About Us
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
Sterile Processing Technician Non Certified
Dept: Sterile Processing
Hours per pay period: 0
Schedule: Varied
Position Summary: Performs and participates in decontamination, cleaning, assembling, packaging, scanning, sterilization, storage and distribution of reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities as Assigned:
- Decontaminates and sterilizes instruments, medical supplies and equipment, and assembles, wraps and sterilizes trays of instruments. Follows proper standard precautions while in decontamination and sterilization areas.
- Monitors biological and chemical wash solution to ensure quality and consistency for decontamination of instruments and medical equipment.
- Sorts mismatched sets of instruments, trays, and medical equipment and makes them available to sterile processing customers in a timely manner.
- Restocks, labels, and maintains inventory, submits requisitions, collects and distributes instruments, trays, crash carts, and facility medical equipment.
5. Performs environmental maintenance duties and assists in maintaining inventory levels in sterile processing, the operating room, and in equipment storage areas.
6. Verifies that equipment functions properly, requisitions for equipment maintenance, repair or replacement, and removes defective equipment.
7. Assists with maintaining established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, and quality improvement, safety, and environmental and infection control standards.
8. Performs other related duties as required and directed.
Qualifications:
Required:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Completion of approved sterile processing course.
· Certification required within one year from hire as certified by the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD) or Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA) as a technician.
Preferred:
- Prior experience in sterile processing preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
1. Demonstrates expertise in sterile service operations; including the ability to operate all processing equipment, perform required sterilization verification tests and maintain accurate records.
2. Demonstrates understanding and practice of aseptic technique, decontamination, processing and sterilization techniques, inventory and distribution, infection control and quality assurance as it relates to sterile processing services.
Position/Subsidiary Specific:
Physical Requirements: (X)
Additional requirements detail available upon request
__ Sedentary Work: Lifting 10 pounds maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying such
articles as dockets, ledgers, and small tools. Although sedentary job is defined as one which
involves sitting, a certain amount of walking and standing is often necessary in carrying out
job duties. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and
other sedentary criteria are met.
__ Light Work: Lifting 20 pounds maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects
weighing up to 10 pounds. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible
amount, a job is in this category when it requires walking or standing to a significant
degree, or when it involves sitting most of the time with a degree of pushing and pulling
of arm and/or leg controls.
X Medium Work: Lifting 50 pounds maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of
objects weighing 25 pounds or more.
__ Heavy Work: Lifting 100 pounds maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of
objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
__ Very Heavy Work: Lifting objects in excess of 100 pounds with frequent lifting and/or
carrying of objects weighing 50 pounds or more.
X-Ref: D.O.T. – U.S. Department of Labor – Employment and Training Administration
Equal Opportunity Employer
McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.
