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Position: Lead Certified Sterile Processing Tech - Medical Center

Talent Area: Clinical Support

Full/Part Time: Full time

Location: Houston, TX, US

Department: Sterile Processing

Shift: Evening 2:30p-11:30p

Job ID: 413044

We are looking for a Lead Certified Sterile Processing Technician, someone who’s ready to grow with our company. In this position, you will assist the Manager in supervising the efficient processing of instruments and sterilization throughout the Hospital.

Think you’ve got what it takes?

Skills & Requirements
• Required H.S. Diploma or GED
• Required CRCST - Certified Registered Central Service Technician by The Healthcare Sterile Processing Association or CSPDT - by the Certified Sterile Processing and Distribution Technician issued by The Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution
• 2 years hospital instrument processing required

Prefers 2 years leadership experience
• Knowledge of a wide variety of instrumentation used in the operating room and throughout the Hospital.
• Ability to operate all OR sterilization and processing equipment, to prioritize and organize, and to work independently with consistent supervision

"As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.“

Job Duties & Responsibilities
•   Processes decontaminated medical devices as they are received, according to established priorities, medical device IFU’s and best practices.
•   Ensures staff are trained in the operation of the decontamination equipment.
•   Receives instruments from the decontamination area and processes appropriately.
•   Performs physical and environmental duties as designated routinely, including cleaning workspace/instrument room/cabinets, emptying biohazards waste, monitoring sterilizers, and checking environmental monitors.
•   Completes sterilization processes.
•   High level disinfection.
•   Monitor completion of Quality Assurance Data
•   Ensure the department is adequately staffed daily, including weekends.
•   Collaborate with others i.e., OR coordinators BioMed, Supply Chain, for troubleshooting/ordering instruments etc.
•   Performs other duties as assigned, including other essential instrument room duties.

About Texas Children’s

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S.News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Center for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston. We have also created the nation’s first HMO for children, established the largest pediatric primary care network in the country and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is also academically affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

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