Instrumentation Specialist at King's Daughters – Ashland, Kentucky

This position provides leadership and direction across the organization for the care of handling of sterile instrumentation to maintain compliance with regulatory standards, is responsible for the fiscal and operational budgets for instrument inventory management, vendor loaner and consignment set management and instrument repairs. This position functions as the SPM information system administrator and is responsible for quality metric data analysis and reporting.

• Functions as the SPM information system administrator.
• Maintains data integrity and ensures all instruments and instrument trays with appropriate quantities and, instrument tray inventory sheets are accurately entered into SPM and updated as needed.
• Works collaboratively with the Revenue Specialist, materials management and operating room staff to ensure instrumentation in the EPIC database is accurate and has the appropriate quantity.
• Provides direction to the SPD leads and staff to forecast instrumentation needs for the daily surgical and procedural schedules.
• Provides in the moment support as well as to observe processes to ensure compliance with care and handling of instrument policies and procedures through daily rounding in surgical and procedural areas.
• Utilizes SPM to collect data, develop reports and analyze results relative to identified quality metrics, forecasting instrument needs and providing productivity data for the Sterile Processing Director.
• Prepares budgetary quotes to obtain or replace instrument inventory in conjunction with the Perioperative Business Manager
• Acts as a direct liaison between managers, physicians, OR service line leads, OR staff and sterile processing staff to vendor and professional representatives of surgical supply companies.
• Works directly with physicians, materials, and service line leads to coordinate instrumentation requests and maintain contract compliance.
• Coordinates with Bio-Med and Facilities Departments to maintain all new and current equipment.
• Ensures department compliance with all regulatory standards specific to the care, handling and storage of sterile instruments in conjunction with the Sterile Processing Director.
• Manages, tracks and coordinates all loaner instrumentation to ensure timely arrival and processing for scheduled procedures.
• Develops a vendor compliance report and provides results at determined intervals to the Sterile Processing Director, Perioperative Business Manager, Materials Management and Executive Director Perioperative Services.
• Supports Perioperative Educators in coordinating required education for new and existing instrumentation.

• Minimum requirement:
  • Graduate from a Sterile Processing Department or Surgical Technology Program or Military training as a Surgical Tech with a minimum of two years acute care experience as an SPD or Surgical Tech
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Working knowledge of Excel
  • Certified Registered Central Services Technician certification (CRCST)
  • Certified Instrument Specialist (CIS)
• Preferred qualifications:
  • ​​​​​Previous Instrument management experience.
  • One year experience in hospital setting or related experience and/or training.

• Constantly works near moving mechanical parts
• Constantly exposed to blood and/or body fluids and infection.
• Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals
• Occasionally exposed to risk of radiation
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

• Occasionally required to maintain in a stationary position (standing or sitting).
• Frequently required to walk and move about.
• Frequently required to operate a computer and other equipment.
• Frequently required to use fine motor skills to handle and operate instruments/devices.
• Constantly required to lift and/or move items up to 10 pounds.
• Frequently required to lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 100 pounds.
• Constantly required to communicate with patients and other care team requiring talking and hearing.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Occasionally required to position self in order to meet patient needs.