Job Description
Job Description: CENTRAL STERILE TECH
General Summary: The Central Sterile Tech is responsible for sterilizing instruments, supplies, and wrapping/storing these items until ready for use. This position distributes supplies, instruments, and equipment used in patient care. This position also cleans rooms ensuring a sterile atmosphere for surgery and patient care is responsible for assisting to prepare the operating room by setting up surgical instruments and equipment, sterile drapes, and sterile solutions in the operating room before an operation. They assemble both sterile and nonsterile equipment, as well as check and adjust it to ensure that it is working properly.
Main Responsibilities:
• Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job
• Familiar with surgical instrumentation and set preparation
• Familiar with running autoclave
• Knowledge of standard concepts, practices, and procedures in a Surgery Center
• Performs a variety of tasks related to set preparation
• Knowledge of aseptic/sterilization/disinfection techniques, procedures, supplies, and equipment
• Knowledge of what factors can violate the integrity of sterile package
• Assists with surgical team during operative procedures as directed by supervising physician
• Participates with cleaning and set up of surgical rooms
• Communicates supply and equipment repairs to proper personnel
• Performs all duties in an independent manner with minimal direction and supervision
Education/Experience/Knowledge:
•Certification as a Central Sterile Tech or requirements for CST required
High School Diploma or equivalent required
• Prior experience preferred
• Current CPR certification and capable of initiating cardio-pulmonary resuscitation in times of emergency
• Knowledge of principles of sterile technique
• Excellent Communication Skills
Physical Demands:
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. Reach with hands and arms.
• The employee frequently is required to walk, stand, and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• The employee may be exposed to bodily fluids and infectious diseases.
Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
Physical/Mental Demands:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential: Communication with others to exchange or express information and ideas. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine distinctions in sounds. Determine the accuracy, neatness, thoroughness of the work assigned and perceive general observations. Remaining upright on the feet, particularly 80% of the time. Needs to move inside or outside the office space to transport patients. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks. Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist and/ or by bending leg and spine. Extending the hands and arms in any direction. Exerting force upon an object so that an object moves away/toward the force. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers. Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm. Perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature. Perform with frequent interruptions and/ or distractions. Make appropriate job decisions following standard office policies and past precedents. Adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate. Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers and the public. Ability to interact appropriately with colleagues and patients for different purposes and different context.
Marginal: Must be able to remain in a stationary position at least 25% of the time. Medium work that includes moving objects up to 50 pounds occasionally. Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips. Work independently and identify potentially more effective methods of work operations. Observing an area that can be seen up and down or to right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point. Ability to identify and distinguish colors.
Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.
All job requirements are subject to possible revision to reflect changes in the position requirements or to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities