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Introduction

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below:Sterile Processing Tech LeadWesley Medical Center

Benefits

Wesley Medical Center 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.

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

_Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location._

We are seeking a(an) Sterile Processing Tech Lead for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

As a Sterile Processing Lead Technician, you are responsible for providing asset management and support of surgical instruments and trays belonging to or consigned to the facility, in accordance with The Department of Health, TJC, OSHA, CDC, AAMI and AORN standards.

What you should expect to do in this role:

+ Properly handles, decontaminates, assembles, sterilizes and returns for use all instrumentation in accordance with the above organizational standards.

+ Supports daily operations of any activities that pertain to the processing of reusable instrumentation.

+ Assists to develop and establish work flow, process improvements, daily work assignments, log documentation and management. Initial counseling with direct reports (Tech I and Tech II staff)

+ Develops and implements educational offerings to SPD staff, direct supervision of Tech I and Tech II staff

+ Accurate and timely reporting of shift details to incoming shift staff and oncoming Lead Technician.

+ Delegate responsibility, assign lunch and break schedule, monitor and responsible for daily logs

+ Demonstrates consistent success in working, communicating with, and mentoring diverse staff.

+ Supports daily operations of any activities that pertain to the processing of reusable instrumentation.

+ Works with other departments, including Supply Chain, in order to provide all necessary items to perioperative services

+ Reporting of broken instrumentation, and vital communication with team leadership and/or manager.

+ Demonstrates extensive knowledge of instrumentation in multiple specialty areas.

+ Participates in educational offerings and in-services in order to remain knowledgeable in the department and to remain in compliance with certification needs.

+ Communicates in a professional manner to all staff and facility employees.

+ Meet or exceed metric requirements including but not limited to: productivity goals, tray audits, zero dirty instruments, vendor policies and adequate rotation and knowledge of all areas of the SPD.

What qualification you will need for this role:

+ Certification as a Sterile Processing Technician vis CBSPD or IAHCSMM

+ Advanced certification (Advanced Instrument Tech, CST or Endoscopy Technician) required within 1 year of hire

+ Associate degree

+ Two years’ experience in sterile processing experience, or similar clinical experience required, supervisory experience

+ Medical terminology and familiarity with surgical instrumentation

+ Good organizational and leadership skills, attention to details and ability to multi-task in a high pressure environment.

**For more than 100 years, Wesley Healthcare has provided exceptional care** to thousands of families in Wichita and throughout Kansas and Northern Oklahoma. Wesley Medical Center (https://wesleymc.com/locations/wesley-medical-center/) is a member of the Wesley Healthcare network within Greater Wichita and has been an HCA Healthcare hospital since 1985.

Our physicians treat more than **24,000 patients annually** , making Wesley Medical Center the most preferred hospital in Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Additionally, our obstetricians and childbirth staff **deliver more than 6,000 babies each year** , more than any hospital in a 13-state region.

Home to Wesley Children's Hospital (https://wesleymc.com/locations/wesley-childrens/) , the region's first and Wichita's only children's hospital, we care for children in a unique space designed specially for kids and their families. And as a Level I Trauma Center (https://wesleymc.com/specialties/trauma-center?location=wesley-medical-center) and the **only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in Kansas** , we are prepared to treat any medical emergency, any time of day.

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

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Sterile Processing Tech Lead opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. **We are interviewing - apply today!**

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.