Supervisor Sterile Processing

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.

CHI St. Joseph Health – College Station/Bryan TX Since 1936 CHI St. Joseph Health has been caring for the communities in Bryan College Station Brenham Hearne Navasota Caldwell Madisonville and Bellville. With the area’s only Level II Trauma Center the first Joint Commission certified Primary Stroke Center and the first accredited Chest Pain Center in the Brazos Valley; CHI St. Joseph Health is a leader in critical care and the largest provider of cardiovascular care in the region. As an integrated healthcare system CHI St. Joseph Health includes a comprehensive network of over 100 employed providers including primary care physicians specialists and advanced practice clinicians. The network includes more than 20 ambulatory clinics featuring primary care a freestanding Emergency Room Express Clinics and imaging and diagnostic services.

• 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 lists
• 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, decisionmaking, improving productivity, resolving problems and abiding by regulations.
• Ensure all ANSI/AAMI STD79 standards are being followed and Sterile Processing staff are educated to any changes

Required Education and Experience

• CRCST Certification
• 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

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training

• Extensive instrument knowledge and product/inventory management
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills