Sterile Processing Weekend Supervisor

Fair Oaks Hospital - Sterile Processing | Sterile Processing Weekend Supervisor | Weekend: Saturday and Sunday (14 Hour Shifts)

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and remote and hybrid career opportunities.

Sterile Processing Weekend Supervisor Responsibilities

• Looks at the OR schedule to prioritize instrumentation that is needed. Differentiates by specialty based on OR schedule. Provides alternate solutions when instrumentation is not available. In collaboration with the OR charge nurse, reviews OR schedules and add-on cases, anticipating needs and/or conflicts with instrumentation, and offers alternative instrumentation as indicated. Collaborates with Unit Management and sales representatives to coordinate loaner instrumentation and product evaluation/changes.
• Investigates problems/concerns and utilizes proactive problem-solving to meet customer needs.
• Collects and analyzes data to improve work processes and makes recommendations to resolve problems and facilitate desired outcomes.
• Performs intermittent quality checks on all employees.
• Observes work in progress to ensure that all equipment is fully operational, work areas are clean and orderly, and that proper supply levels are maintained. Coordinates and evaluates the repair, replacement, and refurbishment of all instruments and equipment with the unit manager and PCD. Promotes judicious and conservative use of supplies and equipment, identifies opportunities for cost reduction, and participates in the implementation and documentation of cost reduction initiatives.
• Responsible for daily review of all charts and biological/chemical tests from all sterilizers and following established protocols for positive biological results.
• Monitors and documents staff compliance with departmental attire policy, traffic control patterns, and standard precautions.
• Monitors and ensures proper handling of sterile supplies to include proper storage, rotation, and distribution. Oversees all production activities, ensuring that all items are properly decontaminated, assembled, and sterilized according to all standards while maintaining continuous workflow and timely distribution of products to customers.
• Manages the department in the absence of the PCD.
• Coordinates monthly and daily scheduling of staff, monitoring all processing areas, shifting resources as necessary to facilitate desired outcomes.
• Responsible for the teaching, mentoring, and precepting of all new employees; documents orientation results in the employee record.
• Identifies the educational needs of the staff and coordinates monthly and ad-hoc in-services accordingly.
• Oversees and assists team members in Sterile Processing, which may include but is not limited to, ensuring the team is meeting key-deliverables and quality standards, addressing and resolving challenges, managing and tracking performance, and assisting in time management and scheduling; escalates issues to senior leaders as needed. Assists with the monitoring of individual staff performance providing verbal coaching and counseling as needed; documentation completed an employee record. Assists with annual performance appraisals for designated employees. Participates in the interviewing and selection of new employees.
• May perform additional duties as assigned.

Sterile Processing Weekend Supervisor Requirements:

• Certification - Certified Registered Central Service Technician Upon Start, certification from The International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management (CRCST) or Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD), Certified Registered Central Service Technician with current certification; and, Certified Healthcare Leadership Within 12 Months Certified Sterile Processing Management (CSPM) or Certified Healthcare Leader (CHL) certification to be obtained in one year of assignment if not already certified
• Experience - Three years of Sterile Processing and/or OR Tech experience required, enrollment in sterile processing technician course, course completion within one year of being hired
• Education - High School or GED