Job Description

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At Cedars-Sinai, we're motivated by a collective spirit of innovation and the challenge to continuously improve. Above all, we share a real passion for helping others. Day after day, from department to department, our people give their all to create a community unlike any other. This is just one of the many reasons U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America?s Best Hospitals-and now we invite you to join us and make a difference every single day in service of this outstanding work - excellence and innovation in patient care, research, and community service. From working with a team of dedicated professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you?ll have great resources to do something incredible-for yourself, and for others.

What you will be doing in this role?

The Assistant Manager, Sterile Processing, will oversee all operational, technical and personnel activities within Sterile Processing ensuring high quality sterile processing standards are met. This role will function as a leader and expert and is accountable for the timely delivery of instrumentation needs for Perioperative Services and other procedural areas and ensures sterile processing staff perform the decontamination, assembly, and sterilization of equipment, instruments and supplies following established procedures. Together with unit manager assists with all administrative processes, including human resources, budgeting, staffing, quality improvement planning and educational development programs.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Directs daily operations of the activities and initiatives in support of all Sterile Processing responsibilities, this includes decontamination, wrapping, sterilization of instruments and infection control.
• Ensures all organizational activities and operations are carried out in compliance with local, state, federal regulations, Joint Commission, AAMI (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation) standards and laws governing Sterile Processing responsibilities.
• Rounds on OR (Operating Room) units and develops and maintains effective relationships and communications with Operating Room leaders and other key customers. Additionally, maintains an active/visible presence within Sterile Processing Department.
• Reviews productivity reports and other metrics in collaboration with Supervisors and Educator and implements development or applicable performance management, including supervising or developing action plans to support staff development.
• Provides effective oversight and serves as a resource to staff; and assesses the total resource needs (additional staffing, shift assignments and overtime) of the Sterile Processing department to maximize available personnel and resources to meet Sterile Processing department needs.
• Assists in monitoring established performance improvement systems to ensure the highest level of Sterile Processing standards are being met.
• Oversees the Sterile Processing Supervisors and ensures department and medical center policies are being adhered to and there is consistent application across the department.
• Reviews all staff corrective actions and performance management evaluations.
• Assists Sterile Processing Manager with the development of departmental goals, new hire evaluation process and promotes inter/intra departmental collaboration. Assists Sterile Processing Manager with the recruitment and retention of staff and facilitates staff meetings.
• Resolves escalated situations involving instrumentation and sterilization.

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Qualifications

Job Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED - Required
• Five (5) years of progressive supervising and Sterile Processing experience to include decontamination, wrapping, sterilization and infection control.
• Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST).

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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