Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals is the flagship hospital of Jefferson Health, a multi-state non-profit health system based in Philadelphia. The hospital serves as the teaching hospital for Thomas Jefferson University. With 937 licensed beds and 63 operating rooms, it is the second-largest hospital in Pennsylvania. Inpatient services are provided at three locations: the main hospital facility and Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience, both in Center City Philadelphia, as well as Methodist Hospital in South Philadelphia.
The Director of Sterile Processing amp; Case Cart (SPCC) provides excellent, current, and fiscally responsible leadership and management for the operations in the Sterile Processing and Case Cart Department, analyzes performance measures and metrics, and leads strategic initiatives to always assure the support of safe patient care. Reporting to the Vice President, Operations, the Director supervises three (3) manager level positions, eleven (11) supervisors, three (3) instrument and equipment coordinators, one (1) educator, and one-hundred fifteen (115) technicians. With over 30,000 surgeries performed annually, SPCC runs 24/7/365 and requires a leader with a strong background in sterile processing, developing, and enforcing competencies, and experience with productivity metrics.
This leader contributes to and executes the vision for promoting excellence and program growth in a highly competitive marketplace; ensures that high quality services are provided within professional regulatory and accrediting body standards; ensures that overall performance meets or exceeds national best practice benchmarks; ensures operational function at top levels of efficiency and exceed customer expectations. Provide current science-based expertise to direct programs, process, and people to define quality service deliverables to include support of safe efficient care, quality patient outcomes, and improve process and practice to reduce risk factors.
Essential Functions
- Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
- Provides leadership and directly supervises the activities of the Sterile Processing and Case Cart department at TJUH, JHN and Methodist Hospitals.
- Utilizes problem solving skills and methods to resolve and assure standards for sterilization practices are according to regulatory and governing bodies to support infection control practices.
- Coordinates operational functions to fulfill goals for the SPCC Department at all TJU campuses.
- Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the core values of the Hospital.
- Develops and implements appropriate strategies to assure efficient and quality services for the SPCC department to provide support services to its customers.
- Analyzes work patterns and flow to meet identified benchmark targets; identifies similarities and differences to benchmark institutions.
- Plans and implements programs related to inventory, supplies, distribution and standardization of materials related to Perioperative SPCC areas are maintained and maximized to support budgetary targets.
- Assists in the development of the Sterile Processing and Case Cart Department operating and capital budgets.
- Manages the departmental operational and capital budget monitoring actual performance relative to budget and explaining variances.
- Exercises fiscal responsibility for operational budget of the Sterile Processing and Case Cart Department including the replacement of instrumentation and supplies.
- Ensure compliance with Infection Control Policies and Procedures of TJUH as well as the regulations of the PA Department of Health, OSHA, CDC, EPA, FDA, and AAMI.
- Develop the surgical service partnership between SPCC and the ORs to ensure integrated productivity and system monitoring; develop and implement coordinated project improvement plans.
- Identifies processes and mechanisms needed to achieve targeted outcomes, plans actions for improvements (current and future), and implement changes that will enhance quality and effectiveness throughout the Perioperative Division
- Evaluates the SPCC Departmental responsibilities in coordination with Perioperative Divisional quality and patient safety initiatives utilizing data analysis from monitoring processes and patient outcomes and systematically uses the data for continuous quality improvement.
- Analyzes workflows that support patient care delivery; identify potential process breakdowns that may affect patient safety.
- Identify methods to optimize SPCC and ldquo;relatedrdquo; service efficiency.
- Serve as a resource to develop and mentor unit-based committees and staffs to deliver and monitor ongoing measurements and assessment to implement best practice sterilization processes and practices across all the perioperative settings as well as in the various Hospital Based Practices.
- Evaluate SPCC policies to ensure practice is in accordance with professional standards and accrediting regulations.
- Ensure proper use of the Instrument Management System across the Division.
- Utilize six sigma and other performance improvement methodologies and tools in process improvement activities.
- Other duties as assigned.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):
Knowledge of the principles amp; practices of health planning and management sufficient to manage, direct and coordinate the operations of a diverse department.
Skill in exercising a high degree of initiative, judgment, discretion and decision making to achieve organizational objectives.
Skill in analyzing situations accurately and taking effective action.
Ability to organize and integrate organizational priorities and deadlines
Ability to prepare comprehensive reports.
Education:
Bachelorrsquo;s Degree in Nursing, Business Administration, Biological/Physical Sciences, or Health Care Administration required; Masterrsquo;s Degree in Nursing, Business Administration, Biological/Physical Sciences, or Health Care Administration also preferred
AND
Experience:
Minimum of 10 years of progressive management and leadership experience in sterile processing, including extensive knowledge of decontamination/sterilization principles, standards, techniques, and best practice along with proven success within the Sterile Processing setting. Experience in a union environment is preferred.
Minimum Certifications, Registration or License Requirements:
Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) (HSPA).
Certified Healthcare Leader (CHL) required (HSPA)
Certified Instrument Specialist (CIS) preferred but required within 1 year.
Certified Endoscope Reprocessor (CER) preferred (HSPA).
Registered Nurse (RN) licensed to practice in the State of Pennsylvania is desirable, but not required.
(*HSPA ndash; Healthcare Sterile Processing Association ndash; Formerly known as IAHCSMM)
Covid Vaccination is a requirement for employment at Jefferson for employees working at Jeffersonrsquo;s clinical entities or at the University. If you are not currently vaccinated you will be required to receive the vaccination prior to hire date if you are offered employment, unless you request and receive an approved medical or religious exemption from Jefferson.
Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.
Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.
Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnetreg;-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.
Jeffersonrsquo;s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.
- OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
- OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
- OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold amp; Think Differently and Do the Right Thing
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