What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sterile Processing Technician - Ambulatory Surgery Center position at Los Altos Surgery Center?
Travel to other centers will be required
About Us:
Los Altos Surgery Center has an immediate opening for a Sterile Processing Technician. The Sterile Processing Technician functions in the decontamination and sterile processing areas with responsibilities of cleaning, assembling, wrapping and sterilization of instrumentation. Included in these functions are daily monitoring and recording conditions of the sterilization process.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Minimum of one year experience in decontamination preferred
- Certification for Decontamination/Processing Technician preferred
- Communicates and works effectively with others
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Receives, decontaminates, assembles and wraps surgical instruments and trays sterilization
- Determines appropriate sterilization technique and prepares instruments and trays based on established policies and procedures
- Ensures sterilization packages and tray wraps contain appropriate instruments and indicators before sterilization
- Performs appropriate sterilization processes in accordance with departmental and hospital policies and procedures
- Loads and unloads steam and ETO sterilizers with prepared instruments, trays and indicators in accordance with departmental and hospital policies and procedures
- Ensures that instruments and equipment are clean, lubricated and in good working order prior to sterilization
- Assembles Operating Room case carts with specially requested items and delivers to Operating Room Suite
- Accounts for items received and distributed from sterile processing on a daily basis
- Records items sterilized, processing indicators and expiration dates in log
- Conducts daily and annual inventories of sterile processing supplies
- Delivers biological indicators to the laboratory for analysis of sterilization effectiveness after sterilization and maintains files of results
- Insures compliance with all department and hospital infection control policies and procedures
Pay: $21.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Travel reimbursement
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
Experience:
- Sterile processing: 1 year (Required)
Shift availability:
- Day Shift (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Anaheim, CA 92801 (Required)
Willingness to travel:
- 25% (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $21