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Gundersen Health System is seeking a Sterile Processing Technicianto join our growing and thriving organization. This is your opportunity to provide both customer service and effective engagement to patients while doing the work you love in the beautiful coulee region of La Crosse, Wisconsin

What's Available:

• 1.0 FTE (40 hours/week)
• Shift: 2:30p-11:00p, Monday - Friday
• Location: La Crosse Main Campus
• Department: Sterile Processing
• Shift differentials: PM - $1.00, Night - $2.00, Weekends $1.50

What you will do:

• Provide LOVE + MEDICINE to our patients through providing the best first/last impressions with top-level customer service.
• Partner with a team of providers, medical professionals, and managers who are here to support your success and that of our patients in their health journeys.

What you will get:

• Starting pay of $17.27/hour + more for experience!
• Support to grow in your career with access to our Career Development Center and Tuition Investment Program
• Top-rated retirement plan and healthcare benefits
• Departmental leadership that supports you as you do your best work.
• Work/Life balance to love what you do and where you live.

What you need:

• High School Diploma or equivalency + Graduate of an accredited Operating Room Technician or Central Service Technician program within one year from hire date or Three years of experience

Gundersen Health System is healthcare for neighbors, by neighbors. While we call La Crosse home, our system has 7 hospitals and 65 clinics in neighboring communities. Inside our walls and our neighborhoods, we deliver world-class medical care combined with the right amount of love. We call it Love + Medicine and it’s who we are.

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Job Description:

The Sterile Processing Tech is responsible performing decontamination disinfection, inspection, sterilization, and distribution of product to the Surgery and Procedures areas. Follows hospital, department and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) policies and guidelines to ensure the highest level of patient safety. Is responsible for using technologies such as copier/scanner, internet, handheld devices, electronic medical records, instrument tracking systems, inventory management systems and email. This role works within established procedures and guidelines and completes assigned tasks with a moderate degree of supervision. The Sterile Processing Tech is responsible for working collaboratively with the OR staff. The Sterile Processing Tech helps to maintain consistent and continuous workflow between the OR and Sterile Processing while practicing excellent customer service.

Major Responsibilities:
1. Maintain quality control by monitoring, reading, documenting, and interpreting, all parameters for all types of sterilizers to insure proper function. (Steam, ETO, Glutaraldehyde, and Steris)
2. Maintain system and department competencies by attending department meetings, in-services, and annual updates.
3. Maintain quality assurance by correctly utilizing biological monitoring applicable sterilization event.
4. Demonstrate accountability by providing high quality customer service, through communication and service to the surgical staff and peers.
5. Inspect all instruments and reusable items visually and manually. Isolate all items needing repair.
6. Review departmental policies and procedures by reviewing the manuals.
7. Order and puts away supplies and linens upon request as needed. Pick surgical case carts by following established Surgeons Preference Cards or Procedural Pick list/requisition.
8. Perform correct and appropriate data entry, understand and utilize computers for generating data and requisitioning goods.
9. Answer phone in professional, helpful manner by maintaining communication skills appropriate in a professional setting.
10. Dispose of all biohazard products per departmental procedures.
11. Assist with development or modifications in all supply system, instrumentation, and services as needed.
12. Rotate assignments through sterilization, decontamination, assembly, case carts and dispatch.
13. Work with high-level disinfectants and cleaning solutions and read and interpret appropriate MSDS accordingly.
14. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Education and Learning:
REQUIRED
High School Diploma or equivalency + c ompletion of an approved surgical tech or Sterile Processing tech program within one year of hire

DESIRED

Completion of Surgical instrument Specialist program within one year of hire

Work Experience:
REQUIRED
No experience required.
DESIRED
6 months Previous Central Service Processing experience.

License and Certifications:

REQUIRED

N/A

DESIRED

Certified Registered Central Services Technician (CRCST) OR Certified Sterile Processing Technician (CSPDT) through the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA)

Age Specific Population Served:
Nonage Specific (N/A)
OSHA Category:
Category I - All Employees in this job title have a reasonably anticipated risk of occupational exposure to blood and/or other potentially infectious materials.
Environmental Conditions:

Subject to inside environmental conditions (Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. For example, these conditions would include an environment with no air conditioning, working in a freezer or working near a boiler.)

Subject to noise (There is enough noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard)

Subject to hazards (Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts or vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding, exposure to chemicals, etc.)

Subject to atmospheric conditions (One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation)

Required to wear a respirator - occasional

Exposed to infectious diseases

Physical Requirements/Demands Of The Position:

Walking/Standing - Approximately 8 hours in a day

Stooping/Bending - Approximately 30 minutes to 1.5 hours total in a day

Squatting - Approximately 30 minutes to 1.5 hours total in a day

Kneeling/Half Kneel - Approximately 30 minutes to 1.5 hours total in a day

Reaching – Shoulder Level - Approximately 30 minutes to 1.5 hours total in a day

Reaching – Below Shoulder - Approximately 30 minutes to 1.5 hours total in a day

Reaching – Above Shoulder - Approximately 30 minutes to 1.5 hours total in a day

Balance – Right Leg - Approximately 30 minutes to 1.5 hours total in a day

Balance – Left Leg - Approximately 30 minutes to 1.5 hours total in a day

Repetitive Actions – Pinch Forces 0-25lbs,

Repetitive Actions – Grip Forces 0-25lbs,

Repetitive Actions – Fine manipulation 0-25lbs,

Lifting Floor to Waist 25-50lbs

Lifting Waist to Overhead 0-25lbs,

Lifting – Other 25-50lbs,

Carrying more than 50 feet 0-25lbs,

Carrying less than 50 feet 0-25lbs,

Carrying on the right side 0-25lbs,

Carrying on the left side 0-25lbs,

Pushing or Pulling 100-150lbs

I f you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267

Equal Opportunity Employer