Sterile Processing Technician - 40 hours, day shift

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

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.

Job Description:

Winchester Hospital is a 5x Magnet designated, Top 10 Massachusetts recognized 223-bed regional hospital that is the leading provider of comprehensive health care services in the northwest suburban Boston area. 

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.

Schedule: 40 hours, day shift, including weekend and holiday rotation

JOB FUNCTIONS

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.
• Round hospital units to collect used instrumentation and equipment.
• 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.  
• Performs quality assurance, maintains accurate inventory, documents inventory, equipment maintenance.

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

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS: 

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

              

Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) is an integrated health system dedicated to creating healthier communities — one person at a time — through seamless care and ground-breaking science, driven by excellence, innovation and equity.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

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