What are the responsibilities and job description for the Non Certified Sterile Processing Technician position at Cleveland Clinic?
Join Cleveland Clinic and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice. On our team, you will provide stellar patient care, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a meaningful career at one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.
As CRS Technician, you will manage general hospital and surgical instruments, trays and related materials. Your efforts to decontaminate, inspect, sort, assemble and store this equipment helps ensure patients receive sterile, safe and efficient care.
A caregiver in this position works from 2:00PM – 10:30PM.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
- Disassemble and clean all general surgical and hospital instrumentation and equipment per established procedure.
- Use appropriate chemicals for cleaning or disinfecting supplies.
- Handle contaminated instruments and supplies per established procedure to ensure worker safety.
- Inspect instrumentation and equipment for defects, functionality and cleanliness per departmental procedure.
- Sort and assemble instrumentation and supplies per instrument count sheets and established procedures.
- Select and use appropriate packaging materials and methods of wrapping and initial instrumentation per procedure for tracking purposes.
- Perform quality assurance monitoring per manufacturer's direction.
- Maintain complete and accurate daily logs and inform supervisors and/or appropriate department of potential and/or needed repairs.
- Ensure stored instrumentation and equipment are available and in working order.
- Store instrumentation and equipment providing optimum sterility and/or infection control conditions per established AAMI, AORN and APIC standards.
- Handle and rotate stock per departmental policies.
- Issue supplies as ordered, complete all charge forms as necessary, order supplies as necessary, stock specialty and case carts.
- Complete 90 days of on the job training to learn the basic skills and departmental policies
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
- High School Diploma/GED
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
- Registered Certified Central Service Tech
- One year of Central Service Tech or closely related field experience
- One to two years of hospital, manufacturing or medical experience
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Physical Requirements:
- Lifting objects up to 40 pounds and pushing, pulling and navigating carts up to 400 pounds
- Dexterity sufficient to perform day to day instrument counting, sorting and assembly
- Corrected hearing and vision to normal range
- Working under stressful conditions
- Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids
- Ability to perform duties while walking, standing, stooping and lifting
- Standing and walking for extended periods of time
- Ability to distinguish colors to utilize color-coded systems used for instrument identification
- Medium Work, exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects
- Physical Demand requirements in excess of those for Light Work
Personal Protective Equipment:
- Follow standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required
Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000
