Sterile Processing Technician
Intermountain Healthcare Inc.
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Job summary
Intermountain Health Riverton Hospital is seeking a Sterile Processing Technician to ensure proper handling of instruments across Level I–III procedures. You will participate in decontamination, assembly, sterilization, and inventory management for multiple surgical specialties.
Roles include teaching staff, validating sterilization processes, and collaborating with medical vendors. Strong attention to safety, documentation, and quality standards is required.
Qualifications
- Must attain Central Processing Certification from HSPA within one year of hire date.
- Experience with Sterile Processing Department software is a plus.
- Minimum qualification includes Level 1/2/3 competencies in Sterile Processing.
- Fluency in safety and quality standards per hospital/department procedures.
Responsibilities
- Disassemble, clean, decontaminate and disinfect basic to advanced surgical instruments.
- Identify, assemble, protect, wrap, label and sterilize instruments across multiple specialties.
- Perform, read, validate and record sterilization tests and parameters.
- Issue sterile supplies and durable equipment to hospital areas and campuses.
- Conduct inventory duties and communicate with providers and vendors.
- Train and precept students and new SPD staff.
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Education
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Job description
This position is a HSPA certified technician, responsible for ensuring that all basic surgical supplies, instruments and equipment are properly inventoried, decontaminated, assembled, inspected, packaged, sterilized, stored, distributed and tracked in a quality/timely manner throughout the hospital for basic procedures and 4+ surgical specialties including higher acuity procedures (i.e. Orthopedics, neuro, and Vascular). The technician is expected to lead an assigned area (i.e. decontamination, prep and pack, sterilization, case carts, or the center core) when required. The role also involves working with medical equipment/instrumentation vendors to check‑in, prepare, sterilize and check‑out requested equipment/instrumentation. The organization will provide training and document competencies to perform these duties independently and without close supervision. This position is expected to teach, train, orient and precept students and new SPD techs, validate all the Sterile Processing proficiencies in our education system, and utilize applications and technology to accurately facilitate record keeping in accordance with State and Federal regulations. The technician promotes the mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health, abides by service behavior standards, performs other duties as assigned, may have to work overtime or float to other departments or be placed on‑call based on business needs.
Full-time, Benefits Eligible. Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-4:30 PM with rotating holidays and weekends.
- Disassemble, clean, decontaminate, and disinfect basic surgical instruments.
- Identify, assemble, protect, wrap, contain, peel pack, label and sterilize/high-level disinfect basic surgical instruments.
- Print off a needs list and collect all the necessary items needed for surgical/medical procedures.
- Clean and correctly use CP equipment.
- Perform, read, validate and record all biological and chemical sterilization tests and parameters before making equipment available for use.
- Issue sterile supplies to areas of the hospital or regional campuses.
- Issue and receive durable, moveable clinical equipment.
- Perform basic inventory duties as required.
- Communicate effectively both verbally and written with providers, caregivers, and vendors.
- Disassemble, clean, decontaminate, and disinfect surgical instruments in alignment with proficiencies of our education system in addition to basic medical procedures and 2+ surgical specialties.
- Identify, assemble, protect, wrap, contain, peel pack, label and sterilize surgical instruments in alignment with proficiencies of our education system in addition to basic procedures and 2+ surgical specialties.
- Clean, troubleshoot and correctly use CP equipment.
- Perform, read, validate and record all biological and chemical sterilization tests and parameters before making equipment available for use.
- Print off a needs list and collect all the necessary items needed for surgical/medical procedures.
- Issue sterile supplies to areas of the hospital or regional campuses.
- Issue and receive durable, moveable clinical equipment.
- Perform inventory duties, such as locating equipment and consumable products at your facility to send to the utilizing department when required.
- Communicate effectively both verbally and written with providers, caregivers, and vendors.
- Validate all our basic competencies for Sterile Processing within our education system.
- Locate, read and perform a manufacturer’s instructions for use (IFU).
- Disassemble, clean, decontaminate, and disinfect surgical instruments in alignment with proficiencies of our education system in addition to basic medical procedures and 4+ surgical specialties including higher acuity procedures (i.e. Orthopedics, neuro, and Vascular).
- Identify, assemble, protect, wrap, contain, peel pack, label and sterilize surgical instruments in alignment with proficiencies of our education system in addition to basic procedures and 4+ surgical specialties including higher acuity procedures (i.e. Orthopedics, neuro, and Vascular).
- Perform, read, validate and record all biological and chemical sterilization tests and parameters before making equipment available for use.
- Perform and document daily and weekly testing of decontamination and sterilization equipment.
- Clean, troubleshoot and correctly use CP equipment.
- Work with medical equipment/instrumentation vendors to check-in, prepare, sterilize and check-out requested equipment/instrumentation.
- Print off a needs list and collect all the necessary items needed for surgical/medical procedures.
- Issue sterile supplies to areas of the hospital or regional campuses.
- Issue and receive durable, moveable clinical equipment.
- Perform inventory duties, such as locating equipment and consumable products at your facility or other facilities and work with SCO to send items to the utilizing hospital or department when required.
- Communicate effectively both verbally and written with providers, caregivers, and vendors.
- Teach, train, orient and precept students and new SPD caregivers explaining concepts in addition to modeling correct and safe practice.
- Help validate all our basic competencies for Sterile Processing within our education system.
- Locate, read and perform a manufacturer’s instructions for use (IFU).
- Communicate effectively both verbally and written
- Customer Service
- Vendor Relationships
- Sterilization Techniques
- Equipment Operations
- Disinfecting Surgical Instrumentation (Level 2-3)
- Sterile Processing (Level 2-3)
- Level 1 Pay Range: 19.50 - 26.48 USD Hourly
- Level 2 Pay Range: 20.07 - 28.59 USD Hourly
- Level 3 Pay Range: 20.88 - 31.09 USD Hourly
Yes
- Must attain Central Processing Certification from HSPA (Healthcare Sterile Processing Association) within one year of hire date.
- Central Processing Certification from HSPA (Healthcare Sterile Processing Association) required.
- High School Diploma
- Experience with Sterile Processing Department software
- CER or CIS certification through HSPA (Level 3)
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs. Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately. Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use. Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment. Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items. For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.
Intermountain Health Riverton Hospital
Riverton
Utah
40
19.50 - 26.48
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