It starts with heart. That is what you will do each day. As Central Sterile Supply Technician at Monument Health, you can begin your healthcare career with no experience necessary. You will be valued as an essential team member providing compassionate patient focused care. You will discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, mutual respect, and— most importantly— a life-changing career. You will make a difference. Every day.
Compensation
Starting Pay Rate Range $20.16 - $23.17
Responsibilities
After sterilization process, consistently and accurately transfers sterile items to the sterile storage area, rotates supplies, and safeguards the integrity of sterile supplies through proper handling.
Accurately assembles decontaminated individual items, instruments, and trays. Accurately completes count sheet, tray menu, indicator strips, and sterilizing tapes as evidenced by observation and documentation.
Assists with monitoring and ordering non-sterile and sterile inventory to ensure replacement supplies are available when needed, as evidenced by observation and documentation.
Aware of proper care and handling of surgical instruments to prolong life of the instruments.
Maintains quality of trays and individually packaged items in circulation by replacing items that are worn out or in need of repair as evidenced by documentation.
Requirements
High School Diploma/GED Equivalent
Nice to have: Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST)
Responsible for ensuring surgical supplies and instruments are properly inventoried, decontaminated, assembled, inspected, packaged, sterilized, stored, distributed and tracked throughout the hospital.
Responsible for inventory, decontamination, assembly, inspection, packaging, sterilization, storage, distribution and tracking of surgical supplies and instruments in a hospital setting.
The Surgical Technician – Certified works collaboratively with the surgical team to facilitate safe, effective, and high-quality patient care in the operating room.
Responsibilities
Prepares the operating room by ensuring surgical instruments, equipment, and supplies are properly set up and available based on the procedure and physician preference card.
Maintains a sterile field throughout the surgical procedure, applying principles of Universal Precautions, asepsis, and sterile technique.
Anticipates the needs of the surgeon, passing instruments and supplies accurately and efficiently during surgical procedures.
Handles surgical instruments and equipment according to manufacturer instructions and hospital policy, including inspection, point-of-use cleaning, and sterilization.
Performs and documents sponge, needle, and instrument counts in collaboration with the circulating nurse to support patient safety.
Requirements
Technical School graduate of Surgical Technology or Practical Nursing program
Associate Degree in Surgical Technology or Applied Sciences
Performs a variety of instrumentation decontamination, sterilization, packaging, inventory, and distribution tasks according to established department policies and procedures.
Compensation
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
Responsibilities
Dissembles, cleans, sterilizes, reassembles and packages sterile supplies according to specifications and/or manufacturer instructions.
Follows department procedures to use appropriate sterilization method for various types of instrumentation.
Operates washers, sterilizers, ultrasonic machines, steam and ethylene oxide sterilizers, heat sealers, and additional equipment during sterilization procedures.
Adheres to instrument count sheets for surgical sets and case carts.
Covers and rotates trays and sets per sterile storage guidelines.
Requirements
High School Diploma or equivalent
Nice to have: prior experience processing surgical information