Sterile Processing Technician Lead DT

NCH Healthcare System
Naples, FL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/5/2023 CLOSED ON 1/23/2024

Job Posting for Sterile Processing Technician Lead DT at NCH Healthcare System

  • Essential Job Accountabilities:


    • Job Summary:
      • The Lead Instrument / OR Technician is responsible for inventory management, distribution receiving, and sterile processing of instruments/equipment. They are responsible for the case care room in receiving, inventory, distribution; maintenance of sterile products, and accurately pulling case cart room in receiving, inventory, distribution; maintenance of sterile products, and accurately pulling cases based on doctor’s preference cards.


    • Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
        • Able to scrub cases in the OR as deemed necessary by the Surgical schedule and staffing.
        • Keeps knowledge of Surgical procedures up to date, including supplies, equipment and techniques.
        • Understands and follows department policies and procedures, acts as preceptor for staff. Responsible to insure all regulatory standards meet or exceeded.
        • Orders supplies for department, maintains par level and works to reduce inventory cost.
        • Insures proper use of PPE (Personal protective equipment) appropriate to the department such as impervious gown, face shield and gloves. 
        • Establish priorities for subordinates, assign work, and insure completion. Prioritizes needs list after reviewing daily schedule.
        • Schedules maintenance of and appropriately runs washer/decontaminator. Loads instruments correctly, operates and records load properly.
        • Appropriately uses Sonic Cleaner and Air Compressor.
        • Receives contaminated instruments and equipment. Disassembles instruments, mechanical cleaning, handwashing of instruments, micro instruments and rubber goods.
        • Ability to determine instrumentation that is heat/fluid sensitive that need to be hand cleaned and dried.
        • Coordinates receipt and sterilization of loaner instruments for specialties.
        • Assemble instruments serves as resource to staff for specialty trays. Identification, Inspection and assessment of all trays and repair needs processed.
        • Use of count sheets to assemble set. Maintains computerized tray listing system adding an editing list as necessary.
        • Utensil Preparation for all specialties can order and cross reference instruments to Premier contracts. Understands methods of wrapping and packaging, pouch packaging, dating items and paper wrapping.
        • Knowledge of types of sterilizers and how they function and cleaning of each. Knowledge of sterilization parameters, which includes proper use of, load control books, how to read the result and documentation, validates parameters met with the following: Steam, Gas Sterilizer, Gas Aerator, Sterrad, Steris System 1. 
        • Troubleshoots equipment problems during surgery and recommends substitutions as appropriate. 
        • Knowledge of Biological Indicators, including proper placement in sterilizer, quality control, incubations and reading the results, documentation and validation of process for the following: Steam Biological indicators, Gas Biological indicators, Sterrad Biological indicators, Flash Biological indicators and Steris System 1 Biological indicators.
        • Reviews future schedule and reconciles preference card to schedule. Knowledge of Surgi Server computer system and selection of preference cards. Pulls add on cases. Pull extras for specialty cases.
        • Physician preferences and location of supplies anticipates and coordinates specialty and loaner equipment needs.
        • Maintains knowledge of medical terminology and surgical case types in all specialties and is able to cross-reference similar procedures.
        • Takes initiative and volunteers to help others, prepare end of shift report, supervise staff and order new instruments as needed to maintain optimum function of department in a cost effective manner.
        • Restock supplies in the department as needed, this is to include medications, IV fluids and biologicals with the exception of narcotics.

    • Education, Experience, Qualifications:
        • Minimum of High School or GED required.

        • Successful completion of a ORT training program or CSBDT or CRCST.

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