Instrument Technician

3 weeks ago

Seattle, Washington, United States University of Washington Full time
Job Title: Instrument Technician

We are seeking a highly skilled Instrument Technician to join our team at the University of Washington Medical Center. As an Instrument Technician, you will play a critical role in ensuring the highest quality of patient care by processing and sterilizing complex surgical instruments and equipment.

Responsibilities:
  • Decontaminate, process, sterilize, and assemble complex arrangements of specialized and intricate surgical instruments, equipment, and supplies for surgical procedures.
  • Prioritize the need for instruments, equipment, and supplies based on scheduled surgical cases, surgeries in process, and surgical cases added during the work schedule.
  • Identify and sort contaminated instruments and equipment to protect delicate instruments and to clean items completely.
  • Disassemble and reassemble items with multiple parts.
  • Recognize disassembled parts of intricate instruments and equipment and reassemble and/or return to the appropriate trays.
  • Determine and use the appropriate decontamination procedure.
  • Disassemble and decontaminate equipment and instruments using approved disinfectants, detergents, soaps, cleaners, and processing methods.
  • Collect and dispose of large volumes of biohazardous waste materials from surgical procedures.
  • Inspect, test, reassemble, test for proper functioning, package, label, and date instrumentation and equipment.
  • Serve as a liaison between the surgical services staff, clinics, and Central Sterile Supply Department staff to communicate status of requests for instruments and equipment.
  • Provide technical support and assistance to operating room staff within a sterile environment regarding the assembly and operation of surgical instruments, equipment, and supplies.
Requirements:
  • High school graduation or equivalent.
  • One to two years of experience processing complex trays of surgical instruments and equipment.
About Us:

The University of Washington Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Seattle with two campuses: Montlake and Northwest. As the No. 1 hospital in Seattle and Washington State since 2012 (U.S. News & World Report) and nationally ranked in six specialties, UW Medical Center prides itself on compassionate patient care as well as its pioneering medical advances.

The UW Medical Center–Northwest campus offers emergency and inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical, and therapeutic care. It is located in north Seattle on a beautiful, easy-to-access 44-acre campus that includes the neighboring Northwest Outpatient Medical Center and Specialty Care Meridian Pavilion.

UW Medicine is Washington's only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. Our mission is to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow's physicians, scientists, and other health professionals.

We are an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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