Lead Sterile Processing Tech

Description

Hourly Wage Estimate: 19.74 - 29.61 / hour
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The estimate displayed represents the typical wage range of candidates hired. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range.

Introduction

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a(an) Lead Sterile Processing Tech with Swedish Medical Center you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Benefits

Swedish Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Would you like to unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to the growth and development of our colleagues? Join the Swedish Medical Center family! We will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed in our organization. We are looking for an enthusiastic Lead Sterile Processing Tech to help us reach our goals. Unlock your potential!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Responsible for accurately performing tasks and activities related to decontamination, preparation and packaging, storage, inventory control, sterilization of instruments, trays, equipment, and supplies. Fills requests for supplies and equipment, and computer entry correctly. Performs daily maintenance and housekeeping duties as required. These task/functions/duties/responsibilities are performed to department policies and procedures. Performance of duties must sincerely and positively reflect consideration and concern whenever interacting with members of the medical staff and employees. Oversee daily work activities, assist in scheduling /staffing, flex schedule as needed and other related duties as required or assigned by manager

Equipment Listing:

• Computer
• Copy Machine
• Dumbwaiters
• Heat sealers / Incubators
• Washer/decontaminator
• Fax machine
• Steam sterilizer
• Eto sterilizer
• Sterrad sterilizer (plasma)
• Steris system/sterilizer (paracetic acid)

What qualifications you will need:

• Central Sterile Technician or Surgical Technician certification required. Central Sterile Technician certification completion within one year for Surgical Technician. (IAHCSMM OR CBSPD)
• High school diploma/GED preferred
• One to three years experience as an Instrument Room or Operating Room Technician preferred.
• Basic to advanced knowledge in the role of instrumentation as well as decontamination and sterilization of instruments. 
• Demonstrates good organizational skills. 
• Communicates positively and professionally with all internal and external customers.

Swedish Medical Center, part of HCA Healthcare's HealthONE family of hospitals, is located in the south metro Denver area where it has been a proud member of the community for more than 110 years. An acute care hospital with 408 plus licensed beds, annually Swedish cares for more than 200,000 patients with a team of 2,000 dedicated employees, 500 volunteers and more than 1,400 physicians.

With stroke door to treatment times averaging just 20 minutes, faster than any other facility in the world, Swedish serves as the Rocky Mountain Region's referral center for the most advanced stroke treatment. Swedish also serves as the region's neurotrauma and orthopedic trauma provider and is the area's only Level I trauma facility with a dedicated burn and reconstructive center.

Swedish Medical Center offers patients the highest quality care and the most advanced technologies and treatments in nearly every medical specialty including adult and pediatric emergency, heart care, neurology/neurosurgery, pregnancy and childbirth, orthopedics and joint replacement, cancer care, gastroenterology and liver care, gynecology and urology.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Lead Sterile Processing Tech opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Employment Type: Full-time