Sterile Processing Support Assistant, Jewish Hospital, 6:30a-3p

Primary Location:

JHHS - Jewish Hospital - UMC

Address:

200 Abraham Flexner Way
Louisville, KY 40202


Shift:

Varied (United States of America)

Job Description Summary:

• About Us
• UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with eight hospitals, four medical centers, Brown Cancer Center, Eye Institute, nearly 200 physician practice locations, and more than 1,000 providers in Louisville and the surrounding counties, including southern Indiana. Additional access to UofL Health is provided through a partnership with Carroll County Memorial Hospital.

With more than 13,000 team members – physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, and other highly-skilled health care professionals, UofL Health is focused on one mission: to transform the health of communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care.

• Our Mission
• As an academic health care system, we will transform the health of the communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care.

Job Summary

The Sterile Processing Support Assistant assists in providing the highest quality patient care, by supplying sterile and non-sterile supplies, instruments, and equipment to all departments/areas within the University Medical Center complex. The Support Assistant’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to: pick-up and delivery of all reusable items to appropriate areas, packing and delivery of case carts, restocking supplies, and crediting supply returns to SPD. Maintains compliance with established policies and procedures of Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Associates of perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN), and CDC guidelines.

Job Description:

• Effectively communicates with co-workers and all other hospital personnel
• Answers Vocera/telephone promptly and assist caller with obtaining items needed
• Assembles supplies and places into case carts for scheduled and non-scheduled procedures
• Makes rounds throughout the hospital to deliver sterile and non-sterile instrumentation, supplies and equipment, and to pick-up contaminated or credit instrumentation, supplies and equipment
• Delivers scheduled case carts to the Surgery Department
• Inventories and delivers back-up case carts to the Surgery Department and required areas
• Maintains responsibility for returned instrumentation and supplies (if applicable) that is unused, and the integrity of packaging has not been compromised

Additional Job Description:

Education & Training: High School graduate or GED required

Experience: One year previous experience in a healthcare setting in a clinical capacity preferred

License & Certification: None