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Job Title

Certified Sterile Processing Technician

                        

Location

Stuart

                    

Facility

CC Martin Hospital South

                     

Department

                      

Job Code

000473

                     

Shift

Day/Evening/Night/Weekend

                       

Schedule

6:00am-11:30pm

                       

Job Summary

SIGN ON BONUS ELIGIBLE - UP TO $2500

We are pleased to offer a sign on bonus for eligible new hires and rehires into certified and lead sterile processing technician positions. More details will be provided by the assigned recruiter once your application is received.

                         

Job Details

Grow your career in Cleveland Clinic’s award-winning Sterile Processing Department.
Join a diverse and prestigious organization where you’ll receive guidance and support as you develop personally and professionally.

As an SPD Certified and/or Lead Technician, you’ll directly enhance patient care and safety. You’ll be responsible for safe, efficient practices for decontamination, instrument assembly, wrapping and sterilization of all reprocessed instruments, distribution equipment and case cart management. As part of your responsibilities, you will:

• Build case carts, ensuring adherence to procedures.
• Maintain adequate levels of inventories and order and stock supplies.
• Perform case pull functions.
• Perform ordering, stocking and inventory control functions.
• Perform record-keeping functions, including processing, sterilization and quality assurance.

The ideal candidate:

• Is determined, committed, and hardworking.
• Works well in a team and can be relied on to do their job well.
• Thinks critically, has good judgment and can work with minimal supervision.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, challenging environment.

Sterile Processing Department Technicians receive ongoing support and training from supervisors who work closely with you and are involved in the day-to-day operations. You’ll learn how to operate the latest, state-of-the-art processing equipment. At Cleveland Clinic, you’ll get exposure to the newest sterilization tools and concepts and improve the patient experience while working in a supportive, close-knit environment.

Cleveland Clinic provides what matters most: career growth, delivering world-class care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the support to get there go hand in hand.

Job Responsibilities:

• Performs case pull functions.
• Determines appropriate case carts to be built for specialty procedures.
• Builds case carts ensuring adherence to procedures.
• Dispatches case carts to ensure they are available to surgical/clinical procedures.
• Performs record keeping functions, e.g. processing, sterilization, quality assurance, etc.
• Performs ordering, stocking and inventory control functions.
• Maintains adequate levels, inventories, and orders supplies; stock supplies.
• Participates in in-service education.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education:

• High School Diploma/GED. 

Certifications:

• Certified Registered Central Sterile Technician (CRCST) or Certified Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD).

Competencies (Complexity of Work):

• Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment.

Work Experience:

• Preferred one year experience in central service/sterile processing areas and successful completion of recognized training program with certification in central service/sterile processing.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to perform duties while standing, sitting, stooping, and reaching for long periods of time; ability to lift up to 25 pounds on a continual basis; ability to push, pull, and navigate carts weighing up to 200 pounds and manual dexterity sufficient to perform the basic functions of the job; exposure to environments of bacterial and viral contamination, and possible exposure to sterilization gases. 

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

                       

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our tobacco free and drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substance and nicotine. All offers of employment are follwed by testing for controlled substances and nicotine. All new caregivers must clear a nicotine test within their 90-day new hire period. Candidates for employment who are impacted by Cleveland Clinic Health System's Smoking Policy will be permitted to reapply for open positions after one year.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility. 

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