Sterile Processing Tech, General Operating Room - Full-Time, Rotate
About The Position
Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial as a Sterile Processing Technician in the Sterile Processing department. This position is a 100% onsite opportunity and requires you to be based in the greater Chicagoland area. Under the supervision of the Director and Supervisor, the Sterile Processing Technician is responsible for all duties relating to processing sterile supplies, preparing instruments, and decontaminating patient-related equipment. General functions include monitoring sterilizers, maintaining sterilization records, issuing surgical supplies and instrumentation, maintaining inventory and PAR level data, ensuring attendance and punctuality, promoting effective interpersonal and interdisciplinary relationships, and maintaining professional conduct. UChicago Medicine has been at the forefront of medicine since 1899, providing superior healthcare with compassion. They seek employees with passion, talent, and commitment to advance medical innovation, serve the community's health needs, and move collective knowledge forward. UChicago Medicine is an equal opportunity employer, evaluating qualified applicants without regard to various protected characteristics. As a condition of employment, all employees must complete a pre-employment physical, background check, drug screening, and comply with flu vaccination requirements prior to hire, with medical and religious exemptions considered.
Requirements
- High school graduate or equivalent
- Completion of Sterile Processing Program
- Current certification preferred as a ‘Certified Sterile Processing and Technician” from the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD) – or must complete certification within 6 months of hire
Nice To Haves
- 1-year experience in an acute care hospital
- The physical demand ranges from constant sedentary work with a certain amount of sitting, walking and standing to occasional light work involving lifting up to and more than 20 pounds of force and/or excess of 100 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Responsibilities
- Fills request and issues surgical supplies and instrumentation
- Restocks and maintain inventory levels of surgical supplies and equipment
- Exhibits timely, satisfactory completion of assignments with minimal assistance
- Demonstrates a positive, supportive attitude to patients, families, and other personnel consistently in emergent and non-emergent situations
- Receives supplies from outside areas, ensuring that supplies entering sterile processing are free of external contaminants
- Maintains sterilization records
- Decontaminates patient care equipment according to hospital guidelines
- Performs biological monitoring of sterilizers and documents in log
- Sterilizes instrument trays within specified parameters
- Maintains confidential patient and department information
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
