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Memorial Health · 3 weeks ago

Sterile Processing Technician

Savannah, GA

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

Memorial Health is committed to providing quality healthcare services and ensuring a safe patient experience. The Sterile Processing Technician plays a crucial role in cleaning, decontaminating, assembling, sterilizing, and storing surgical instruments, ensuring the highest standards of care are met.

Health Care

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Inspects, assembles, and tests general and specialty instrumentation for proper functioning. Identifies tray type by contents of instrument tray. Identifies malfunctioning instruments and replaces or reports instruments that need repair or are missing

Operates and maintains all sterilization equipment, such as autoclaves, ultrasonic washers, and cart washers. Maintains accurate and complete documentation of all washing, sterilization, daily machine testing, proper testing after machine repair, temperature, humidity, air pressure, early release of implants, and eye wash station testing

Prepares, assembles, and packages all instruments for surgery and other hospital departments

Prepares surgical sets, instruments, and trays according to prescribed procedures, ensuring that all instrumentation is correct and accurate

Pulls customized case cart sheets for all surgical procedures and prepares case carts

Inventories, maintains and supplies OR storage areas, specialty lockers, carts and equipment used

Audits trays for decontamination, washing, assembly, sterilization, implant usage, and instrument count sheets and tracks loaner equipment

Creates and maintains accurate records regarding inventories, instrument set content, sterilized goods, biological test results, sterilization, and washing records for infection control practice

Qualification

Central Sterile CertificationSterilization equipment operationSurgical instrumentation experienceAttention to detailDocumentation skills

Required

A High School Diploma or GED is preferred

A Central Sterile Certification is required in South Carolina hospitals and is strongly preferred in Georgia and Florida hospitals

Prior sterilization and surgical instrumentation experience is required

Benefits

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.

Company

Memorial Health

Memorial Health is a health care platform.

Founded in 1955

Savannah, Georgia, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.memorialhealth.com

H1B Sponsorship

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