**Job Summary and Responsibilities** Are you a highly skilled and experienced Sterile Processing professional, ready to take the reins and guide a vital team?
Do you thrive on ensuring precision, patient safety, and operational flow in a dynamic surgical environment?
If you possess a minimum of three years of dedicated sterile processing experience, including at least one year in a leadership capacity, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities: + Guiding and mentoring a dedicated team of technicians, ensuring every instrument is meticulously processed and readily available for our surgical suites.
+ Knowing that your leadership in sterile technique directly contributes to preventing surgical site infections and optimizing patient safety.
+ Collaborating seamlessly with our OR staff to anticipate needs, troubleshoot challenges, and guarantee a smooth, uninterrupted surgical schedule.
+ Implementing innovative strategies, embracing new technologies, and continuously elevating our sterile processing capabilities.
This is a unique opportunity to step into a pivotal role where your expertise and leadership will make a tangible difference every single day.
If you're ready to move beyond "just processing" and instead lead, innovate, and contribute to world-class surgical care, we encourage you to connect with us.
**Job Requirements** + High School / General Studies (GED) required.
+ Minimum three (3) years technical operating/instrument room experience required.
+ Prior supervisory experience required + AHA Basic Life Support (AHA BLS) required + Fire Safety, within 90 Days of start date required.
+ Certified and Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) required.
+ Certified Sterile Processing and Dist Tech (CSPDT) required.
+ Cert Sterile Processing Dist Tech (CSPDT -CBSPD) required.
Preferred + College Degree in a related field preferred.
+ Accredited Central Service/Sterile Processing Program and/or Surgical Technology Program preferred.
+ Hospital acute care preferred.
+ Certified Instrument Specialist (CIS) preferred.
+ Certified Flexible Endoscope Reprocessor (CFER) within 6 months preferred.
**Where You'll Work** Founded in 1955, Dignity Health - Northridge Hospital Medical Center is a 394-bed, acute care, nonprofit community hospital located in Northridge, California.
The hospital offers a full complement of award winning services, including the Leavey Cancer Center, a cardiovascular center, stroke center, the Center for Assault Treatment Services, a pediatric medical center, and the only pediatric trauma center in the San Fernando Valley.
As a leading provider of compassionate, high-quality and affordable patient-centered care, we share a rich legacy with Dignity Health, one of the nation's five largest health care systems.
We are part of a 21-state network of nearly 9,000 physicians, 62,000 employees and more than 400 care centers.
Visit here ( dignityhealth.org/northridgehospital for more information.
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