Position summary:
Joining our Dental Department, the Lead Central Sterile Processing Technician will join our fast-paced Bronx FQHC. The Sterilization Tech will maintain quality assurance standards, ensure approved infection control, and uphold dental department policy and procedure.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School Diploma required with Certificate required including: Sterile Processing Technician; Certified Registered Central Service Technician, CBSPD, or CS/SPD.
- Minimum of 1-2 years of sterilization experience is required
- Familiarity with dental instruments is a plus.
- Must have excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a large team environment.
- Understanding strict adherence to infection control protocols and standards.
- Ability to mentor and train other sterilization technicians.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Team player
Key Duties:
- Collects, cleans, decontaminates, disinfects, and sterilizes dental instruments/trays/packs.
- Sterilizes reusable dental instruments, devices, and equipment.
- Maintains logs and inventories. Re-stocks and distributed instruments and supplies as needed.
- Ensures effective transportation of instruments between pediatric and adult dental clinics.
- Monitor that contaminated instruments are handled safely and according to protocol.
- Maintain adequate levels of sterile supplies and instrument sets. Monitor sterilization equipment and report malfunctions.
- Coordinate with providers and clinical teams to ensure instruments are available for patient care.
- Support leadership with implementing infection control quality improvements.
- Inform leadership of delays, risks, or compliance issues
- Ensure adherence to OSHA, CDC, and infection control standards
Compensation: $27.00 per hour based on 40 hours per week ($56,160 annualized).
Work Environment Type, Location, and Schedule:
Candidates must be available to work onsite based in our Southern Boulevard Health Center. Candidates must have availability to work Tuesday through Saturday 8am-5pm/9am-6pm OR Monday through Friday 8am-5pm/9am-6pm with rotating Saturdays (and day off during week).
About Urban Health Plan:
At Urban Health Plan (UHP) our mission is to continuously improve the health of communities and the quality of life of the people we serve by providing affordable, comprehensive, quality, primary and specialty health care and by assuring the performance and advancement of innovative best practices. At UHP, our commitment to provide patient-centered, holistic, quality health care is part of a tradition started by our founder, Dr. Richard Izquierdo, more than 50 years ago. That tradition continues today by promoting excellence in everything that we do.
UHP is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin/ancestry, citizenship status, disability, age, marital or family status, and military or veteran status.