide leadership and oversight of our Sterile Processing Department (SPD). This key leadership position is responsible for directing daily operations, ensuring the safe and efficient reprocessing of surgical instruments and equipment, and maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and regulatory compliance. The successful candidate will be a strong leader with the ability to build and develop a high-performing team while overseeing all aspects of sterile processing operations on a 24-hour basis. Responsibilities include directing the decontamination, assembly, sterilization, tracking, and maintenance of surgical instrumentation; ensuring adequate supplies and equipment to support surgical procedures; and maintaining compliance with AAMI and AORN standards. The Manager will oversee departmental budgets, establish performance expectations, evaluate and develop staff, and promote operational efficiency and continuous quality improvement. This position works closely with Surgical Services, Operating Room personnel, vendors, and interdisciplinary teams to ensure accurate surgical case preparation, timely instrument availability, and exceptional service to support safe, high-quality patient care.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing or a related healthcare field required.
• Minimum of two years of demonstrated experience in sterile processing, with strong knowledge of sterile processing operations, instrumentation, and sterilization practices required.
• Current Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) or Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD) certification required upon hire.
• CIS and CHL certification preferred.

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, 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.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES 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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