Director of Sterile Processing - Sterile Processing Department Position Highlights: Position: Director of Sterile Processing Location: Oversight of 8 Endeavor Health Hospitals Edward (Naperville), Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook (Glenview), Highland Park, Northwest Community (Arlington Heights) Skokie and Swedish (Chicago) Full Time/Part Time: Full time Hours: 8:00am-5:00pm with 24/7 responsibility Required Travel: Yes What you will do: Abides by all of the applicable policies, procedures and guidelines of Endeavor Health and assists in the administration of Endeavor Health regulatory compliance. Ensures that actionable items are resolved in a timely fashion or escalated to executive level leadership as appropriate. Requires in-depth knowledge of sterile processing and high level disinfection. Builds effective relationships in order to create and maintain a cohesive team Effectively communicates, both verbally and written, performance expectations, instructions, department and organization updates to SPD leadership staff in addition to keeping local department heads and executive-level leadership informed of relevant information. Promotes effective team relations within the unit and across other departments in addition to fostering an environment that promotes strong decision making and problem solving by the staff. Develops strong relationships with other departments and senior leaders to promote staff collaboration, efficiencies and results. Ability to represent Sterile Processing in Department Head Meetings and in meetings with Operating Room/Offsite locations. Responsible for employee engagement of departments; includes implementing employee engagement action plan, mentoring, holding staff accountable, bridging connections with OR and other procedural areas Manages budgets within multiple cost centers. Responsible for high impact performance related to costs related to sterile processing across the system. Staffing supplies and services. Provides direction. Responsible for setting goals and roadmaps specific to staffing and budgets. Collects data and updates policies. Responsible for collecting and collating statistical data and graphs for required reports relating to task performance and productivity. Responsible for developing and/or updating departmental policies, procedures, goals, and objectives. Responsible for implementing process improvements based on data/information received via reports. Independently solves complex problems related to throughput and quality of instrument trays Responsible for organizing multi-disciplinary teams to ensure buy-in and understanding of issues and potential solutions related to sterile processing and high level disinfection.