SUP MED SUPPLY TECH(STERILE PR)

US-Department-of-Veterans-Affair; Birmingham (AL); Presencial; USD 65.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Birmingham, AL seeks a Supervisory Medical Supply Technician, Chief, SPS to lead Sterile Processing Service operations and ensure regulatory compliance.

The GS-10 position requires supervisory experience, budget oversight, and strategic planning to support patient care across the facility's sterile processing functions.

Formación

• Experience implementing regulations, policies, and procedures to manage SPS operations.
• Ability to evaluate new products and equipment and make recommendations.
• Ability to supervise, plan, assign, evaluate work, and manage staff issues.
• Ability to integrate SPS managerial duties with facility goals and mission.

Responsabilidades

• Supervise SPS operations and ensure compliance with regulatory mandates.
• Forecast, plan, develop and manage the SPS program and budget.
• Oversee staff orientation, training, and performance evaluations; liaison with departments.
• Ensure safety, regulatory, and accrediting requirements are met across SPS functions.

Conocimientos

Supervisory duties

Strategic planning

Interdisciplinary leadership

Fiscal data analysis

Regulatory compliance

Staff training

Educación

Health care related coursework (one year above high school)

Six months experience in SPS or related field

Descripción del empleo

This is a Supervisory Medical Supply Technician Chief, Sterile Processing Service (SPS position for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) in the Sterile Processing Service of the Birmingham VA Health Care.

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.

Basic Requirements:

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• English Language Proficiency - English Language Proficiency - You must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), and 7407(d)
• Experience and/or Education -
  • Experience - Six months of experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the work or provides an understanding of the work; OR
  • Education - One year above high school that included at least 6 semester hours in health care related courses such as sterile processing, nursing assistant, hospital corpsman, and operating room or surgical technician courses or other courses related to the position; OR
  • Experience/Education Combination - Equivalent combination of experience and education are qualifying for entry level for which both education and experience are acceptable.

Grandfather Provision. May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria).

Grade Determinations:

Supervisory Medical Supply Technician ,Chief processing GS-10

Preferred Experience:

In addition to meeting the basic requirements, to qualify for the GS-10 you must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-9). Examples of specialized experience include but are not limited to.

Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

1. Ability to implement and incorporate regulations, policies, and procedures to manage SPS operations
2. Ability to evaluate new product and equipment, develop options, and make recommendations.
3. Ability to perform a full range of supervisory duties, including assigning, planning and evaluation work, recommending awards, approving leave, identifying training needs, and resolving staff issues.
4. Ability to integrate SPS managerial duties, which includes strategic planning of facility organizational goals and integration of SPS vision and values within the organizational mission
5. Skill to initiate and lead interdisciplinary groups in order to facilitate daily SPS functions.
6. Ability to analyze and interpret fiscal data in order to forecast resource and equipment needs.

Assignments.

The Chief has the overall responsibility for the supervision, administrative management and direction of the SPS. Ensures SPS functions are in compliance with all regulatory mandates. Forecast, plans, develop and manages the SPS program. Manages SPS personnel and serve as a liaison between SPS and departments. Maintains effective interdepartmental relationships, coordinates and resolves problems and ensures cooperation with other programs and services. Manages the overall SPS budget including determining resource needs, allocating resources, and ensuring proper utilization in productivity, efficiency and cost effectiveness of SPS operations. Formulates objectives, develops priorities and implements plans to support organizational goals. Ensures operations are in compliance with all safety, regulatory and accrediting requirements. Oversees orientation and training of staff.

Reference:

For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.

The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-10.

Physical Requirements:

This work is performed in various settings: decontamination, preparation, clean sterile supply (preparation) and in other services and departments throughout the medical facility/campus. The incumbent may be required to work in areas that are hot, cold, drafty and poorly lighted. The employee is subject to the possibility of falls, scrapes, cuts, bruises, and other injuries from material handling equipment. The work requires standing and walking during the entire workday and frequent bending and lifting of packages (occasionally weighing as much as 50 pounds). The work requires dexterity and visual acuity for manipulating, disassembly and assembly of instrumentation. On a regular and recurring basis, the employee alternates between a contaminated environment and a carefully controlled clean environment. The employee wears special clothing, hair covers, personal protective equipment and shoe covers that can be uncomfortably warm. The employee uses insulated gloves to remove carts from sterilizers. The employee is subject to burns from accidentally touching hot items. The hazards of working around minute quantities of sterilizing gasses are unknown. The employee often works around body fluids, mucous, excretions and bits of tissue, some of which may be foul smelling. Strong, unpleasant odors are encountered while decontaminating bloody or grossly contaminated instrumentation or reusable medical Devices. The work area is noisy due to the clatter of metal instruments, rumbling of carts and operation of pre-sterilizing equipment.