St. Luke's Health - Memorial Hospital in Lufkin, TX, paves the way for quality innovative health care in East Texas. With hospitals in Lufkin, Livingston, and San Augustine, St. Luke’s Health provides more than a quarter of a million patient services each year. Our facility is a collaboration between St. Luke’s Health and a team of specialized physicians focused on General and Interventional Cardiology, Sports Medicine, and Orthopedics, including Total Joint Replacement and Spine Care.
CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. & from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.
We offer the following benefits to support you and your family:
Position Summary:
Performs instrument processing activities, decontamination, assembly, sterilization (steam and sterrad)
and restocking of instruments to remote locations to ensure availability to areas providing direct patient
care. Ensures that personal performance and service quality levels meet or exceed customer
expectations and perceptions.
Position Responsibilities:
1. Prepare work area at beginning of shift
2. Maintains a clean and safe work area at all times
3. Participates in routine cleaning activities (i.e. sterilizers, surface areas, storage carts, etc.)
4. Transports and decontaminates all soiled instrumentation and equipment to a state of cleanliness, disinfection and disposes of all infectious items according to established procedures
5. Maintains customer focus and service responsiveness by answering incoming calls in a timely manner and responding immediately to emergency requests
6. Assures accuracy in the assembly and packaging of all necessary instrumentation, special trays and equipment for sterilization.
7. Inspects and lubricates all instruments and power equipment according to manufacture recommendations to insure cleanliness and proper working order
8. Performs all steam, sterrad and ethylene oxide sterilization activities insuring cycle and documentation accuracy
9. Labels, incubates, logs, and documents all biological indicators in a timely manner.
10. Operates all department equipment according to manufacture recommendations
11. Prioritizes work activities to insure all instruments are available as needed for scheduled surgical procedures on a daily basis
12. Follows established policies and procedures in the performance of all work activities in compliance with Departmental and regulatory agency requirements
Education Required
HS/GED
Licensure Required
BLS through AHA
Experience Required
None
Preferred
One year of experience OR Successful completion of a Sterile Processing Tech or Surgical Tech program from anaccredited school
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