Sterile Processing Technician: Instrument Specialist

UofL Health; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

UofL Health in Louisville, KY seeks a Sterile Processing Technician to support decontamination, sterilization, and sterile storage for the hospital's surgical services. You will work with instrument processing, case carts, and maintain instrument integrity.

Candidates should follow AAMI/AORN and CDC guidelines; responsibilities include assembling, packaging, delivering case carts, and serving as a preceptor for new staff.

Qualifications

• Understanding of policies, procedures and regulatory requirements and the ability to work independently in decontamination, sterilization and sterile storage

Responsibilities

• Answers telephone promptly and assists caller with items needed
• Assembles supplies and places into case carts for procedures
• Delivers scheduled case carts to the Surgery Department
• Inventories and delivers back-up case carts to required areas
• Maintains responsibility for returned instrumentation and packaging integrity
• Performs cleaning and decontamination duties to ensure instrument cleanliness
• Inspects, assembles and packages decontaminated instruments and sets
• Operates processing equipment used within the department and performs sterilization monitoring

Skills

Decontamination

Sterilization

Instrument assembly

Packaging

AAMI guidelines

AORN guidelines

CDC guidelines

Preceptor

Customer service

Job description

UofL Health in Louisville, KY seeks a Sterile Processing Technician to support decontamination, sterilization, and sterile storage for the hospital's surgical services. You will work with instrument processing, case carts, and maintain instrument integrity.

Candidates should follow AAMI/AORN and CDC guidelines; responsibilities include assembling, packaging, delivering case carts, and serving as a preceptor for new staff.