Materials Specialist II - Surgery - TNP - Sharp Memorial - Full Time

Sharp HealthCare•San Diego, CA

14h•Onsite

About The Position

The Materials Specialist II provides for the organization, maintenance, and purchase of equipment and supplies, ensuring the monitoring of the environment. This role involves maintaining records of equipment use, repair, and preventative maintenance, as well as ordering and tracking issue requests. The specialist assists with the preparation of the capital budget and serves as a resource to operate and troubleshoot patient care equipment. Key functions include budget management, equipment maintenance, equipment purchasing, operation of equipment, managing patient care supplies, and ensuring safety in the work environment.

Requirements

2 Years experience in hospital materials/equipment or purchasing departments or similar experience that can transfer to equipment/materials

Nice To Haves

Associate's Degree

Responsibilities

Provides for the organization, maintenance and purchase of equipment and supplies
Assures the monitoring of the environment
Maintains records of equipment use, repair and preventative maintenance
Orders and tracks issue requests
Assists with preparation of capital budget
Serves as resource to operate and trouble shoot patient care equipment
Demonstrates the ability to proactively communicate with other healthcare team members to provide information relevant to the financial issues associated with equipment and supplies
Provides financial data for calculating cost of use and ROI
Follows through as directed to follow up on issues and concerns identified as financial trends are analyzed
Participates in the budgetary process by communicating to the healthcare team concerns and issues related to new capital and supply purchases
Completes paperwork associated with purchase, contacts vendors for bids
Develops, organizes, and maintains records related to equipment in the areas of responsibility
Provides for appropriate turnaround time when equipment is out of service for repair or maintenance, following up as needed with other departments
Communicates with the other members of the healthcare team to ensure that equipment repairs and maintenance are completed in a timely fashion
Establish and monitor preventative maintenance schedules for equipment not covered by biomed
Demonstrates an understanding the capital equipment and equipment purchaser process
Is a resources when confronted with new or problematic situations with equipment or supplies
Collaborates with leadership and clinical staff in making decisions related to purchase of equipment
Arranges evaluation of equipment for capital consideration, assures availability and collection of evaluation forms from users
Provides education to staff by working with educator to arrange Staff inservices and review of technical manuals
Maintains department equipment manuals per JCAHO requirements
Maintains sufficient knowledge/skill to help troubleshoot equipment operations
Demonstrates ability to help teach equipment use to staff
In collaboration with other departments and unit Leadership team provides for the establishment and maintenance of par levels of patient care supplies to support the clinical needs of the units
Continuously assess the need for minor equipment purchase, rental to provide for the clinical needs of the patients served, assure delivery and documentation in time for patient care
Assures correct PAR levels of specialty stock
Completes specialty orders for implants, tissue and completes required documentation
Assess the work environment for safety issues and reports findings
Identifies educational needs for clinical staff to promote patient safety
Provides for appropriate documentation of education provided
Collaborates with manager to develop plan of action to resolve identified safety concern
Makes weekly safety rounds to assure compliance with JCAHO EOC standards, serves as department safety representative