Sterile Processing Technician I ES

Banner Health•Sun City West, AZ

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sterile Processing Technician I ES position is a full-time, evening shift role at Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center in Sun City West, Arizona. This role is crucial for ensuring operating room readiness by managing the decontamination, sterilization, and distribution of surgical instrumentation and supplies. The technician will work independently, contributing to patient care and the growth of the department. The position includes a weekend on-call rotation. Banner Health is a large, nonprofit health care system committed to making healthcare easier and life better.

Requirements

High school diploma/GED or equivalent working knowledge.
Mechanical aptitude with the ability to break down moving parts, clean, lubricate and reassemble.
Ability to problem solve incomplete trays and missing instrumentation.
Effective organizational, communication and human relation skills.

Nice To Haves

Complete national certification as an SPD Technician within one year of hire.
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides decontamination and sterile processing support to PeriOp Services, ED, ICU, hospital wide departments, clinics both on and off campus, and ambulatory surgery centers.
Responsible for the proper care and handling of all general and specialty instrumentation including the cleaning, decontamination, disassemble/reassemble, quality assurance, instrument identification, set assembly, packaging, sterilization, and distribution of surgical instrumentation.
Maintains required sterilization logs and quality assurance records relating to all equipment associated for the purpose of decontamination, HLD disinfection, and sterilization.
Interprets the surgical schedule and medical terminology as it pertains to scheduled procedures requiring sterile surgical instrumentation and disposable supplies needed.
Responds to emergent calls from the Operating Room and performs preliminary investigation, determining priority level of instrumentation requests and other hospital needs.
Differentiates surgical instrumentation that is surgery owned, consignment/loaner, hospital depart, surgeon, ambulatory surgery center, and clinics both on and off campus.
Completes necessary tracking of surgical instruments with a paper log sheet or computer process for instrumentation leaving the area.
Reports needed replacement of surgical instruments to maintain the inventory and support readiness of sets.
Utilizes specialized equipment for the decontamination, high-level disinfection, and sterilization of surgical instrumentation according to the device and equipment manufacturer’s recommendations and hospital policy.
Operates steam and hydrogen peroxide sterilizers of various types.
Operates automated surgical instrument washers, ultrasonics, flush pumps, visualization devices, and cart washers to include high-level disinfectors where supported.
Operates various quality assurance testing equipment associated to flexible endoscopic scopes, transesophageal ultrasound probes, and electro-surgical insulation defect detector for laparoscopic and energy provided surgical instrumentation.
Utilizes heat detection devices to allow steam sterilized surgical instrumentation to be released for use without risking burns to staff and patients.
Operates demagnetizers of stainless-steel instruments for ophthalmic and delicate cardiac surgical instrumentation for safe use on patients.
Utilizes various borescope devices to inspect inner channels of lumened surgical instrumentation and flexible scopes.
Maintains a clean and safe environment by adhering to Standard Precautions and Infection Control practices.
Follows protocols for proper donning of personnel protective equipment (PPE) while completing the decontamination process referencing IFU’s supplied by the manufacturers.
Maintains flexibility to rotate shifts and adjust hours as needed.
Maintains a work record of regular attendance, timely arrivals, and departures.
Maintains professional appearance appropriate to position and function.