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STERILE PROCESSING TECHNICIAN - 10030315
Duarte, CAJoin the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
Position Summary
We are seeking a detail-oriented and dedicated Sterile Processing Technician to join our team. In this crucial role, you will be responsible for sterilizing, processing, and maintaining supplies, instruments, and equipment in a fast-paced healthcare environment, ensuring the highest quality of care for our patients. This opportunity is for full-time, 10-hour shifts (4 shifts per week), and is designated for the evening shift (2:00 pm start time). In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for evening shift differential up to $1.90/hr.
Up to $5,000 Sign-on Bonus Available!
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Supply Sterilization: Perform the decontamination, cleaning, disinfection, assembly, and sterilization of medical instruments, supplies, and equipment using approved sterilization techniques and equipment.
- Supply Restocking: Replenish and maintain storage of supplies and case cart systems to ensure the availability of sterile equipment and instruments for surgical and medical procedures.
- Inventory Control: Manage inventory control procedures, including labeling and proper documentation of sterilized packages, and monitor inventory levels to meet departmental needs.
- GI Scope Processing: Process and maintain endoscopic instruments, including GI scopes, to the highest standards, ensuring patient safety and infection control.
- Quality Assurance: Report faulty equipment, deficiencies in procedures, and non-compliance with sterilization standards, contributing to the safety and quality of patient care.
- Educational Participation: Actively participate in educational programs and in-service meetings to stay updated on best practices, new technologies, and changes in sterilization protocols.
- Timeliness: Perform all duties efficiently and under urgent timelines to support surgical schedules and patient care.
Your qualifications should include:
- Post High School Vocational/Specialized Training.
- Experience may substitute for minimum education requirements.
- Certified Registered Central Service Technician or 1 year of sterile processing experience in an acute care setting.
- Maintains knowledge in surgical and medical technology through inservices/courses.
- BLS (through the American Heart Association), is required.
- CRCST (Certified Registered Central Service Technician) is preferred.
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location
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