Sterile Processing Tech Lead

Sterile Processing Tech Lead

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. We are seeking a Sterile Processing Tech Lead for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care.

As a Sterile Processing Lead Technician, you will be responsible for providing asset management and support of surgical instruments and trays belonging to or consigned to the facility, in accordance with The Department of Health, TJC, OSHA, CDC, AAMI and AORN standards.

What you should expect to do in this role :

• Properly handles, decontaminates, assembles, sterilizes and returns for use all instrumentation in accordance with the above organizational standards.
• Supports daily operations of any activities that pertain to the processing of reusable instrumentation.
• Assists to develop and establish work flow, process improvements, daily work assignments, log documentation and management. Initial counseling with direct reports (Tech I and Tech II staff)
• Develops and implements educational offerings to SPD staff, direct supervision of Tech I and Tech II staff
• Accurate and timely reporting of shift details to incoming shift staff and oncoming Lead Technician.
• Delegate responsibility, assign lunch and break schedule, monitor and responsible for daily logs
• Demonstrates consistent success in working, communicating with, and mentoring diverse staff.
• Works with other departments, including Supply Chain, in order to provide all necessary items to perioperative services
• Reporting of broken instrumentation, and vital communication with team leadership and / or manager.
• Demonstrates extensive knowledge of instrumentation in multiple specialty areas.
• Participates in educational offerings and in-services in order to remain knowledgeable in the department and to remain in compliance with certification needs.
• Communicates in a professional manner to all staff and facility employees.
• Meet or exceed metric requirements including but not limited to : productivity goals, tray audits, zero dirty instruments, vendor policies and adequate rotation and knowledge of all areas of the SPD.

What qualifications you will need for this role :

For more than 100 years, Wesley Healthcare has provided exceptional care to thousands of families in Wichita and throughout Kansas and Northern Oklahoma. Wesley Medical Center is a member of the Wesley Healthcare network within Greater Wichita and has been an HCA Healthcare hospital since 1985. Our physicians treat more than 24,000 patients annually, making Wesley Medical Center the most preferred hospital in Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Additionally, our obstetricians and childbirth staff deliver more than 6,000 babies each year, more than any hospital in a 13-state region. Home to Wesley Children's Hospital, the region's first and Wichita's only children's hospital, we care for children in a unique space designed specially for kids and their families. And as a Level I Trauma Center and the only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in Kansas, we are prepared to treat any medical emergency, any time of day.

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Sterile Processing Tech Lead opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today! We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.