Surgical Clean Core Tech 3

CAMC Health System•Charleston, WV

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Surgical Clean Core Tech cleans, processes, and sterilizes instrumentation needed on an emergency basis and maintains proper inventory levels in operating rooms. The role supports procedures by delivering and stocking supplies, providing needed items to nurses, assisting with room changeovers, and coordinating case carts with Central Service. The position monitors and cleans sterilizing and processing equipment, maintains related quality-improvement logs, and handles scopes and specialty instruments according to applicable processing requirements. It also checks sterility dates and specialty-item inventory, monitors OPA expiration and disinfection levels, and orders pharmacy supplies and noncontrolled medications for stock under the supervision of a clinical nurse. The employee must maintain competency through initial orientation and ongoing validation, including competency in aseptic technique. The role follows departmental scheduling and pay practices, including overtime, various shifts, and on-call situations, as well as organizational policies and required education.

Requirements

Two years of Surgical Clean Core Tech experience.
Central Service Tech certification is required; employees holding a current certification must maintain it and not allow it to expire.
Demonstrate competency through initial orientation and ongoing competency validation to perform tasks and additional duties independently.
For positions with direct patient contact, obtain or possess by the end of orientation and demonstrate developmentally appropriate patient assessment, treatment, or care knowledge and skills, including interpreting patient needs, knowledge of growth and development, and understanding the range of treatment needed by patients.
Maintain and document all applicable required education.

Responsibilities

Monitor steam sterilizers, including running, reading, and recording daily biological indicator results; submitting quarterly reports to Infection Control; cleaning sterilizers weekly; and performing minimal troubleshooting.
Deliver supplies from Central Service to operating rooms during procedures.
Stock supplies for individual operating rooms.
Flash sterilize instruments needed during a procedure that have become contaminated.
Collaborate with Central Service regarding missing instruments on trays.
Provide nurses with needed items while procedures are in progress.
Maintain competency in aseptic technique.
Assist with operating room changeovers.
Monitor the Steris unit, check solutions, and change them as needed.
Clean scopes between cases and process them in the Steris unit and appropriate washers.
Call Central Service for the next case cart and place the cart in the correct operating room.
Monitor quality-improvement logs for sterilizing and cleaning equipment.
Check sterility dates and inventory specialty items remaining in the surgery suite.
Check and record OPA expiration dates and disinfection levels.
Clean specialty instruments before sending them to Central Service.
Order pharmacy supplies and noncontrolled medications for stock under the supervision of a clinical nurse.
Maintain and document applicable required education.
Demonstrate positive customer service and co-worker relations; comply with attendance policies; participate in continuous quality-improvement activities; and perform work cost-effectively.
Follow organizational and departmental policies and procedures and perform work in alignment with the organization's mission and strategic plan.
Perform related duties as assigned and follow departmental pay and scheduling policies, including overtime, various shift work, and on-call situations.