Central Sterile Technician I

Job Description

Welcome To

Welcome to Winchester Hospital, part of Beth Israel Lahey Health. Winchester Hospital was the first hospital in Massachusetts to earn Magnet recognition, the American Nurses Association’s highest honor for nursing excellence, three times. It has since received the recognition a fourth time. As the northwest suburban Boston area’s leading provider of comprehensive health care services, the 229-bed facility provides care in general, bariatric and vascular surgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, oncology, gastroenterology, rehabilitation, radiation oncology, pain management, obstetrics/gynecology and a Level IIB Special Care Nursery.

About the Job

JOB SUMMARY

Contributes to the Hospital’s mission to care, to heal, and to excel in service to our community by ensuring that all supplies and equipment needed for patient care is clean and sterile for use. This clinical-support staff position will have an impact on reducing patient harm by reducing the chance of infection and on physician satisfaction by providing the appropriate and accurate equipment and supplies based on physician preferences and requests, to streamline surgical procedures. 

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Required

High School Diploma or equivalent

Preferred

Graduate of a Sterilization Technician program

Experience

Preferred

• Sterilization Technician experience or related clinical experience
• Medical supplies inventory experience / Case Cart experience
• Assembly line / Manufacturing experience

Other Skills/Knowledge

Required

• For safety and quality reasons, must be able to read, write and communicate effectively in English with fellow members of the hospital team

Preferred

• Knowledge of medical terminology
• Basic computer knowledge
• Meditech / data entry experience

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS: 

Preferred:  Certification as a Registered Central Service Technician (C.R.C.S.T.)

OTHER JOB REQUIREMENTS:

On-call:   Weekend and holiday call rotation required

Schedule requirements:  Weekend schedule rotation required, other schedule adjustments may be required to meet department needs

K. REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to Manager of Central Materials Services
• Not responsible for supervising the work of others

JOB FUNCTIONS:

Consistent with the PROMISE principles and inherent in a hospital environment, employees must be flexible in meeting patients’ and the Hospital’s needs. While the list below describes the primary functions of this job, all employees at Winchester Hospital need to recognize that an essential element of their job is the ability to respond to unanticipated and/or changing situations.  This may result in assuming responsibilities or tasks, which are not on this list.

As part of the Central Materials Services and surgical services teams, this position:

• Scans equipment and instruments at each step in the sterilization/packaging process to accurately track equipment throughout the sterilization process and to identify equipment and instruments throughout the hospital organization
• Decontaminates equipment and instruments as the first step in the sterilization process, ensuring they are free of blood and tissue. Carefully examining items to verify they are in proper working order
• Round hospital units to collect used instrumentation and equipment
• Based on surgical services order sheets and physician preferences, assembles equipment/instrument sets for use in surgical procedures and providing bed-side patient care
• Sterilizes instruments and sets utilizing various automated methods including steam, ethylene oxide, and other gas methods 
• Coordinates case chart assembly based on the surgical services schedule.  Based on physician preference/pick lists assembles case charts ensuring all required/desired equipment, instruments and supplies are included 
• Performs quality assurance checks on equipment, instruments, sets and carts before released for use in patient care
• Rotates in all department functions
• Maintains accurate inventory records to ensure the department has appropriate inventory to meets the needs of the patient care teams and physicians.  Communicates inventory concerns promptly when identified
• Documents and communicates equipment and instrument defects promptly and works to revolve problems in order to meet the customer’s needs
• To ensure optimum operations and quality and long-term equipment maintenance and life, performs preventative maintenance, cleaning and quality checks on cleaning and sterilization equipment.

Shift

Full Time

Evening

About Us

Beth Israel Lahey Health is dedicated to improving health and wellness and making a difference in the lives of our patients, their families and all members of the communities we serve.  Formed in March 2019, Beth Israel Lahey Health is a patient-centered, integrated care delivery system providing a continuum of services spanning academic, tertiary and community hospitals, dedicated orthopedic and psychiatric hospitals, primary and specialty care, community acute care, ambulatory care, behavioral services and home health.  Beth Israel Lahey Health Performance Network is a unified joint contracting and population health management organization, jointly governed by participating physicians and hospitals.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.