Central Sterile Education Coordinator | Rapid City Hospital | Full Time - 40 Hours

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Primary Location

Rapid City, SD USA

Department

RCH Central Sterile Processing

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Starting Pay Rate Range

$17.64 - $22.05

(Determined by the knowledge, skills, and experience of the applicant.)

Job Summary

Plans, organizes, and coordinates all aspects of educational programming to meet employee, community, and regulatory training needs or requirements. Works autonomously with central sterile supervisor to coordinate, track, and audit education activities. Ensures regulatory agency standards are being met and accurately reported. Demonstrates a commitment to cost effectiveness and customer satisfaction by establishing and maintaining cooperative relationships, by promoting professionalism, and by communicating effectively. Performs and is proficient in job duties that are required for employees within surgical services. Provide positive leadership as an extension of the management team. Helps direct shift priorities and performs appropriate delegation to ensure the team accomplishes shift goals. Performs all processing duties of medical/surgical supplies and equipment, both sterile and non-sterile, which include preparing, cleaning, processing, storing, and issuing.

Monument Health offers competitive wages and benefits on qualifying positions. Some of those benefits can include:

• Supportive work culture

• Medical, Vision and Dental Coverage

• Retirement Plans, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Account

• Instant pay is available for qualifying positions

• Paid Time Off Accrual Bank

• Opportunities for growth and advancement

• Tuition assistance/reimbursement

• Excellent pay differentials on qualifying positions (extra pay for working evening, nights or weekends)

• Flexible scheduling

Job Description

Essential Functions:

• Plans and coordinates in-house and educational programs, including seminars, symposiums, workshops, and other events necessary to accomplish the mission.

• Responsible for onboarding, orientation, and mentoring of new staff. Along with arranging time in the OR for new staff.

• Achieves positive results by persistence and diligence and attains amiable results from peers.

• Collects post-course reaction evaluation from all trainees to measure the progress and to evaluate effectiveness of training.

• Create Standard Work based on industry best practice.

• Create weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual in-service/educational topic during department meeting.

• Completes projects without direct supervision, employing initiative, innovation, and time management skills as observed by the director.

• Confer with manager, supervisor, and staff to gain knowledge of work situations requiring training and to better understand changes in policies, procedures, regulations, business initiatives and technologies.

• Continually evaluates programs and modifies as needs of the institution or environment change to obtain best utilization of resources and transfer of learning.

• Contributes to development and accomplishment of department goals as evidenced by active participation in formulation, accomplishment, and communication of goals.

• Shares knowledge with co-workers through open communication and continuous development of skills.

• Assists supervisor in day-to-day activities to include answering phones, daily staff assignment sheet and communications with staff members on instrument requirements and availability.

• Assist Central Sterile staff with competencies within CensiTrac.

• Assist Central Sterile supervisor with IFU (Instructions For Use) documentation and update as needed.

• Responsible for management notification when items are missing or become broken.

• Review IFU for any newly acquired instruments and develop in-service for staff education prior to go live of new products.

• Perform individual and/or group in-services with central sterile staff based on Quality incidents tracked in CensiTrac and reported to central sterile leadership.

• Applies and enforces regulations, standards, and hospital policy and procedures pertaining to all areas of sterile processing.

• All other duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements

Required:

Education

• High School Diploma/GED Equivalent

Experience

• 1+ years of Sterile Processing Experience

Certification

• Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST)

• Accredited University or Training Center

Preferred:

Education

• Associates in Health Sciences

Experience

• 3+ years of Sterile Processing Experience

Physical Requirements:

Medium work

• Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Job Category

Support Services

Job Family

Materials Management

Shift

Employee Type

Regular

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Monument Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.