Sterile Processing Lead

ThedaCare; United States; On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

ThedaCare seeks a Sterile Processing Lead to oversee instrument processing, ensure quality and safety, and collaborate with medical staff across hospital and clinic settings. This role emphasizes process improvement, regulatory compliance, and staff leadership within the sterile processing department.

Responsibilities include managing workflow, training staff, and ensuring timely processing of instruments in alignment with hospital policies and industry standards.

Qualifications

• Two to three years Sterile Processing experience preferred.
• Leadership experience preferred.
• Certification within first year of employment required.

Responsibilities

• Ensures high-level disinfection and sterile processing performance per standards (AAMI/OSHA/Joint Commission/AORN).
• Trains and directs staff, provides day-to-day work direction, and guides complex issues.
• Receives and processes instrumentation from OR, departments, clinics, and external customers promptly.

Skills

Sterile processing

Leadership

Quality assurance

Education

CRCST certification

CIS certification

CER certification

CHL certification

CCSVP certification

Job description

Why ThedaCare?

Living A Life Inspired!

Our new vision at ThedaCare is bold, ambitious, and ignited by a shared passion to provide outstanding care. We are inspired to reinvent health care by becoming a proactive partner in health, enriching the lives of all and creating value in everything we do. Each of us are called to take action in delivering higher standards of care, lower costs and a healthier future for our patients, our families, our communities and our world.

At ThedaCare, our team members are empowered to be the catalyst of change through our values of compassion, excellence, leadership, innovation, and agility. A career means much more than excellent compensation and benefits. Our team members are supported by continued opportunities for learning and development, accessible and transparent leadership, and a commitment to work/life balance. If you’re interested in joining a health care system that is changing the face of care and well-being in our community, we encourage you to explore a future with ThedaCare.

Benefits, with a whole-person approach to wellness –

• Lifestyle Engagement

  • e.g. health coaches, relaxation rooms, health focused apps (Wonder, Ripple), mental health support

• Access & Affordability

  • e.g. minimal or zero copays, team member cost sharing premiums, daycare

About ThedaCare!

Summary :

The Sterile Processing Lead helps assign team members, and oversees workflow efficiency, instrument processing, and activities within the sterile processing department. Collaborates and develops relationships with medical staff, team members, hospital and clinic customers, patients, and visitors. Promotes process improvement and quality initiatives. Helps support departmental adherence to ThedaCare policies, regulatory standards, and compliance.

Job Description:

Key Accountabilities

• Ensures optimal, high-level disinfection and sterile processing performance through quality controls established within the department and set forth by AAMI, OSHA, Joint Commission, and AORN.
• Acts as a resource to employees, which includes training/orienting, providing day to day work direction, and giving input on performance. Assigns, monitors, and reviews progress and accuracy of work, directs efforts and provides guidance on more complex issues.
• Receives and processes instrumentation, supplies, and equipment from the operating room, hospital departments, clinics, and outside customers in a timely manner.
• Ensures safety and quality of items processed via disassembly, inspection, and decontamination.
• Performs assembly and packaging of instrumentation for sterilization.
• Performs decontamination, sterilization, and high-level disinfection of instrumentation and endoscopes based on specific instruction for use to ensure patient safety.
• Performs and records required daily quality checks on the sterile processing environment, instrumentation, and equipment. Collects coordinates, and audits documentation ensuring ongoing compliance with regulatory standards.
• Follows standards for handling instrumentation and equipment including AAMI standards and manufacturers instruction for use
• Serves as liaison and resource for sterile processing, perioperative services, and hospital and outside customers.
• Works closely with biomed, materials management, and supply chain to ensure supplies are available in an efficient and fiscally responsible manner.
• Collaborates with sterile processing trainer and manager to ensure continual compliance with hospital policy and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Two to three years Sterile Processing experience preferred
• Previous leadership experience preferred
• Sterile Processing Certification (CRCST or equivalent) and one additional Certification from the following list must be achieved within first year of employment.

Certified Instrument Specialist (CIS)

Certified Endoscope Reprocessor (CER)

Certified Healthcare Leader (CHL)

Certified Central Service Vendor Partner (CCSVP)

• Physical Demands
• Ability to move freely (standing, stooping, walking, bending, pushing and pulling) and lift up to a maximum of fifty (50) pounds without assistance.
• Category 1: Job classification is exposed to blood borne pathogens (blood or bodily fluids) while performing job duties

Work Environment

• Frequent exposure to sharp objects and instruments
• Occasional exposure to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock.
• Occasional high noise level in work environment.
• Possible exposure to communicable diseases, hazardous materials, and pharmacological agents.
• Occasional contact with aggressive and or combative patients.

Position requires compliance with department specific competencies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Scheduled FTE:

1

Location:

Wisconsin Institute of Surgical Excellence LLC - Neenah,Wisconsin

Overtime Exempt:

No

Worker Shift Details:

Days