Supervisor Sterile Processing Services

Position Summary

Department : Sterile Procesiing

Status : Full-time

Shift : Night

Title : Supervisor Sterile Processing Services

Baptist Health

Serving our neighbors for more than a century, Baptist Health Princeton Hospital in Birmingham is a 505-bed facility dedicated to a patient-first approach. A recognized leader in aortic valve surgery, COPD, heart attack, heart failure and stroke, we provide fast, lifesaving response times for patients with chest pain or stroke symptoms. Our full range of services includes comprehensive emergency room care; cardiovascular care, including structural heart and valve care; orthopedics, including rehabilitation; a comprehensive sleep center; a comprehensive bariatrics center, providing surgical and nonsurgical weight-loss procedures; and women's care for all stages of life. We have achieved Primary Stroke Center certification from The Joint Commission and accreditation from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and from the American College of Surgeons Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP). At Baptist Health Princeton Hospital, we are committed to contributing to the future of healthcare through our clinical research and medical residency program.

At Baptist Health, we're committed to providing you with benefits that go beyond the expected, including career-growing education programs and services to support you and your family through every stage of life.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Directs activities related to all aspects of the instrument delivery and on-site sterilization processes.
• Assists in departmental work processes. Provides a safe and cost-effective process for packaging and protecting instrumentation for sterilization, transportation, storage, and aseptic presentations.
• Responsible for ongoing sterilization efficacy testing to ensure that sterilization processes meet regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for presenting a positive representation of corporate and departmental services.
• Responsible for human resource management to achieve quality services and positive employee relations.
• Remains professional under stress and is responsible for communication interdepartmentally as well as intradepartmental to ensure that information is shared for effective daily operations.
• Works with the educator to ensure that ongoing on-site education is provided based on both individual and departmental needs.
• Coordinates staffing needs and reviews coverage requirements on daily basis. Responsibilities include assisting in interviewing, evaluating and coaching team members with the manager.
• Coordinates operating activities with other departments as necessary.
• Focuses on a proactive approach in anticipating and preventing potential problems within the department.
• Manages various human resources functions including hiring, work assignments, coaching plans, and performance counseling.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Baptist Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Baptist Health policies and procedures.

Other Related Functions

Qualifications

Education / Training

Associate degree. Four (4) years of directly related work experience may substitute for the Associate degree (in addition to the requirements listed in the Experience section.

Licensure / Certification

Maintains one of the following certifications :

Experience

Three (3) years of directly related work experience. Must possess working knowledge of sterile processing processes