Processing Technician

Job Title : QEC Processing Technician

FLSA Status : Non-Exempt

About us

Physicians East, P.A.is a team of skilled healthcare professionals united to meet the challenge of delivering quality, cost-efficient, comprehensive healthcare to the people of Eastern North Carolina.

Location & commitments

Full-time based at our Greenville location in the Quadrangle Endoscopy Center, Monday-Friday, 7a.m. - 3 p.m.

Overtime may be required to ensure patients are taken care, tasks are completed, and calls are returned in a timely manner.

Supervision Received : Reports to Clinical Supervisor; Operations or Clinical Manager; Director of Operations.

Supervision Exercised : None.

Typical Physical Demands : Requires full range of body motion, including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination. Frequent standing and walking or other means of mobility for extended periods of time. Lifts and carries item weighing up to 50 lbs. Requires normal visual acuity. Requires exposure to bodily fluids.

Typical Working Conditions : Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, toxic substances, ionizing radiation, medicinal preparations, and other conditions common to clinic environment.

About the role :

Responsible for the decontamination, prepping, packaging, and sterilization of all instrumentation processed through the department following established department procedures. Required specific skills also includes knowledge of decontamination processes, preparation, and packaging, sterilization techniques based on manufacturer recommendations, and storage of sterilized items, as well as knowledge of sterile technique, instrumentation, equipment, and sterile field set-up and interpreting policies, procedures, and protocols and reviewing performance in compliance with recognized standards.

Responsibilities :

(may include, but are not limited to)

• Prepares, disinfects, tests, assembles, sterilizes, packages, and distributes a variety of supplies, instruments, and equipment to be used in patient care, often operating complicated disinfection and sterilization equipment
• Sterilize scopes, processing and procedural tools and other applicable tools and equipment.
• Assists in preparing the procedure room prior to the patient entering the room. Cleans rooms between cases with correct aseptic technique
• Processes incoming supplies and equipment.
• Collects used equipment and supplies.
• Assist with handling specimens : Obtaining, Labeling, Transporting and Verifying.
• Transport used scopes to the reprocessing room.
• Conforms to rules of safety and infection control while performing these tasks and maintains compliance with acceptable hospital and regulatory agency standards of quality.
• Transport patients if needed.
• Prepares or assists with recordkeeping as needed.
• Always maintaining patient privacy and confidentially.
• Other duties as assigned by the Nurse Manager, Nurse Supervisor, Physician and / or Administrator.

Candidate requirements

Key Skills

Affirmative Action / EEO statement

Physicians East, P.A.is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity, which includes status as a transgender individual), national origin or ancestry, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information (including family medical history), physical or mental disability, or other legally protected status. Reasonable accommodation will be made for persons with disabilities during the application process and / or at the time of employment. Requests for accommodation should be made to the Human Resources Department as early as possible in the application / employment process. Contact HR Office at 252-413-6368 or email careers@physicianseast.com

Disclaimer

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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