Supervisor, Sterile Processing

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your job is more than a job.

As a Sterile Processing Supervisor, you work behind-the-scenes, but you are a crucial part of healthcare outcomes and quality overseeing the sterilization of medical equipment, ensuring that sterilization procedures are performed correctly and in accordance with industry standards, and evaluating workflow and staffing.

You’re a multi-tasker with expertise in the assembly, transport, disinfection, calibration, and troubleshooting of surgical instrumentation and equipment.

Recognizing and identifying improvement opportunities, you embrace setting clear and visible team-wide goals because healthcare is nothing if not a team effort and you love coaching your team.

Now, you’re talking our language.

Your experiences, knowledge, skills, your empathy, compassion, personality, all of it adds up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this critical infection control leadership role.

Your Everyday

• Maintain and assemble various types of surgical instrumentation in order to provide safe patient care.
• Perform routine maintenance and cleaning of various types of surgical equipment.
• Disinfect equipment prior to operating room setup and prepare the operating room environment for next cases under direct supervision.
• Transport equipment between operating room suites and dirty instrument carts to sterile processing using appropriate infection control techniques.
• Report equipment malfunctions to the operating room charge nurse and / or manager.
• Maintain appropriate levels of equipment / supplies in the various surgical areas (including sterile cores and sterile processing department) and assist with returning overstock supplies and checking sterile supplies for out of dates products.
• Assist with pulling supplies and instrumentation for surgical cases.
• Assist with completing survey readiness checklists on a weekly basis and compiling performance improvement / quality control data as directed.
• Assist the surgical technicians with patient care without directly performing surgical technician duties (scrubbing).
• Follow all standards and guidelines outlined by LCMC and departmental policies.
• Assist with training and orientation of staff / students.

The Must-Haves

Minimum :

• High School Diploma / GED or equivalent
• 2 years Sterile Processing OR Scrub Tech
• Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) - Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HPSA) OR Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD)

Preferred :

Certified Surgical Technologist (CST)

WORK SHIFT :

Weekends (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way.

Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little come on in attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

About University Medical Center

University Medical Center, a world class academic medical center in LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, is the largest medical training center for healthcare professionals in Louisiana and has long served as the region’s safety net hospital for poor and underserved communities for +.

Learn more about University Medical Center’s legacy and our vision of becoming the epicenter of medical care, education, and research.

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work.

This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

Simple things make the difference.

1.To get started, take your time to fully and accurately complete the application for employment. Incomplete applications get bogged down and are often eliminated due to missing information.

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