Central Service Tech II - North Liberty Campus

Central Sterilizing Services is seeking a full-time Central Service Technician II on 2nd shift (3:00 PM to 11:30 PM). This position will be located within the new North Liberty Campus.

University of Iowa Health Care North Liberty Campus opened in the Spring of 2025.  This 469,000 square foot facility is home to UI Health Care’s nationally recognized Orthopedics service line, offering comprehensive, coordinated, and accessible care across the outpatient, inpatient and surgical venues. This state-of-the-art clinical facility includes a full-service community imaging center, laboratory services, physical therapy, retail pharmacy, and emergency department as well as an array of support services.  The facility has been designed to support a superior patient and staff experience; excellence across our patient care, teaching and research missions; convenient access to services; and engaging community partnerships.  UI Health Care is seeking a welcoming, highly-skilled and collaborative workforce to be a part of the team for this superb new campus, and to help further our mission of: Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.

Under general supervision, performs and has operational responsibility for difficult technical duties involving all aspects of sterile processing: decontamination, preparation, packaging, sterilization, sterile storage, distribution of sterile medical devices and inventorying, stocking and distribution of medical supplies.  Provides functional supervision to student and Central Services Technician I staff.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serves as lead technician by demonstrating expertise in all central sterilization processes.  Identifies operational concerns and takes corrective action.  Assigns technical duties to personnel and assumes responsibility for accurately completing shift duties.  Participates in assessment and monitoring of staff competency, provides feedback and support to assist with performance evaluations.
• Under direction of the CST IIIs performs all aspects of training within their area of responsibility and documents employee training progress in training guides.
• Decontaminates, disassembles, inspects, cleans, sorts, and reassembles complex surgical instrument and implant trays, operates automatic scope washers, sonic washers, mechanical washer/decontaminators, inspection equipment and sterilizers..  Performs transportation of contaminated and sterilized/ high level disinfected devices following infection prevention practices and organizational guidance.  Performs microbicidal processes, standard/transmission based precautions and engineering and work practice controls.
• Performs infection prevention processes to remove all contaminants (blood, tissue, fluids, bioburden, etc.) from surgical instruments, utensils and other surgical items.  Handles large volumes of complex medical instrumentation, flexible scopes, delicate eye instruments, power equipment and different instrument patterns.
• Maintains a clean and safe environment by adhering to Standard Precautions and Infection Control practices which includes proper Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE), safe chemical handling practices, and body mechanics (i.e. ergonomics, human factors).
• References materials via computer systems, follows guides and instructions to assemble high complexity and volume of instrument trays. Inspects and evaluates instruments for proper function and cleanliness. Confirms all quality assurance mechanisms are in place.
• Performs all aspects of sterilization, packaging inspection, equipment operation, safety procedures, proper documentation, and prioritization.  Sterilizes items per manufacturer’s instructions for use (IFU), verifies correct parameters used for all instruments.
• Assembles instrument trays in accordance with patient/surgeon procedure specific cards within appropriate time frame and documents missing items.   Performs duties in a high stress environment, responds to emergencies and urgent add-on cases.  Receives and responds to a high volume of phone calls to provide additional items as needed.
• Performs inventory management for high volume of supplies and implants. Monitors and replenishes stock levels through use of multiple computer software programs and checks stock expiration dates. Restocks items, and adds new items to inventory.
• Performs biological monitoring of sterilizers to ensure sterilizer efficacy.  Conducts challenge tests on sterilization and decontamination equipment.  Performs preventative maintenance functions on all equipment, as needed.
• Participates in and contributes to department/division/unit committees, meetings and/or projects and in-services.
• Participates in quality improvement activities; including waste, duplication reduction and process improvement.
• Report quality and process deviations following institutional guidance.
• Performs other projects or tasks as assigned.

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