Overview

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center:

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care neuroscience oncology transplantation and more. Our team’s efforts have led to the creation of many research programs and initiatives to develop advanced treatments found nowhere else in the world. In our commitment to advancing standards in an ever-evolving healthcare environment our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients visitors staff and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care research and education. Our strong alliance with Texas Heart® Institute and Baylor College of Medicine allows us to bring our patients a powerful network of care unlike any other. Our collaboration is focused on increasing access to care through a growing network of leading specialists and revolutionizing healthcare to save lives and improve the health of the communities we serve.

Position Summary:

Supervise the activities that provide sterile products to any user cost center in the appropriate quantities and locations and ensure acceptable and predetermined quality standards. Supervise and coordinate work flow in the instrument room, decontamination, assembly, and sterilization of surgical instruments used throughout Preoperative Services, Endoscopy, Cathlab, and others.

Responsibilities

Position Responsibilities:

• Supervise inventory planning of surgical instrumentation for all procedural areas and Sterile Processing

• Promotes the principle of sterility & packaging integrity by ensuring all surgical instruments are handled in a manner consistent with principals supporting infection control & are in accordance with institutional and departmental policies

• Communicates with other perioperative leaders to ensure continuity of information

• Provides a safe working environment for fellow employees.

• Trouble shoots equipment malfunctions

• Ensure vendors are following proper protocol when delivering instruments to be processed and picking up instrumentation leaving the hospital

• Supervise product acquisition process; reorder, receive storage and distribution

• Select, develop, supervise and evaluate departmental staff, ensuring adequate daily staffing

• Analyze and coordinate daily surgery schedule and corresponding preference lists10. Supervise and coordinate work flow in multiple sterile processing areas

• Maintain high standards in customer satisfaction to meet customer service outcomes

• Provides data needed for planning, decision‐making, improving productivity, resolving problems and abiding by regulations.

• Ensure all ANSI/AAMI STD79 standards

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

Education and Licensure:

• CRCST Certification

Minimum Experience:

• One (1) year of experience in discipline with Bachelor's degree OR Five (5) years of experience in discipline OR Master’s degree and no experience

Pay Range

$26.51 - $38.44 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.