Sterile Processing Technician II

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Job Type: Regular

Scheduled

Hours:

40

zabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork.

Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

We invest in you — personally and professionally.

• Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
• Retirement savings with employer match
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
• Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Sterile Processing Technician II within our Florence Sterile Processing department located within the Florence hospital.

Shift/

Hours:

Full Time 40 Hours, 2nd Shift

This position is responsible for ensuring that all surgical and procedural supplies, instruments, and equipment are properly inventoried, decontaminated, assembled, inspected, packaged, sterilized, stored, and distributed in a quality and timely manner in compliance with patient safety and infection control standards.
Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

• Collects soiled case carts from end users, breaking down instruments and equipment, and ensuring cart is clean, disinfected, and properly functioning for next case.
• Identifies and utilizes appropriate methods and solutions to sort, disassemble, decontaminate, rinse and disinfect instruments and clinical equipment.
• Utilizes manual cleaning and/or appropriate cleaning equipment as designated by the manufacturer.
• Handles each item with care to ensure proper cleaning and disinfection without damage to delicate, costly instruments.
• Operate and troubleshoot cleaning equipment including instrument washers, case cart washers, ultrasonic washers, and aqua box system. If in Endoscopy able to operate and troubleshoot AER or OER.

• Recognizes over 2000 instruments and 500 trays, including the name and use of each instrument and proper assembly to ensure functionality at the point of use. In Endoscopy identifies gastroscopes and pulmonary scopes.
• Utilizes specialty video or scanning system to check for damaged laparoscopic lenses, cords, or insulation.
• Consistently follows trays lists to guarantee proper assembly of all instrument trays.
• Demonstrates ability to use One Source and tray controller systems.
• Inspects instruments for cleanliness and function prior to packaging.
• Prepares instruments in container systems, wrapped packages, and/or peel packages as appropriate.
• Includes monitoring devices in each container demonstrating knowledge of sterilization method to be used.

• Selects sterilization methods appropriate to the instrument, tray or equipment.
• Ensures quality control of all items processed using multiple monitoring systems including chemical and biological indicators, channel checks, physical and mechanical methods.
• Recognizes and resolves issues that might impact the effectiveness of sterilization and/or High-Level Disinfection.
• Operates multiple sterilizers, including steam, Pre-Vac, ethylene oxide, Steris and Sterrad safely and effectively.
• Ensures quality control of all items processed through the use of multiple monitoring systems including chemical and biological indicators, Bowie-Dick tests, physical and mechanical methods.
• Maintains accurate documentation of all sterilization…