Sterile Processing Specialist: Instrument Care & Sterilization

UofL Health; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

UofL Health is seeking a Sterile Processing Technician to support the Jewish Hospital - UMC in Louisville, KY. The role involves decontamination, sterilization, storage, and delivery of surgical instruments within a rotating shift schedule.

The technician will assist in maintaining instruments, operating processing equipment, and ensuring safety and regulatory compliance while providing excellent customer service to hospital departments and staff.

Qualifications

• Ability to follow policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with decontamination, sterilization, and sterile storage of instruments.

Responsibilities

• Answers telephone promptly and assists callers with items needed.
• Assembles supplies and places into case carts for procedures.
• Delivers sterile and non-sterile instrumentation, supplies, and equipment hospital-wide.
• Inventories and delivers back-up case carts to the Surgery Department as required.
• Maintains responsibility for returned instrumentation and packaging integrity.
• Performs cleaning, decontamination, inspection, and packaging of decontaminated instruments.
• Operates processing equipment and monitors sterilization procedures.
• Keeps department organized, neat, and well stocked while providing quality customer service.
• Acts as a preceptor for new employees.

Job description

UofL Health is seeking a Sterile Processing Technician to support the Jewish Hospital - UMC in Louisville, KY. The role involves decontamination, sterilization, storage, and delivery of surgical instruments within a rotating shift schedule.

The technician will assist in maintaining instruments, operating processing equipment, and ensuring safety and regulatory compliance while providing excellent customer service to hospital departments and staff.