Sterile Processing Technician 2


Job Identification: 672524
Posting Date: 08/19/2025, 04:49 PM
Job Schedule: Full time
Locations:

Job Description:
Fairfax Hospital - Sterile Processing | Sterile Processing Technician 2 | Full-Time FT 2:30p-11:00p, Rotating Weekends, T2 = 1 week on day shift

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and remote and hybrid career opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Decontaminates instruments in a safe and appropriate manner.
• Unloads case carts, checking all items for red tags.
• Properly sorts instrumentation and selects the proper processing mechanisms (manual and mechanical) to ensure the integrity of and prevent damage to the items.
• Prepares instrumentation for the decontamination process, including flushing lumens, exposing all surfaces, and properly loading washers.
• Operates washer/decontaminators, cart washers, sonic washers, and all other equipment in the decontamination area.
• Utilizes instrument tracking computer software to document all functions in the decontamination area.
• Assembles instrumentation accurately and efficiently.
• Locates missing instrumentation and replaces repaired/ordered instrumentation in sets.
• Maintains stock levels in the assembly area.
• Loads items to be sterilized on the loading cart and records them on the load cart, adding a biological test to each load.
• Utilizes instrument tracking computer software to document all functions in the instrument assembly area.
• Inspects instruments and ensures that they are free from bio-burden and in proper working condition prior to assembling sets according to count sheets.
• Ensures sterility of all processed items.
• Selects the proper mode of sterilization for all items.
• Ensures the presence of all required chemical and biological indicators.
• Operates all sterilization equipment (Steam Sterrad, Steris).
• Validates sterilization process by reading, interpreting, and documenting all chemical and biological indicators.
• Utilizes instrument tracking computer software to document all functions related to sterilization.
• Maintains instruments inventory and ensures timely distribution of instruments to all customers.
• Maintains par levels of all individual items, instrument sets, procedure trays, and MSET boxes.
• Properly stores or distributes items ensuring that each item has been properly labeled and sterilized.
• Responds professionally and efficiently to all routine and urgent customer requests.
• Utilizes instrument tracking computer software to document all functions related to storage and distribution Manages instrument inventory and ensures timely distribution of instruments to all customers.
• Prioritizes instruments.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Certification - Certified Registered Central Service Technician Upon Start CRCST or CBSPD certification; Certification from The International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management (CRCST) or Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD).
• Experience - One-year Sterile Processing experience required.
• Education - High School or GED

About Us:
We are Inova, Northern Virginia's leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 25,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better - to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.

Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.


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