Job Description
Description
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Summary:
This position coordinates daily activities between the Operating Room and Central Sterile Services to facilitate efficient case flow.
Responsibilities:
1. Performs inventory replacement procedures.
2. Ensures continuity and quality of services by providing support services in the O.R. suite.
3. Meets with Operating Room staff and surgeons as needed to discuss SPD needs.
4. Communicates with SPD staff prior to cases to ascertain specific instrument and supply needs and ensures these items are available.
5. Responds to problem calls from in the OR and resolve issues in an expeditious manner.
6. Ensures delivery of sterilized instrumentation to the OR area as needed.
7. Serve as a liaison with the Instrument Coordinator to ensure instruments are maintained/repaired as needed and available for cases.
8. Ensures all instruments are properly arranged in instrument trays and have no broken insulation or broken operational parts.
9. Verifies that required instrumentation has been sterilized and is available for next-day, call or weekend cases.
10. Completes documentation as required for inventory, equipment requests, instrument sets, etc.
11. Consistently conveys that customers are the highest priority and communicates in a manner that promotes and sustains customer satisfaction and encourages others to do the same.
12. Responsible for service level data collection.
Other Information
Other information:
Education Requirements:
* None required as long as other position qualifications are met.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* SPD Certification Required.
Professional Experience Requirements:
* Two (2) years of sterile processing experience.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
Job Details
Legal Employer: STATE
Entity: UNC Medical Center
Organization Unit: Central Processing Department
Work Type: Full Time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
Salary Range: $19.59 - $27.84 per hour (Hiring Range)
Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Day Job
Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.
UNC Health Care
May 08, 2025