Certified Sterile Processing Technician Part-Time

Atlas Healthcare Partners•Glendale, AZ

15h•Onsite

About The Position

Banner Surgery Center – Thunderbird, managed by Atlas Healthcare Partners, is conveniently located on the Banner Thunderbird Medical Center Campus. This surgery center provides exceptional care and outstanding customer service to patients and physicians in the West Valley of the Phoenix community. It is adaptable to all specialties and features 7 operating rooms, 8 Preop bays, and 18 PACU Bays. The center prides itself on a friendly and efficient environment, ensuring patients are well cared for and procedures are on time. Atlas Healthcare and Banner Health have partnered to manage, operate, and grow Banner Surgery Centers throughout the Southwest, focusing on exceptional care and customer service while upholding core values of Integrity, Culture, Teamwork, Respect, and Results. The Certified Sterile Processing Technician is responsible for the proper care and handling of all general and specialty instruments, including cleaning, decontamination, instrument identification, assembly, packaging, distribution, and sterilization of surgical instrumentation.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED
BLS certification
Current national certification as a SPD Technician, Certified Registered Central Service Technician or Surgical Instrument Processor
Relevant experience with sterilizing instruments which qualifies the candidate for the national certification exam or certified registration
Mechanical aptitude with the ability to break down moving parts, clean, lubricate and reassemble
Ability to problem solve incomplete trays and missing instrumentation
Effective organizational, communication and human relation skills

Nice To Haves

Additional related education and/or experience

Responsibilities

Decontaminates, assembles and packages all instruments following established protocols as well as perform necessary repairs, reassembles and stores specialized surgical instruments.
Prepares all order requests as necessary for replacement parts for instruments and additional equipment as necessary or upon request of physicians.
Maintains a clean and safe environment by adhering to Standard Precautions and Infection Control practices.
Don proper Personnel Protective equipment (PPE), follows protocols for decontamination process referencing Instructions for Use (IFU) supplied by the manufacturers.
Identifies instruments for all specialties and assures proper function.
Follows protocol for repair or replacement of instruments that are not functioning properly.
Assembles and packages all instrumentation and sets according to dept. protocol.
Utilizes equipment according to the manufacturer’s recommendations and hospital policy.
Operates steam autoclaves, ETO and Gas Plasma sterilizers.
Maintains appropriate logs and records relating to the sterilization process, including the Ethylene Oxide Aeration Records, Sterilizer Load Records, and Biological Monitoring Records.
Responds to problem calls from the Operating Room and performs preliminary investigation.
Determines priority level of instrumentation and equipment requests and other hospital needs.
Directs services in a competent and professional manner while assuring OR priorities are completed in a timely manner.
Performs all functions according to established policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, as well as applicable professional standards.
Provides all customers with an excellent service experience by consistently demonstrating our core and leader behaviors each and every day.