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Summary:
The Central Sterile Supervisor provides direct oversight and planning of activities involved in the acquisition, storage, decontamination, cleaning, inspection, assembly, repair, disinfection of all medical and surgical instrumentation and/or equipment according to manufacturer’s instructions for use and standards of care.
Responsibilities:
1.Provides direct oversight of decontamination, cleaning, inspecting, preparation, packaging, sterilization, transport, and maintenance of surgical instrumentation and equipment.
2.Supervises teammates who process, store, distribute, issue, and stock surgical instruments and medical equipment to all patient care areas, clinics and specialty areas.
3.Maintains day-to-day operations, plans daily shift schedule or changes based on manpower scheduling and the needs of the areas serviced.
4.Coordinates daily work assignments and requests for schedule changes.
5.Ensures processes are efficient and adhere to safe and secure practices. This includes unidirectional clean to dirty workflow, PPE adherence, monitoring of airflow, and unit traffic, humidity and temperature.
6.Ensures teammates are aware of and adhere to relevant policies and procedures, including infection control guidelines.
7.Provides education to teammates on regulatory standards and compliance, current sterile processing practice issues, and safety standards. Ensures the delivery of a structured departmental orientation program to meet the needs of new Central Sterile teammates. Conducts team meetings and in-service training as needed.
8.Serves as administrator for the asset tracking system (tagging) and replace of equipment batteries. Maintains the assigned storage area for overflow of specified patient care equipment.
9.Ensures daily patient care area rounds are completed and documented.
10. Acts as a resource concerning instrument and equipment inventory.
11.Performs direct observation of processes to ensure departmental efficiency, quality, and compliance with accepted industry standards (i.e., TJC, AAMI, AORN).
12.Coordinates in-service schedule for new instruments and equipment. Ensures proper education and/or written instructions have been provided to teammates prior to processing.
13.Coordinates loaner instrumentation intake, processing and timely removal from site after use. This includes communication with associated vendor and operating room team.
14.Ensures quality testing is performed per guidelines. (i.e., steam, Vpro, IUSS, etc.).
15.Maintains adequate supply levels for all departmental supplies including emergency crash carts. Addresses supply issues in a timely manner with materials management.
16.Participates in interviewing, hiring, performance evaluations, and the progressive disciplinary process for Central Sterile teammates.
17.Develops and manages collaborative relationships with leaders, teammates, customers, and physicians.
18.Communicates and provides resolutions for any procedural problem that may impact the customer.
19.Promotes a positive work environment with open communication to include encouragement and counseling. Participates in activities to grow team member’s knowledge and autonomy.
Legal Employer: Wayne Health
Entity: Wayne UNC Health Care
Organization Unit: Central Sterile
Work Type: Full Time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Day Job
Location of Job: WAYNE MED
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
Full Time
Hospital
$55k-74k (estimate)
05/10/2024
07/09/2024
www.unchealthcare.org
Morrisville, North Carolina
15,000 - 50,000
Tom Murray
<$5M
Hospital
The UNC Health Care System is a not-for-profit integrated health care system, founded in 1998, owned by the State of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. It exists to further the teaching mission of the University of North Carolina and to provide state-of-the-art patient care. A distinguishing characteristic of UNC Health Care is its association with the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, a nationally eminent research institution. This relationship gives UNC Health Care a powerful pathway for moving the results of biomedical research from medical school laboratories to patient care settin...gs. UNC Health Care has been granted broad powers by the North Carolina General Assembly to assure its management flexibility and competitiveness in a rapidly changing health care business environment. The enterprise is governed by a board of directors appointed by the University of North Carolina.
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