Certified Central Sterile Technician

1. Maintains a professional image and exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers in accordance with our Service Excellence Standards and Core Values. 2. The duties of the Central Processing Technician require knowledge of cleaning/decontamination, preparation, sterilization, storage and use of items from surgical services and other departments within the hospital.
3. Transports instruments, supplies, and equipment to the decontamination area for processing according to established policies and procedures.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of the decontamination process, operation of the sonic cleaner, and operation of the washer/disinfector and cart washer.
5. Inspects, prepares, wraps, and assembles basket/container for instruments accordingly.
6. Demonstrates knowledge of the Sterrad and Steam Sterilizers. This includes loading, operating, unloading, cleaning, and the parameters for each.
7. Unloads cooling rack and storage of instruments.
8. Performs surgical case picking and issuing sterile goods.
9. Distributes supplies and instruments in a timely manner. 10. Maintains clean work area. 11. Notifies Supervisor of equipment failure, instrument issues, or other needs. 12. Participates in offered education, in-services, and attends meetings as required. 13. Adheres to Standard Precautions at all times. 14. Regular, punctual and dependable attendance. Clocing in per policy expectations. 15. Performs other duties as assigned.