Manager Sterile Equipment

As our Manager, Sterile Equipment, you will manage the day-to-day activities related to the decontamination, processing, sterilization, and distribution of equipment and sterile supplies, ensuring optimal service delivery and patient care.

Every day you will develop a quality improvement plan, establish work process standards and performance goals, and take responsibility for staffing, training, performance management, compliance, and fiscal management of departmental assets.

To be successful in this role, you will possess strong leadership and operational management skills in sterile processing, expertise in compliance and quality improvement, and the ability to effectively manage staff, resources, and departmental assets while demonstrating alignment with the hospital’s mission, vision, and values.

• Selects, assigns and retains staff, ensuring equal employment opportunity in hiring and promotion.
• Coordinates activities by scheduling work assignments, setting priorities and directing the work.
• Directs daily operations that relate to the reprocessing of reusable medical supplies and instrumentation including, but is not limited to, maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Responsible for compliance with all regulatory agencies, Federal, State and hospital standards.
• Develops and monitors standards of decontamination, sterile processing and assembly of instruments.
• Assures the completeness and accuracy of all records and control and/or indicator logs as dictated by regulatory policies.

Required

• High School Diploma or GED
• Three (3) years of sterile processing experience
• Knowledge of all regulatory guidelines and standards of practice as it relates to AAMI, AORN, Joint Commission and OSHA
• Certified Registered Central Services Tech or Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD)
• Upon hire or within one (1) year of hire or transfer, one of the following: CIS, CSIS, CER, C-FER, CHL, CSPM, CASSPT

Preferred

• Associate Degree
• Two (2) years of sterile processing leadership experience

Located in Lakewood, Colorado, St. Anthony Hospital is a Level I Trauma Center where we provide a full range of medical specialties and health care services to Denver and the surrounding region through our state-of-the-art medical campus and home base for Flight For Life Colorado. With four trauma rooms including the T-10 room, a dedicated field-to-surgery suite ready 24/7 for trauma surgeons and specially trained teams, our staff can provide life-saving care to the most severely ill and injured patients. In 2023, we received our exciting Magnet designation! We are so proud of our staff for this achievement, which is awarded to only 10 percent of hospitals around the world. Numerous other awards, certifications, and accreditations have been granted to us from the American Heart Association; Chest Pain Center (CPC); American College of Cardiology; The Joint Commission's National Quality Approval; the Emergency Nurses Association Lantern Award; NAPBC Accreditation; American College of Radiology and many others. At St. Anthony Hospital. We combine a heritage of expert care with the latest in technology and innovation. If you're looking to be part of a fast-paced environment where you can practice to the top of your profession in trauma, cardiology, stroke, neurosciences, breast imaging, cancer/oncology care, surgery and more, we invite you to apply.