Sterile Processing Technician

This position is 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 and timely manner throughout the hospital.

You will begin to train and validate competencies to allow performance of these duties independently and without close supervision.

Utilizes applications and technology to accurately facilitate record keeping in accordance with State and Federal regulations, promotes mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health, and abides by service behaviour standards, performs other duties as assigned.

May be required to work overtime based on business need, may be required to float to other departments (within the scope of competency and qualifications) based on business need, may be required to be placed on-call based on business needs.

Essential Functions

Level I

• 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 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.
• Perform basic inventory duties as required.
• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with providers, caregivers, and vendors.

Level 2

• 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.
• Perform inventory duties, such as locating equipment and consumable products at your facility to send to the utilizing department when required.
• Validate all basic competencies for Sterile Processing within our education system.
• Locate, read, and perform manufacturer's instructions for use (IFU).

Level 3

• 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.
• 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.
• Perform and document daily and weekly testing of decontamination and sterilization equipment.
• Work with medical equipment/instrumentation vendors to check-in, prepare, sterilize, and check-out requested equipment/instrumentation.
• 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.
• Teach, train, orient, and precept students and new SPD caregivers explaining concepts in addition to modeling correct and safe practice.

Skills

• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Customer Service
• Vendor Relationships
• Sterilization Techniques
• Equipment Operations
• Disinfecting
• Surgical Instrumentation (Level 2-3)
• Sterile Processing (Level 2-3)

Posting Specifics

• 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
• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• Department: Sterile Processing