Director, Central Sterile Processing

Department Overview

The Director is responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of operational, financial, programmatic and employee related activities for Central Sterile Processing Department within all University Hospitals and Clinics locations. The Director collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to translate and implement organizational and division priorities into the department’s operation. This position encompasses a System role across OHSU, AHP, HMC and partner hospitals setting practice standards, conducting quality reviews, and ensuring adherence to established protocols and clinical best practices, and smooth integration into OHSU’s system.

 

The Director plans, organizes, manages and directs the activities of the hospital department(s). This position has continuous operational authority and responsibility for accomplishments of the hospital department goals and objectives.

 

The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership, strategic planning, and communication skills, along with a commitment to elevating sterilizing practices and ensuring quality outcomes across the new system.

 

This position establishes and maintains effective relationships with impacted department Directors, Managers and staff, physicians, administrators, other department and external agencies to identify expectation, determine variance, jointly identify targets, design or modify processes, and monitor and evaluate the results leading to additional improvement.

Function/Duties of Position

Strategic Planning:

• Leads the strategic planning and performance of the units.

• Partners with others to develop a department strategic plan that aligns with the organizational strategic plan and perioperative services

• Collaboratively formulates department objectives, goals and specific strategies related to initiatives.

• Distributes leadership to achieve strategic targets.

• Develops short and long-term goals that identify the target conditions.

• Communicates, implements, and evaluates the unit strategic plan.

• Coordinate with stakeholders across departments to ensure the partner hospitals support both patient care and operational efficiency goals.

• Works in collaboration with department leaders and system leaders to develop and implement new business strategies.

Operational Leadership

• Promote professional practice and the long-range goals of the organization.
• Assume operational responsibility for partner hospitals within the Central Sterile Processing Department, facilitating a seamless integration into OHSU’s system and processes.
• Serve as a System leader.
• Leads collaboratively across system hospitals to establish operational and quality standards.
• Partners with others to enhance healthcare and, ultimately patient care through interdisciplinary activities, such as edutain, consultation, management, innovation, technological development, or research opportunities.
• Applies systems theory with an understanding that how parts of a system relate to the overall system.
• Maintains knowledge of sterilizing practices, sterile processing technician roles and the roles and functions of other care team members (e.g. operating room nurses, surgical technicians, GI nurses, GI technicians, clinic nurses).
• Evaluates staff’s competency and intervenes to optimize performance and ensure safe, quality, effective and efficient patient care.
• Leads and practices patient/family advocacy and promotes patient-centered decisions and outcomes.
• Maintains visibility and open communication with the staff and department leadership.
• Communicates plans and decisions to department staff and other stakeholders.
• Asserts view in a non-judgmental manner.
• Ensures the care environmental supports the provision of safe quality care, and a workplace that promotes shared decision-making, accountability, autonomy and engagement.
• Reflects on own method of decision-making and the role of beliefs, values and inferences o develop leadership and performance capacity.
• Practices within professional-governance structures to distribute leadership and promote decision-making appropriate level within the governance structure. 
• Participate as a leader, facilitator, and/or member of leadership meetings/committees, forums and other organization-wide meetings.
• Prepares and delivers reports to operational leadership outlining progress toward meeting annual goals and objectives, to include performance related to finance, clinical activity, quality, safety, and human resources.
• Maintain records related to operations and services that are complete, accurate, available and in compliance