Lead - Certified Sterile Processing Technician

Atlas Healthcare Partners•Grand Rapids, MI

About The Position

Corewell Health Endoscopy Center - Patterson, managed by Atlas Healthcare Partners, is a specialized outpatient facility located at 910 60th Street SE, between Patterson Avenue and Broadmoor Avenue, near the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, MI. This newly-built center is dedicated exclusively to outpatient endoscopic procedures and features five state-of-the-art endoscopy rooms designed for efficiency, safety, and patient comfort. Corewell Health Endoscopy Center - Patterson is committed to delivering high-quality care, clinical excellence, and exceptional service to the Grand Rapids community. POSITION SUMMARY The Lead Certified Sterile Processing Technician will ensure that all sterile processing departments across the organization will have the support and assistance needed to provide consistent and necessary safe patient care and service. The Lead CSPD Technician will be responsible for providing service and support to all Atlas SPD departments and SPD employees while assisting Atlas facilities with daily operations as needed. Daily operations include, proper care and handling of all general and specialty instruments including the cleaning, decontamination, instrument identification, maintenance, assembly, packaging and distribution, and sterilization of surgical instrumentation while utilizing standard safety practices.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED required.
Requires current national certification as a SPD Technician, Certified Registered Central Service Technician or Surgical Instrument Processor and relevant experience with sterilizing instruments which qualifies the candidate for the national certification exam or certified registration.
A minimum of 5 years equivalent job experience is required.
Must have mechanical aptitude with the ability to break down moving parts, clean, lubricate and reassemble, problem solve incomplete trays and missing instrumentation and have effective organizational, communication and human relation skills.

Responsibilities

Providing orientation, training, initial competency validation and annual skills validation for new and existing CSPD technicians within Atlas.
Maintenance and verification of certifications and continuing education for CSPD techs within the organization.
Determining areas of opportunity for improvement processes while assisting with the maintenance and development of necessary policies and procedures.
Evaluate and ensure that policies are consistent throughout the organization and are routinely followed within the sterile processing departments.
Develop and maintain quality control processes to ensure patient safety, compliance, and process uniformity within the sterile processing department across the entire organization.
Communicating and implementing any changes to regulatory and accreditation requirements for sterile processing to all Atlas facilities.
Note: Attendance and participation is required during all Atlas accreditation surveys.
Decontaminates, assembles, and packages all instruments following IFUs and 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.
Staff will 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 policies.
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.