Certified Sterile Processing Technician II

Job overview

Certified Sterile Processing Technician II in Thornton, CO is an onsite position with an hourly wage estimate of $19.94 - $29.91. HCA HealthONE Mountain Ridge is a 157-bed facility. The Certified Sterile Processing Technician is responsible for cleaning, decontaminating, assembling, sterilizing, and storing all reusable surgical instruments for patient care.

What you'll do

• Applies the principles of asepsis to ensure the prevention of infection and maintain optimum patient care.
• Monitors surgery schedules daily, identifying general, specific and potential needs for all cases.
• Inspects, assembles, and tests general and specialty instrumentation for proper functioning.
• Identifies malfunctioning instruments and replaces or reports instruments that need repair or that are missing.
• Assembles instrument packs and trays for sterilization.
• Wraps, seals and accurately labels items that are to be sterilized.
• Controls the entire sterilization process.
• Receives, decontaminates, preps, packs, sterilizes, documents, and stores supplies, instruments, and equipment.
• Ensures compliance with national standards and recommended practices.
• Operates and maintains all sterilization equipment, such as autoclaves, ultrasonic washer, and cart washer.
• Maintains accurate and complete documentation of all washing, sterilization, daily machine testing, proper testing after a repair of machine, temperature, humidity, air pressure, early release of implants, and eye wash station testing.
• Decontaminates, reprocesses and maintains flexible endoscopes as needed.
• Prepares, assembles and packages all instruments for surgery and other hospital departments.
• Prepares surgical sets, instruments, and trays according to prescribed procedures, ensuring that all instrumentation is correct and accurate.
• Pulls customized case cart sheets for all surgical procedures and prepares case carts.
• Inventories, maintains and supplies OR storage areas, specialty lockers, carts and equipment used.
• Responds to instrument needs during surgical cases.
• Audits trays for decontamination, washing, assembly, sterilization, implant usage, and instrument count sheets and tracks loaner equipment.
• Checks condition of packaging prior to sending to sterile storage, operating room, and/or Nursing Care unit.
• Creates and maintains accurate records regarding inventories, instrument set content, sterilized goods, biological test results, sterilization, and washing records for infection control practice.
• Maintains proper department temperature, humidity and air pressure parameters.
• Attends in-service presentations, including but not limited to infection control, patient safety, quality improvement, SDS and OSHA standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What we're looking for

Education

Highschool/GED Required

Experience

Highschool/GED Required

Skills & competencies

certified sterile processing technician

spt

hca healthone mountain ridge

thornton co

colorado

full-time

day shift

no weekends

no on-call

nursing support

Benefits & perks

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

About the employer

HCA HealthONE Mountain Ridge is hiring for this role. Industry: General Medical and Surgical Hospitals. Sector: 62.