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Posted: 19-Sep-24
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Salary: Open
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Internal Number: 227459
Summary:
This Job is responsible for decontamination, cleaning, processing, assembling, sterilizing, storage and distribution of reusable medical devices and supplies used in patient care. The Job is also responsible for the assembly and dispatch of surgical case carts.
The CHRISTUS Children?s Hospital, established in 1959, was the first children?s hospital in South-Central Texas. Located downtown, this 190-plus-bed hospital serves more than 70,000 children annually from San Antonio, South Texas and around the world. The hospital (in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine) is the only academic children?s hospital in San Antonio. Our highly specialized services meet the unique medical needs of children, from Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care to Children?s Emergency Services, the latest treatments for deformities of the spine including titanium rib implants and halo traction, a Heart Center, a specialized asthma program, a highly regarded Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, and growing maternal services to include consultation, delivery, and maternal fetal medicine.
Responsibilities:
- Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
- Decontaminates and cleans reusable equipment/instruments in accordance with the departmental and OSHA standards.
- Assembles, sterilizes, stores and distributes medical devices and supplies for patient care.
- Adheres to procedures in accordance with departmental and OSHA guidelines when working with materials?Departmental standards are based on AMI- Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.
- Organizes, assembles and dispatches surgical case carts based on computer generated physician preference cards.
- Performs physical inventories of floor stock and SPD to ensure accuracy and integrity of system processes. Provides input on PAR levels. Works and collaborate effort with Material Management in the monitoring of supply usage, storage and organization of materials.
- Operates and understands inventory control devices and programs-Meditech
- Effectively communicates with inter/intradepartmental associates. Demonstrates ability to initiate, receive and relay calls and messages accurately.
- Demonstrates competence to perform assigned responsibilities is a manner that meets the population-specific and developmental needs of the members served by the department.
- Appropriately adapts assigned assessment, treatment, and/or service methods to accommodate the unique physical, psychosocial, cultural, age-specific and other developmental needs of each member served.
- Takes personal responsibility to ensure compliance with all policies, procedures and standards as promulgated by state and federal agencies, the hospital, and other regulatory entities.
- Performs all duties in a manner that protects the confidentiality of patients and does not solicit or disclose any confidential information unless it is necessary in the performance of assigned job duties.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
- Education/Skills
High School Diploma or equivalent required.
- Experience
- 6 to 12 months of practical application experience gained on the job in all facets of sterile processing considered.
Sterile processing experience preferred.
- Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications
- Certified Endoscope Reprocessor (CER) by IAHCSMM preferred.
- Certified Registered Central Sterile Tech preferred.
Work Schedule:
5 Days - 8 Hours
Work Type:
Full Time
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