Sterile Processing Coordinator

Position Summary

🔥 STERILE PROCESSING COORDINATOR

Lead the Process. Protect the Standard. Impact Every Procedure.

📍 Brookwood Medical Hospital2022 Brookwood Medical Ctr DrHomewood, AL 35209

🕐 Schedule: Full-Time | Days

Behind every successful surgical procedure is a Sterile Processing team making sure the right instruments are clean, complete, sterilized, ready, and where they need to be.

If you're an experienced Sterile Processing professional who understands that quality, precision, leadership, and patient safety go hand in hand, this could be your next opportunity.

We're looking for a Sterile Processing Coordinator to help coordinate daily department activities while bringing strong technical knowledge across the full sterilization process, from cleaning and decontamination through packaging, sterilization, and distribution.

About Baptist Health Medical Group

Baptist Health Medical Group is a physician-led group established on a foundation of compassionate care and clinical excellence. Guided by this commitment to compassion and excellence, our teams of physicians, advanced practice professionals, nurses, clinicians and office staff work together to meet every patient’s total healthcare needs.

As part of Baptist Health’s extensive network of comprehensive healthcare services, Baptist Health Medical Group is committed to providing the community easy access to integrated care. Our expansive range of practices offer close-to-home locations and convenient appointment options.

Providing expert care in over 18 areas of focus — from primary care to specialty institutes — Baptist Health Medical Group includes more than 600 physicians and advanced practice professionals.

Baptist Health Offers Great NEW Competitive Pay and Great Benefits Package that Includes:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Paid Time Off (up to 5 weeks to start)
• Life Insurance
• Extended Leave Plan (ELP)
• Family Care (childcare, elder care, pet care)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Pet Insurance
• Car Insurance
• Educational Benefits including tuition reimbursement & monthly payments to help pay down any graduated school debt

ALL BENEFITS START DAY ONE

Responsibilities

💥 What You'll Do

This isn't just about processing instruments. You'll help keep an essential operation moving.

In this role, you will:

• Help ensure instrument trays meet the needs of individual surgical procedures
• Provide supervision across Case Cart, SPD, and Core
• Coordinate the daily processing of Case Cart supplies and instruments
• Work with vendors to help ensure their trays are complete and sterilized
• Serve as an important connection between OR personnel and Sterile Processing when instrument or supply issues arise
• Help ensure borrowed instrumentation and equipment are processed and turned over in a timely manner
• Assist with interviewing, selecting, hiring, and orienting SPD team members
• Help identify educational needs and encourage continued professional development
• Participate in performance improvement and quality assurance activities
• Support personnel functions including work assignments, coaching plans, and disciplinary actions

Qualifications

🎯 What We're Looking For

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent

Experience

• 5 years of experience in Central Processing/Surgical Services

• Prior experience managing a case cart delivery system and daily Sterile Processing and Distribution operations ain one of the following certifications:

• CRCST through HSPA

• CHL through IAHCSMM

• CSPDT through CBSPD

• CSPDM through CBSPD

• CSPM through CBSPD