What are the responsibilities and job description for the Surgical Reprocessing Technician - 40 Hours - Midnights Shift position at Henry Ford Health and Careers?
SURGICAL REPROCESSING TECHNICIAN
- Department: Sterile Processing
- Schedule: 40-hours per week, Midnight Shift, 11:00pm - 7:30am, Includes weekends
- Hospital: Henry Ford Macomb Hospital
Location: Clinton Township, MI
GENERAL SUMMARY:
- Under general supervision of the Coordinator/Manager/Director cleans, inspects, assembles, packages disinfects/sterilizes all surgical products used to support physicians and surgical team in the inpatient, outpatient departments, Operating room, Emergency Room, Delivery Room and satellites.
- Documents and monitors all sterilization processes in assigned areas including but not limited to: steam, ETOH, Sterrad and high level disinfectants.
- Ensures all monitoring methods are compliant with the standards.
- Supplies the needs of various departments requiring the services of the department by properly meeting and anticipating the instrumentation needs for pending cases for assembly of procedure specific case carts needs.
- Receives, unpacks, shelves supplies and stock while maintaining appropriate par levels with rotation sterile supply management principles.
- Works with the surgical specialty teams to ensure that the supplies for each patient are available when needed.
- Proactive coordination of preparing the case cart according to the surgeon's preference card for the supplies, equipment, instruments and implants needed for each patient.
REQUIREMENTS:
- High School graduate or equivalent.
- Completion of medical terminology course is preferred.
- Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with patients and hospital personnel.
- Computer skills.
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Completion of the 120-day orientation:
- Successfully completes department and hospital orientation process
- Competence maintained during evaluation year to include department standards, objectives, in service and continuing education.
- Central Service Certification. BCLS preferred.
Additional Details
This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.
Overview
Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers.
Benefits
The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is
committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to
race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height,
weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,
or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.