Waltham, Massachusetts
New York, New York
Nashville, Tennessee
Posted: 30-Sep-22
Location: Valparaiso, Florida
Type: Full Time
Required Education: High School
Salary: $20/hr
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Internal Number: F-0352
THE COMPANY
2 IMMEDIATE FULL-TIME OPENINGS!
Join the team at the 96th Medical Group Hospital at Eglin Air Force Base!
The 96th Medical Group provides comprehensive medical care to approximately 92,000 eligible active duty military members, retirees, and their families. The hospital has a six-bed intensive care unit and a 53-bed facility. The 96th Medical Group provides a wide variety of outpatient services and presently supports one of the larger outpatient workloads in the Air Force.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Receive, disassemble, decontaminate and inspect reusable medical devices and surgical instrumentation for damage.
- Receive and dispose of regulated medical waste, general waste and soiled linen.
- Comply with OSHA regulations governing the wearing of personal protective equipment at all times when working in the decontamination area.
- Determine the correct method of decontamination to include the following: removal of blood, tissue fragments, body fluids and other gross contaminants. Decontamination methods shall include wiping, soaking, rinsing, scrubbing and using ultrasonic and washer decontamination/ sterilizer equipment.
- Examine all items after decontamination/pre-sterilization procedures to ensure that gross contaminants have been removed and that instruments function properly.
- Ensure that all medical devices and surgical instrumentation are properly labeled and identified.
- Assemble and prepare the full range of specialty trays and instrument sets. Select correct wrapping or packaging material for medical devices and surgical instrument sets, select sterilization process in accordance with standard procedures to include: Ethylene Oxide (ETO) or Steam Sterilization. Correctly label, seal, wrap or place in rigid containers, items with appropriate chemical indicator tape, and aerate gas sterilized items for the correct period of time.
- Receive sterilized trays, sets, and equipment from the sterilizer; check for integrity of sterilization, (i.e., color changes on indicator tapes, external and internal.
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED and completion of a Central Sterile Supply training course.
- Current certification by the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA) (formerly IAHCSMM) or CBSPD.
- Minimum two (2) years of recent experience.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification by the American Heart Association.
- This is a government contractor position. Must be a U.S. Citizen or authorized to work in the U.S. and be able to pass a federal security background check (SF85).
