(Archived) Sterile Processing Tech opening

Large hospital in Coos Bay OR looking to hire a Sterile Processing Technician asap!

Surrounded by the Pacific shoreline with its beautiful dunes and lovely beaches, Oregon’s Adventure Coast is located between the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area on the North and Shore Acres State Park, an impressive botanical garden on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, on the South. The area features a variety of outdoor activities including fishing, clamming, wildlife, bird watching, sea lion and whale watching, tours, cycling, and 4-wheel rides in the dunes. The Port of Coos Bay is an active commercial area.

The Coos Bay area also offers a wide range of shopping, entertainment and dining facilities such as Pony Village Shopping Mall, renovated downtown Coos Bay, antique, myrtle wood and gift shops, theatres, and an art museum and gallery.

General job duties. Types of procedures required.

Ensures the instruments, carts and trays are stocked, sterilized, sanitized and documented for use in the operating room and other departments.

• Retrieves, cleans, disinfects, decontaminates and terminally processes items from user departments
• Sets up case carts
• Sets up trays and instrument sets
• Cleans operating rooms between/after cases
• Inventories and orders supplies for Sterile Processing case cart room
• Runs biological and chemical tests at appropriate times and accurately documents and interprets all sterilization records
• Oversees and ensures accuracy of sterilization records for the department
• Assists OR crews during the day/evening shift with urgent reprocessing needs or operating room staff requests in the operating room (i.e. opening trays, other support functions)
• Maintains documentation of new instrument/equipment location, use, method of cleaning
• Identifies and replaces worn or broken instruments and tags with instructions for repair and notifies OR staff and logs all instruments out for repair
• Transports and transfers patients as needed
• Receives outside instrumentation from other care providers and assumes responsibility for documentation and processing
• Obtains major equipment repair as needed
• Performs in-service education to ensure that all Central Services Technicians are properly trained on new or existing procedures

EXPERIENCE

(• Minimum of two years in Central Services sterilizing experience and/or OR Instrument Technician

• Minimum of 6 months healthcare supply experience preferred
• American Heart Association Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support (BLS)
• CRCST certification required