Description
Introduction
Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a(an) Lead Sterile Processing Tech with Portsmouth Regional Hospital you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!
Benefits
Portsmouth Regional Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- 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.
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
Would you like to unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to the growth and development of our colleagues? Join the Portsmouth Regional Hospital family! We will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed in our organization. We are looking for an enthusiastic Lead Sterile Processing Tech to help us reach our goals. Unlock your potential!
Job Summary and Qualifications
POSITION SUMMARY:
A qualified individual holding certification in CSR with administrative accountability to designated service area. Collaborates with OR/CSR manager and Surgical Services Director to plan, staffing needs, and oversee competency of staff. Responsible for the instrumentation processing, which includes the decontamination and sterile prep area. Demonstrates expertise in instrumentation reprocessing and infection control practices. Basic computer skills, use of Microsoft office programs, SMART, GHX.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
Demonstrates critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, and leadership in planning, directing, and provision of processes that directly affect patient care. Works cooperatively within department and other services; to create a system that provides quality health care. Determines staffing requirements; assists with interviewing and hiring personnel for department, conducting yearly performance appraisal for all staff.
SPECIFIC ELEMENTS & ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Maintains Quality Assurance.
- Demonstrates by role modeling, the leadership behaviors to which staff and peers respond positively. e.g. envisioning the direction of the Surgical Services Service Line; to strive toward empowering the staff to belief that one can achieve one's own level of excellence and balance as a team member and as an individual.
- Demonstrates a patient and customer centered philosophy (versus a unit centered philosophy). Thus wherever our attention to patient care is needed, we respond.
- Demonstrates excellent listening skills. e.g. hearing and responding especially to staff frustrations as quickly as possible, communicating clearly what can and can't be done and what is being done.
- Remains clinically excellent, and focuses on developing others to assume those roles. Risk taking in coaching, but allowing, within reason, the behavior that others to whom managing is delegated, may not do it with same level of expertise.
- Successfully assumes resource role responsibility: Responsible for instrument processing area and assignments as needed to meet the needs of the surgical team instrument requests and departments.
- Participates in employee selection process; Recommends corrective and other employee actions to CSR Manager. Assists with evaluations in a constructive manner to ensure improved employee performance. Assists CSR Manager and Director in coaching, counseling, and disciplining staff per hospital policy.
- Directs, supervises and assist with the daily work load in the CSR, instrument processing and decontamination of surgical instrumentation and equipment.
- Directs, supervises and assists with instrument processing technicians in maintaining accurate records on sterilization.
- Assists in visual inspection, assembly and wrapping of sterile instruments prior to sterilization.
- Assists with the care and maintenance of equipment and instrumentation.
- Assists CSR Manager in determining department needs, and makes recommendations for improvements, new equipment and supplies. Ordering supplies to maintain stock for both CSR and OR tray inventory.
- Directs and assists with cleaning and environmental surfaces and equipment to maintain function and asepsis.
- In collaboration with CSR Manager and Director, manages department's compliance with JCAHO and other regulatory and safety standards.
- Fosters supportive attitude and teamwork.
- Assists in the daily management/ operations functions related to staffing, scheduling and materials management. Maximizes unit efficiency and demonstrates a cost-effective approach to the delivery of services.
- Acts independently in the absence of CSR Manager and Director in carrying out overall unit operations and decision-making.
- Assists with development and implementation of new services as well as new policies and protocols. Conducts orientation of new staff as well as coordinating maintaining competency in all staff. Acts as a preceptor to new hire staff.
What qualifications you will need:
- Certified Registered Central Service Technician must be obtained within 1 year of employment start date
- 1-3 Years Experience Preferred
- High School Graduate / GED
Situated in Portsmouth, NH, Portsmouth Regional Hospital is a premier 234-bed acute care facility that offers exceptional healthcare services to the Seacoast region of Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire. This hospital is the sole ACS Verified Level II Trauma Center on the Seacoast of New Hampshire, making it an essential resource for the community. It boasts the region's only comprehensive heart and vascular program, along with 24/7 comprehensive neurosurgical and stroke clot retrieval programs for both hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes. Portsmouth Regional Hospital is owned by HCA Healthcare, a respected healthcare provider that runs three hospitals, an ambulatory surgery center, two freestanding emergency rooms, an urgent care center, and 46 physician practices in New Hampshire. HCA Healthcare has 2,600 colleagues and 554 physicians on staff, provides $15.8 million in uncompensated care, and pays $43.8 million in taxes annually. Its other hospitals in New Hampshire include Parkland Medical Center in Derry, Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, and freestanding emergency rooms in Seabrook and Dover. In 2023, a third freestanding emergency room is expected to open in Plaistow.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Lead Sterile Processing Tech opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.