Sterile Processing Technician I

HCA HealthONE; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 27,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) with company match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

HCA HealthONE Presbyterian St. Luke's in Denver is looking for a Sterile Processing Technician I to support surgical services. You will ensure instruments are thoroughly cleaned, sterilized, and ready for use, following strict infection control standards.

Responsibilities include assembling instrument packs, supervising sterilization processes, and maintaining documentation for quality control. The role requires attention to detail and teamwork in a high-paced hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Applies asepsis principles to prevent infection and maintain patient care.
• Follows universal precautions per hospital and OSHA policies.
• Maintains and inspects sterilization processes and equipment.

Responsibilities

• Applies the principles of asepsis to ensure the prevention of infection and maintain optimum patient care.
• Demonstrates compliance with Patient Safety Initiatives and National Patient Safety Goals.
• Monitors surgery schedules and identifies needs for cases.
• Inspects, assembles, tests and labels instruments and packs for sterilization.
• Operates and maintains autoclaves and other sterilization equipment.
• Decontaminates, reprocesses and maintains flexible endoscopes.
• Prepares surgical sets, instruments and trays per procedures.
• Maintains records of inventories, sterilization, and infection control metrics.

Skills

Asepsis

Infection control

Sterilization

Documentation

Job description

Hourly Wage Estimate: $19.88 - $27.84 / hour

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The estimate displayed represents the typical wage range of candidates hired. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range.

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a(an) Sterile Processing Technician I? At HCA HealthONE Presbyterian St. Luke's, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Job Summary And Qualifications

As a Sterile Processing Technician, you'll play a critical role in delivering safe, high-quality surgical care by making sure every instrument is thoroughly cleaned, sterilized, and ready when needed. Your focus on safety and attention to detail helps protect patients and empowers a team that’s committed to the care and improvement of human life – one surgery at a time.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Applies the principles of asepsis to ensure the prevention of infection and maintain optimum patient care.

Demonstrates compliance with the Patient Safety Initiatives, National Patient Safety Goals (i.e. infection control, hand washing, etc.). Follows universal precautions as required by hospital and OSHA policies.

Monitors surgery schedules daily, identifying general, specific and potential needs for all cases.

Inspects, assembles, and tests general and specialty instrumentation for proper functioning. Identifies tray type by contents of instrument tray. Identifies malfunctioning instruments and replaces or reports instruments that need repair or that are missing.

Assembles instrument packs and trays for sterilization. Wraps, seals and accurately labels items that are to be sterilized.

Controls the entire sterilization process. Receives, dsecontaminates, preps, packs, sterilizes, documents, and stores supplies, instruments, and equipment. Ensures compliance with national standards and recommended practices.

Operates and maintains all sterilization equipment, such as autoclaves, ultrasonic washer, and cart washer. Maintains accurate and complete documentation of all washing, sterilization, daily machine testing, proper testing after a repair of machine, temperature, humidity, air pressure, early release of implants, and eye wash station testing.

Decontaminates, reprocesses and maintains flexible endoscopes as needed.

Prepares, assembles and packages all instruments for surgery and other hospital departments.

Prepares surgical sets, instruments, and trays according to prescribed procedures, ensuring that all instrumentation is correct and accurate.

Pulls customized case cart sheets for all surgical procedures and prepares case carts.

Inventories,maintainsandsuppliesORstorageareas, specialty lockers, carts and equipment used.

Respondstoinstrumentneedsduringsurgicalcases.

Audits trays for decontamination, washing, assembly, sterilization, implant usage, and instrument count sheets and tracks loaner equipment.

Checks condition of packaging prior to sending to sterile storage, operating room, and/or Nursing Care unit.

Creates and maintains accurate records regarding inventories, instrument set content, sterilized goods, biological test results, sterilization, and washing records for infection control practice.

Maintains proper department temperature, humidity and air pressure parameters.

Attends in-service presentations, including but not limited to infection control, patient safety, quality improvement, SDS and OSHA standards.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” and “Mission and Value Statement.”

Benefits

HCA HealthONE Presbyterian St. Luke's, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA HealthONE, one of the largest and most comprehensive healthcare systems in the Rocky Mountain region, offers more than 170 care sites in the Denver metro area. Offering services across the continuum of care to meet patients’ total healthcare needs, HCA HealthONE includes seven acute care hospitals, a dedicated flagship pediatric hospital, a rehabilitation hospital, CareNow® urgent care clinics, mental health campuses, imaging and surgery centers, physician practices, home and hospice care, and AirLife Denver, which provides regional critical care air and ground transportation. Among HCA HealthONE’s acute care hospitals is Presbyterian/St. Luke’s (P/SL). P/SL has been meeting the healthcare needs of patients and their families from across the Rocky Mountain region for more than 140 years. Included on the P/SL campus is Rocky Mountain Children’s, a dedicated pediatric hospital, making the campus the only tertiary/quaternary combined pediatric and adult hospital in this region. P/SL is home to an award-winning cancer program including the Colorado Blood Cancer Institute, a solid organ transplant program, and complex orthopedics. Consistently among the Denver Business Journals’ list of top corporate philanthropists in the Denver-metro area, HCA HealthONE was named as one of the most community-minded organizations by The Civic 50 and contributed more than $1 million through cash and in-kind donations last year alone, along with more than $400M in federal, state and local taxes.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in costs for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

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