Sterile Processing Tech: Precision Instrument Care

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System Inc; Baton Rouge (LA); Hybrid; USD 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

FMOL Health in Louisiana seeks a Sterile Processing Technician to decontaminate, assemble and inspect instruments, operate steam autoclaves, and perform testing under supervision. You will maintain records and help restock supplies to ensure safe patient care.

Responsibilities include cleaning and organizing instrument trays, recording test results, monitoring for equipment wear, and reporting issues. The role supports infection control and quality/safety programs within the Sterile Processing

Qualifications

• Completion of SPD apprenticeship or previous experience as SPD Tech.

Responsibilities

• Decontaminate and assemble instruments and restock sterile supplies.
• Clean instruments and prepare routine or specialty trays as requested.
• Operate and maintain steam autoclaves and keep records of loads and maintenance.
• Record sterilizer test results.
• Inspect equipment for leaks, worn parts, or disrepair.
• Check steriles for expiry and report defects to supervisors.
• Attend hospital in-service programs related to SPD work.

Skills

SPD experience

Job description

Job Description

Decontaminates, assembles and inspects equipment and instruments, accurately operates sterilizers, and performs biological and integrator testing while maintaining record keeping systems under direct supervision and guidance from the Supervisor. The Sterile Processing Technician rotates and restocks sterile supplies in accordance with infection control standards in an effort to ensure a safe and reliable atmosphere for patient care.

Responsibilities

• Operational Excellence
  • Clean instruments to prepare them for sterilization.
  • Organize and assemble routine or specialty surgical instrument trays or other sterilized supplies, filling special requests as needed.
  • Operate and maintain steam autoclaves, keeping records of loads completed, items in loads, and maintenance procedures performed.
  • Record sterilizer test results.
• Quality and patient Safety
  • Examine equipment to detect leaks, worn or loose parts, or other indications of disrepair.
  • Check sterile supplies to ensure that they are not outdated.
  • Report defective equipment to appropriate supervisors or staff.
• Team Member Experience
  • Attend hospital in-service programs related to areas of work specialization.

Qualifications

• Experience
  • Completion of SPD apprenticeship or previous experience as SPD Tech

About Us

FMOL Health is a leading health care innovator in Louisiana and Mississippi. We bring together outstanding clinicians, the most advanced technology and leading research to ensure that our patients receive the highest quality and safest care possible.

This commitment is grounded in a history that is more than 100 years old, but reflected today by our strategic vision of transforming healthcare through superior performance and excellent patient care.
In the last fiscal year, FMOL Healthhad:

• 1,747 Licensed Beds
• 44,592OR Procedures
• 10,827 Full Time Employees
• 1,915Active Medical Staff
• 229,296 Emergency Visits

As a nonprofit, mission-focused Catholic healthcare ministry, we give special attention to our citizens who are most in need. During the most recent fiscal year, we provided more than $39 million in unreimbursed care and community support to the underprivileged.

Our health system is one of the largest in Louisiana, with hospitals, clinics and physicians located throughout Louisiana and in Mississippi. In fact, we provide care to almost half of Louisiana’s citizens, and serve in Mississippi's largest metropolitan area. Because of our size and the partnerships we have with other local organizations, we are able to pool our resources and share cost and service efficiencies and learn from each other, thereby accelerating our ability to improve care and solve challenges.

Since our founding in Monroe, Louisiana in 1911, we have been blessed by the guidance of the Franciscan Sisters. Through their guidance and steadfast example, we have committed to assure that we perpetuate their healing ministry for another hundred years. It is a noble purpose we strive to fulfill every day.

Headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, we serve patients across Louisiana and Mississippi through a network of hospitals, clinics, physicians, elderly housing and integrated information system.Our health system has partnered with the State of Louisiana as it transforms its healthcare delivery system. The partnership includes inpatient acute care and primary care delivery in Baton Rouge and Bogalusa.

Following in the footsteps of our founders, the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, our team members and physicians are called to provide high quality care and compassion to all people, especially those most in need.

As we look to the future of our healthcare ministry, we chart our course by “going where we are called.”

FMOL Health team members will only communicate with job applicants using official @fmolhs.org email addresses. If you receive any message regarding job opportunities or your application from a non @fmolhs.org email address, do not respond and report the message as phishing / spam and delete it.

• Job Identification 44987
• Job Category Clinical_Support
• Job Shift Variable shifts
• Job Function Clinical Supplies
• Worker Type Employee
• Regular or Temporary Regular
• Requisition Schedule PRN (As Needed)
• Hours of Schedule (e.g. M-F 8a-5p) MONDAY-FRIDAY
• Department Sterile Processing-Lake Main Campus
• FMOLHS Company Code Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc

FMOL Health team members will only communicate with job applicants using [e-mail] addresses. If you receive any message regarding job opportunities or your application from [e-mail] address,do not respondand report the message as phishing / spam and delete it.