Central Sterile Technician Evenings - LOH

NYU Langone Health • New York, NY

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About The Position

NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital is hiring a Central Sterile Technician. The role ensures surgical instruments, exchange and par-level carts, instrument sets, peel packs, and emergency supplies meet established quality and quantity requirements. The technician delivers instruments to surgical suites and decontaminates, disinfects, tests, adjusts, assembles, inspects, prepares, packages, and sterilizes designated instruments and equipment. The position also involves processing and transporting mobile patient equipment, maintaining inventories and storage supplies, and ensuring materials are processed according to requirements.

The technician responds to telephone and in-person requests from internal and external customers, uses an instrument tracking system, and participates in continuous quality improvement. The role includes documentation and quality assurance activities, with infection control practices followed when transferring, storing, and transporting sterile packages. A flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays, may be required.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Certification from CBSPD or HSPA as a Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST), Certified Endoscope Reprocessor (CER), or Certified Flexible Endoscope Reprocessor (CFER); provisional certification is acceptable.
• If provisionally certified, complete 400 hours of hands-on training before the provisional certification expires.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions and perform basic mathematical calculations.
• Basic computer skills.
• Required license/certification: Sterile Proc & Dist-Cert CBSPD or Central Sterile tech (HSPA).

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of health care products, patient care equipment, surgical instruments, medical terminology, and their basic use.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Ensure instruments, exchange carts, par-level carts, instrument sets, peel packs, and emergency supplies meet established quotas for quality and quantity.
• Deliver instruments to surgical suites in a timely manner.
• Decontaminate, disinfect, test, adjust, assemble, and transport mobile patient equipment.
• Decontaminate, inspect, assemble, prepare, pack, and sterilize designated surgical instruments.
• Conduct inventories, order and stock medical disposable goods in storage areas, and ensure sterile processing of materials.
• Answer telephone and respond to internal and external customer requests, including face-to-face interactions.
• Perform decontamination, disinfection, and cleaning methods.
• Prepare, assemble, inspect, and package major surgical instruments.
• Perform sterilization processes, document them, and deliver sterile packages.
• Enter, modify, and search information in the instrument tracking system.
• Apply infection control guidelines when transferring, storing, and transporting sterile packages.
• Perform and document quality assurance processes and random product sampling according to protocol.
• Incorporate the organization's service standards into work duties.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Participate in continuous quality improvement.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness package.
• Financial security benefits.
• Generous time-off program.
• Employee resource groups for peer support.
• Holistic employee wellness program covering physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care.

What This Job Offers

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