Central Sterile Tech (certified tech preferred) in Central Sterile, Full-Time 1 p.m - 9:30 p.m. M-F

Northwestern Medical Center • St. Albans, VT

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Northwestern Medical Center’s mission is to provide exceptional health care to our community. Join our high reliability team! With “people” as one of our core values, valuing our employees is a top priority for Northwestern. We care about our employees, their families, and their overall health & well-being. We are proud to offer a generous benefits package, with recognized national carriers, designed to help our people stay healthy, balance work & life responsibilities, protect your assets & plan for a secure financial future.

The Central Supply Technician performs decontamination and sterilization of surgical equipment and instrumentation for the operating room, outpatient department, other hospital departments and physician offices. Additional functions include cleaning surgical suites, cleaning and packaging instrumentation, pulling supplies for surgical cases, and re-stock OR suites and sub sterile rooms.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Certified Central Sterile Tech preferred.
• Previous hospital or health care experience preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Certified Central Sterile Tech preferred.

Responsibilities

• Clean instruments to prepare and process them for sterilization
• Operate and maintain steam autoclaves, keeping records of loads completed, items in load, and maintenance procedures performed
• Organize and assemble routine or specialty surgical instrument trays or other sterilized supplies, filling special requests as needed
• Examine equipment to detect leaks, worn or loose parts, or other indications of disrepair
• Report defective equipment to appropriate supervisors or staff
• Check sterile supplies to ensure that they are not outdated
• Purge wastes from equipment by connecting equipment to water sources and flushing water through systems
• Prepare case carts according to preference cards
• Communicates with patients, team members, and management in an accurate and timely manner
• Applies critical thinking skills and considers alternatives
• Organizes multitask workload
• Prioritizes tasks/work
• Seeks assistance appropriately
• Manages self and resources effectively
• Acknowledges limits of experience and capability
• Utilizes equipment and supplies appropriately
• Regularly assess instrument inventory to ensure adequate par levels to support surgical cases
• Monitors sterilizing equipment autoclaves for optimum working order
• Maintain clean, orderly environment of care
• Ensures traffic control in "service areas"
• Performs tasks in a safe manner according to all policies/procedures
• Demonstrates the unit specific skills requisite for performance
• Adheres to AAMI standards for sterilizing and disinfecting instrumentation and equipment for OR and OPD
• Processes instrumentation appropriately: sorts, wraps, sterilizes
• Disperses OR linen supply daily
• Manages case cart system for daily surgical cases in CR by pulley supplies, instrumentation and equipment needed for those case

Benefits

• generous benefits package, with recognized national carriers, designed to help our people stay healthy, balance work & life responsibilities, protect your assets & plan for a secure financial future.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED