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About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma/GED
• Current BLS (Basic Life Support) certification or obtained within 60 days of hire
• Certification in Sterile Processing and/or Technology required within one (1) year of hire date through either the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD) or Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HPSA).
• Clinical Competency required within 3 months of hire and every three years
• Strong oral & written communication skills
• Task and detail oriented
• Self-Motivated
• Ownership of project
• Advanced levels of hand & eye coordination skills
• Working level of organizational skills
• Computer skills
• Ability to Use aggressive patient management techniques to diffuse any patient/visitor/peer volatile situations.

Nice To Haves

• One (1) year experience in a healthcare environment
• Knowledge of infection control
• Knowledge of surgical instrumentation and care/cleaning
• Knowledge of sterile techniques
• Knowledge of inventory management

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all steps necessary for the proper decontamination, disinfection, sterilization and packaging of instruments and equipment for Juneau Specialty Clinic and Juneau Primary Care.
• Supports decontamination, disinfection, sterilization and packaging of instruments and equipment as needed for other SEARHC services as workload permits.
• Completely and thoroughly dissembles instruments and equipment to ensure the removal of any debris, surgical soil and bioburdens prior to sterilization or high-level disinfection.
• Performs multi-step procedures to effectively reprocess various instruments, including autoclaving.
• Performs and validates all cleaning of instruments using SEARHC policies and procedure, manufacturers’ instructions for use guidelines, along with the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) guidelines.
• Maintains records for all sterilization procedures that are processed including interpretation of all biological monitoring, validation of monitoring results, and quality assurance checks to ensure sterilization parameters are met.
• Effectively communicates with providers and staff to problem solve in the event of an instrument shortage and the need to substitute and/or offer alternatives.
• Verifies that equipment functions properly, requisitions for equipment maintenance, repair, or replacement, and removes defective equipment.
• Maintains competency in sterilization reprocessing by return demonstration and participating in continuing education as requested.
• Assists in the training and certification of members of the team on SEARHC sterilization process as needed.
• Performs additional supply handling duties for Specialty Care and Primary Care at ELMC as time permits secondary to sterilization/reprocessing responsibilities.
• Product ordering and stocking
• Inventory checks
• Other basic inventory management functions as needed.

Benefits

• retirement
• paid time off
• paid parental leave
• health insurance
• dental benefits
• vision benefits
• life insurance
• long and short-term disability
• sign-on bonuses for Registered Nurses, Hot Jobs and Certified Nurses Assistants