Sterile Processing Technician (SPD) Lead

Advocate Health • Green Bay, WI

1d • $23 - $34 • Onsite

About The Position

The Sterile Processing Technician (SPD) Lead will act as a resource to employees, providing training, day-to-day work direction, and input on performance. This role involves assigning, monitoring, and reviewing work progress and accuracy, offering guidance on complex issues, and assisting with human resource responsibilities such as interviewing, orientation, staff development, performance feedback, and resolving employee concerns. The Lead will monitor general department operations, establish work schedules, issue daily assignments, and respond to service requests. Key responsibilities include receiving and processing soiled items, sterilizing instruments and equipment using various methods, performing quality assurance testing, ensuring proper care of high-cost instrumentation, and delivering case carts to the operating room. The position also requires taking immediate action in case of sterilizer failure.

Requirements

• Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) certification issued by the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA), or
• Sterile Processing and Distribution Technician (CSPDT) certification issued by the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc. (CBSPD), or
• Flexible Endoscope Reprocessor (CFER) certification issued by the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc (CBSPD).
• High School Graduate.
• Typically requires 3 years of experience in sterile processing.
• Must have thorough knowledge of sterilization principles and requirements, inventory and asset management, and quality assurance activities.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills necessary.
• Ability to function in a stressful and fast paced environment.

Nice To Haves

• SPD experience

Responsibilities

• Acts as a resource to employees, which includes training/orienting, providing day-to-day work direction, and giving input on performance.
• Assigns, monitors, and reviews progress and accuracy of work, directs efforts and provides guidance on more complex issues.
• Assists with human resource responsibilities, which may include: interviewing and selection of new employees, orientation, staff development, providing performance feedback, resolution of employee concerns, and employee morale.
• Monitors general department operations, establishes work schedules, issues daily work assignments and responds to requests for service.
• Receives soiled and contaminated items in decontamination area.
• Sorts equipment, rinses as needed, places equipment through sonic tanks and washers, reassembles trays, performs safety checks, hangs and sorts instruments, wraps sets according to set policy, and wraps towels and basins appropriately.
• Sterilizes instruments and equipment using the aerator, gas sterilizer or steam sterilizer and operates glass dryer.
• Packages items in steri/peel as required.
• Performs quality assurance testing for all methods of sterilization to ensure sterility of supplies.
• Ensures proper care and handling of high cost instrumentation and equipment to include items requiring special handling, laser instrumentation, orthopedic implants, cardiac assist devices, endoscopic and microscopic instrumentation.
• Hand cleans miscellaneous instruments (Baxter pump, hypothermo units, etc.) and operates the cart cleaner.
• Checks incoming trays and follows up with departments as to missing instruments or parts.
• Receives or picks up case carts from central service, using physician's preference cards and delivers them to the operating room.
• Takes immediate and appropriate action if a question of sterilizer failure occurs.
• Ordering all instruments for the Main, east and occasional Kaukauna sites.
• Build and update tray list in computer program, SPM
• Log instruments ordered and that came in, in spreadsheets
• Request new instruments in ordering system
• Send out repair instruments
• Log repair instruments in spreadsheet
• Work with vendors and coordinators for quotes

Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs
• medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• adoption assistance
• paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED