Instrument Technician- Central Processing-Livingston Ambulatory Center (Multiple Schedules Available)

About this role

Overview:

  This position offers multiple scheduling options. All qualified candidates must be available to participate in a 12-week training program, scheduled from 12:00 PM to 8:30 PM, Monday through Friday, with rotating weekends as necessary. The available work schedules for this role are as follows:

- 9:00AM – 5:30 PM - 1:00 PM – 9:30 PM

  Job Description Summary:

  Cleans, sterilizes, and assembles surgical instruments, equipment, and supplies. Ensures quality, safety, and service for all hospital departments and off-sites requiring sterile supplies.   Job Description:

  Essential Functions: • Sorts, disassembles, and cleans surgical instruments and equipment. Prepares and sterilizes instruments using various sterilization processes. • Operates and maintains washing and sterilization equipment according to standard procedures. Inspects for and reports any malfunctions to the manager. • Performs quality control on all instruments and scopes, checking for visual damage, sharpness, cleanliness, and working condition. Maintains inventory and requests repairs or replacements as needed. • Maintains accurate and appropriate documentation of inventory and of daily production and quality control. • Collaborates with healthcare professionals to ensure that sterile instruments and equipment are available when needed. • Maintains assigned work areas and equipment in a clean, organized, and safe environment. Assists in training and orientation of co-workers.

Education Requirement: High School Diploma or equivalent, required.

Licensure Requirement: (not specified)

Certifications: • Certified Central Service Technician or ability to become certified within one year of hire, preferred. • Certificate of Completion from an accredited Surgical Scrub Technical program, preferred.

Skills: Working knowledge of standards of infection control.

Experience: Six months of related experience, preferred.

Physical Requirements: OCCASIONALLY: Chemicals/Medications, Climb stairs/ladder, Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens, Decision Making, Hot Temperatures, Lifting / Carrying: 21-40 lbs, Loud Noises, Power Tools, Problem solving, Reaching above shoulder, Sitting FREQUENTLY: Audible speech, Bend/twist, Blood and/or Bodily Fluids, Flexing/extending of neck, Fume /Gases /Vapors, Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Lifting / Carrying: 11-20 lbs, Patient Equipment, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Pushing / Pulling: 26-40 lbs, Squat/kneel CONTINUOUSLY: Color vision, Computer skills, Depth perception, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Machinery, Peripheral vision, Repetitive hand/arm use, Seeing – Far/near, Standing, Walking

Additional Physical Requirements performed but not listed above: (not specified)

"The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individuals so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under their supervision. EOE M/F/Disability/Vet"

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