Detroit Medical Center is seeking a Centralized Sterile Technician for a job in Hamtramck, Michigan.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Centralized Sterile Technician
- Discipline: Allied Health Professional
- Duration: Ongoing
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days
- Employment Type: Staff
DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital, Michigan’s first Level I Trauma Center, helped pioneer the evolution of emergency medicine and currently has one of the busiest and most well-equipped emergency departments anywhere. The first and largest verified burn center in the state is at Receiving, and it is one of only 43 in the nation. Receiving also offers the state’s leading 24/7 hyperbaric oxygen program, Metro Detroit’s first certified primary stroke center, and the nationally recognized and accredited DMC Rosa Parks Geriatric Center of Excellence.
Summary Description
Coordinates the oversight of surgical instruments and supplies between the OR and Central Sterile Processing (CSP) to ensure that requested items are available and to help facilitate efficient case flow. Responsible for assisting in special projects and process improvement initiatives when needed. Promotes customer service and satisfaction through training, education, communication and resolution. Perform duties in accordance with hospital, TJC, CMMS, FDA, AORN, AAMI and other appropriate hospital and department specific policies and procedures.
GENERAL DUTIES
1. Assists the Operating room staff in preparing the OR suite for surgery by verifying instrument trays are available prior to case start times.
2. Assists in the transportation of sterile instruments and supplies to the operating room using appropriate standards and techniques. Perform package integrity checks on all items to make sure that the package and/or wrapper is not compromised.
3. Keeps track of case flow during the day, monitor instrument needs and notify CSP personnel in advance of any possible addition / emergent instrument needs. Must be able to resolve issues or offer alternatives when necessary.
4. Assist in removing soiled case carts or un-sterile instrumentation and scopes from the operating room to be returned to CSP for processing.
5. Assist with planning and coordination of instrument turnarounds with the CSP staff. Help communicate to the surgical team essential instrumentation information that may affect or delay surgery start time.
6. Verifies the instrument needs for the next day and that they have been cleaned, wrapped, sterilized and available for use.
7. Demonstrate a working knowledge and understanding of surgical instruments and be able to identify when instruments and broken, damaged or not functioning as designed. Report these issues to the CSP management team.
8. Communicate to the OR coordinators suggestions related to surgeon preference card changes based upon set usage to help ensure availability.
9. Working with the OR staff identifies instrumentation related to tray additions and reconfigurations, building surgeon specialty sets, etc. Report recommendations to the CSP Manager.
10. Responds to problem calls from Surgery throughout the day as required.
11. Perform required daily audits of completed and post-op case carts. Provide completed audit sheets to the CSP data entry clerk.
12. Participates in education of health care providers related to receipt, inspection, inventory, storage & distribution of instrumentation and medical supplies in Processing, function of specialty instrumentation, problem resolution of frequently encountered instrument function issues and instrument maintenance program.
13. Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:Minimum Qualifications
1. High school graduate or equivalent. Associates degree preferred.
2. Ability to read, write and comprehend the English Language.
3. 3 Years Sterile Processing Technician experience, 5 years preferred.
4. Certified Sterile Processing Technician through CBSPD or IAHCSMM.
Skills Required
1. Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with various hospital personnel and outside vendors.
2. Knowledge of surgical instruments as well as cleaning and sterilization processes.
3. Understanding of the care and handling of surgical instrumentation.
4. Ability to push, pull objects weighing up to 450 lbs. and lift objects weighing up to 50 lbs.
5. Ability to provide high level of technical computer support and use.
6. Ability to use windows based applications such as Excel, Word and other software in order to perform essential functions of the job.
Job: Surgery/Surgical Primary Location: Detroit, Michigan Facility: DMC Receiving Hospital Job Type: Full Time Shift Type: Day Shift Begin: 7:00 AM Shift End: 3:00 PM
Detroit Medical Center Job ID #4369-2305000629-21. Posted job title: Central Sterile Processing OR Liaison FT Days
About Detroit Medical Center
The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is the leading academically–integrated hospital system in Metro Detroit, and one of the largest health care providers in Southeast Michigan. During our 150+ years of caring for the community, we have been recognized nationally with top awards in many aspects of hospital operations and patient care. The DMC is able to achieve these awards because of our exceptional employees.
The Detroit Medical Center is one the largest academic medical centers in the United States, with a long and rich history of medical education, for more than 100 years. We train more physicians than any other hospital in Detroit.
Our evidence-based approach inspires confidence and spurs innovation. It ensures that we are making treatment decisions based on our experience, on the best available research and our understanding of each patient as an individual.
Our commitment to our patients
Our commitment to patient care and improving patient outcomes is part of everything we do. It’s our mission. It’s our promise to every patient and every family who entrusts their care to us.
To meet the needs of our community, we operate 8 hospitals and more than 140 clinics and outpatient facilities across southeast Michigan, including a nationally recognized dedicated pediatric hospital (Children’s Hospital of Michigan) as well as a nationally recognized rehabilitation hospital (Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan). We offer an inclusive, diverse and supportive environment. Knowing that we are better together, our teams are highly collaborative and integrated to deliver the high quality and compassionate care our patients expect and deserve. Staff members have a voice in forming our culture; one that is often referred to as “my forever family” and “colleagues who have my back”.
The DMC has a proud legacy of caring for the people and the families that call Metro Detroit home; they’re our neighbors, our friends, and our community. That’s why the DMC serves everyone in the community who needs us; no one gets turned away who comes to us for care. From local food drives to our long-standing commitment to educate and empower our community towards better health, you can count on the DMC. There’s a spirit of caring and togetherness that you will experience when you join the DMC family. We are a community build on care.
At the DMC, we are committed to maintaining an environment of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. If you need a reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this web site, please contact the DMC facility where the position is available, for further assistance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or status as an individual disability.
Employee Benefits
At the DMC, health and well-being are important to us, so we provide a range of benefits and options to help meet the needs of all eligible employees. In addition to a range of healthcare plans, including higher and lower deductible options, we offer dental, vision and an employee assistance plan. Basic life insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance are provided for free to eligible plan members. Employees can also choose to participate in one of several supplemental life insurance and/or disability plans, a legal services plan and an identity protection plan. For those employees who are looking for support to care for family members, we also offer child and elder care programs.
To help employees prepare for retirement, we offer a 401K savings plan, and an employee discount plan that includes discounts for a wide variety of products, including auto and home insurance and mobile plans.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Employee assistance programs
- Life insurance
- Discount program