CSPD Tech - FT Days

HonorHealth•Mesa, AZ

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The CSPD Tech is responsible for decontaminating, preparing, and sterilizing instruments, instrument trays, equipment, and patient-care equipment. The role includes assembling trays and case carts, documenting sterilization processes, and delivering surgical instrumentation and patient-care equipment to the Perioperative team. CSPD personnel are expected to meet departmental procedures and established industry standards and to incorporate the organization’s vision, values, mission, and critical goals into their work. The technician may also serve as a preceptor to staff. The position is based at Four Peaks Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, and is listed as full-time day work with a 4x10 schedule.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
The posting header states that two years of sterile processing experience is required.

Nice To Haves

Six months of sterile processing experience; or current enrollment in a sterile processing training program; or completion of 400 hours of a sterile processing program internship.

Responsibilities

Use chemical agents and automated decontamination machinery to clean and decontaminate instrumentation and medical equipment.
Assemble, prepare, and pack instruments; inspect them for cleanliness, proper function, breakage, and intact identification tape.
Assemble trays using instrument tray lists; locate and replace missing instruments and identify and label instruments that remain missing.
Contain, wrap, or pouch instruments and sets, selecting wrapping materials appropriate to their size, weight, and sterilization method.
Sterilize instruments according to prescribed procedures and guidelines.
Challenge sterilization processes using internal, external, and biological monitoring systems.
Monitor, read, document, and interpret parameters for sterilization processes to ensure proper function and process validation.
Maintain appropriate load configurations and instrument flow through sterilization; prioritize instrument needs using the instrument needs list.
Pick case carts according to resource-map requisitions and document deficiencies on the daily case-cart needs list.
Complete the case-cart needs list before case-cart utilization.
Order sterile supplies from logistics as needed to maintain inventory.
Pick cases, stock the sterile storage area, and return sterile supplies to inventory.
Collaborate with perioperative sterile-core personnel to determine priorities and maintain flow in the sterile storage area.
Deliver surgical instrumentation and patient-care equipment to the Perioperative team.
May serve as a preceptor to staff.