Description du poste
This position is located within the Sterile Processing Service in the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System. Sterile Processing covers five locations including, Gainesville Medical Center, Lake City Medical Center, Jacksonville Outpatient Center (JOPC), Tallahassee Health Care Center (THCC), and the Villages Outpatient Center (TVOPC). The duty station for this position is in Gainesville, FL and Tallahassee, FL.
PRINCIPALES MISSIONS :
The Lead MST works in support of the Sterile Processing Service (SPS) management team. Duties and functions include but are not limited to the following: Has expert knowledge of all areas with Sterile Processing to include: decontamination, preparation and assembly, sterilization, endoscope reprocessing, sterile storage and distribution. Demonstrates ability to work in all these areas efficiently as needed. Serves as a service expert on basic and specialty instrumentation though knowledge or use of available resources to accurately assemble basic and complex surgical trays. Distributes and prioritizes workload among employees in accordance with established workflow and/or job specializations. Assures an even workflow and distribution of the workload. Ensures scanning of instruments/scopes/probes as required in all steps of the cleaning/sterilization process to ensure accurate tracking of item through the entire process and accurate capture of workload. Revises work schedules to meet anticipated and unanticipated changes in the workload. Assigns work to staff based on experience and training needs. Monitors and reports on the status of work. Ensures SOPs, Policies, and SPS mandates are followed during the performance of workflow. Reviews work in progress or spot checks work not requiring review to ensure completed work meets supervisors' instructions on such things as work sequence, procedures, methods, and deadlines. Assesses the quality and quantity of work by reviewing the cleaning, reprocessing, and distribution of technical medical equipment, material and instrumentation. Ensures service maintains a clean clutter free work environment including but not limited to appropriate par levels, replacing loose instrumentation in appropriate storage locations, scanning trays following policy and procedures to appropriate storage location and putting trays in correct location. Provides information to management officials concerning performance issues, assignment changes, task completion, and competency review. Provides customer service by fielding requests from end-users. Consistently demonstrates effective customer service by interacting with co-workers, staff, patients, visitors, students, and volunteers in a courteous and professional manner. Trouble shoots and analyzes mechanical failures and makes necessary adjustments to complex decontamination and sterilization equipment, as well as interprets alarm conditions which may occur while operating the equipment. Performs and/or oversees maintenance per manufacturer's guidelines on all equipment used in scope processing, decontamination, and sterile processing. Instructs employees on work-related activities, policies, procedures and goals. Utilizes advanced functions of instrument tracking system to manage RME throughout the facility. Provides guidance and training to staff members with less experience. Participates in and oversees a quality assurance program to ensure appropriate and safe reprocessing is being performed as evidence by documenting: sterilizer recording charts, digital printouts, biologicals and Bowie Dick test results, high level disinfectant records, and other associated quality assurance documentation. Assists in document control, meeting the mandate of storing QA documentation for 3 years. Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, Rotating Schedule; 0700-1530,1500-2330, 2300-0730 Travel: Required up to 25% of the time; Valid Driver's License required Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Pay: Competitive salary and regula
À propos de Veterans Health Administration
OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans? The North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System serves veterans across a large geographical area in North Florida (33 counties) and South Georgia (19 counties). In addition to our two medical centers in Gainesville and Lake City, we offer a number of services to our patients in several satellite outpatient clinics and community-based outpatient clinics. The Gainesville VA Medical Center is a 239-bed hospital, which includes 26 ICU beds, as well as a 24-bed ER. The Lake City VA Medical Center has 40 acute care/intensive care beds and a 12-bed ER. The Malcom Randall VA Medical Center (VAMC) is one of two VAMCs in the North Florida/South Georgia Vetera