Description
Healthcare Support is seeking a travel Sterile Processing Technician for a travel job in Spokane, Washington.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Sterile Processing Technician
- Discipline: Allied HealthProfessional
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days, evenings
- Employment Type: Travel
🧼 Sterile Processing Technician (SPD) – Experienced Traveler Assignment
Location: Spokane, WA
Facility Type: Level III Trauma Center | Short-Term Acute Care
Assignment Type: Travel Contract
Start Date: ASAP
⚠️ IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS – READ BEFORE APPLYING
- Minimum 2 years SPD experience REQUIRED
- Travel experience REQUIRED (minimum 2 years)
- Epic experience REQUIRED
- Must hold one of the following certifications:
- HSPA / IAHCSMM
- CBSPD
- Experienced travelers only
- No 48-hour schedules approved
- No block scheduling
💰 Compensation & Details
- Competitive weekly pay (based on experience)
- Occasional weekends required
- No on-call
- Parking provided at no cost
🩺 Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Sterile Processing Technician for a fast-paced Level III Trauma Center. This role requires strong experience in decontamination, high-level disinfection, instrument assembly, sterilization monitoring, and specialty tray processing across a wide range of surgical services.
🔧 Key Responsibilities
- Decontaminate, inspect, assemble, sterilize, and distribute surgical instruments and trays
- Perform high-level disinfection (HLD) and scope reprocessing
- Operate washers, sterilizers, ultrasonic cleaners, AERs, Sterrad, and Steris equipment
- Maintain accurate instrument tracking using SPM (Sterile Processing Microsystem)
- Follow aseptic technique and sterilization monitoring procedures
- Support OR workflow and maintain compliance with infection control standards
🧪 Required Experience
Experience with:
- Acute Hospital OR environments
- Robotics
- Trauma
- Orthopedics / Total Joints
- Cardiac
- Transplant
- OB/GYN
- Urology
- Plastics
- ENT
- Vascular
🔬 Scope & Endoscope Reprocessing
Must have experience with:
- Bronchoscopes
- Colonoscopes
- ERCP scopes
- EBUS / EUS scopes
- Cystoscopes
- Uteroscopes
- Endoscopic ultrasound scopes
⚙️ Required Equipment Experience
- Steris equipment
- Sterrad systems
- Washers & sterilizers
- Ultrasonic cleaners
- Instrument tracking systems (SPM)
- Automated Endoscope Reprocessors (AER)
🎯 Required Skills
- Tray assembly and organization
- Proper wrapping and labeling procedures
- Biological and chemical indicators
- Steam sterilization testing and monitoring
- Loaner tray processing
- Equipment documentation
- Scope/probe reprocessing
📋 Scheduling & Compliance
- Orientation: 40 hours (non-billable)
- Two pre-approved RTO periods allowed
- All RTO must be submitted upfront
- Floating to nearby sister facilities may be required
📌 Submission Requirements
- Last 4 of SSN required
- Must include:
- All RTO requests upfront
- Providence facility history (if applicable)
- 2 references required covering last 3 years
🏥 Facility Information
- EMR: Epic
- Scrubs:
- Any color allowed
- Surgical Services/SPD scrubs provided
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About Healthcare Support
Healthcare Support excels at providing a streamlined and red-carpet experience for our travelers. Whether you are a nurse, a therapist, or an allied health professional, our goal is to connect you with top-rated facilities throughout the country and get you on the road to your next adventure. We leverage 20 years of relationships with the industry's most respectable companies across all 50 states, both through direct client partnerships and via national MSP programs. From health systems and hospitals to specialty clinics and post-acute facilities, you can work where you want to work and go where you want to go.
Not only does HealthCare Support reimburse for relocation and travel costs on your first check, but we also offer license and certification reimbursements required for your assignments so that you can focus on building your career. During your assignment, you'll have access to medical benefits, 24/7 support from our Clinical Advocacy Team, and a travel team with stateside operations. Your travel team will include a designated credentialing expert to help you navigate every step of the on-boarding process, a payroll specialist who you can communicate with directly, and a skilled recruiter who takes the time to understand your needs and works hard to find the right position for you.
Don't get lost in the shuffle of another overblown staffing agency. Choose HealthCare Support to be your trusted partner that you can rely on for all your travel assignments. We can't wait to hear about the amazing adventures you'll have!
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Benefits
- License and certification reimbursement
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Mileage reimbursement
- Employee assistance programs
- Referral bonus
- 401k retirement plan
- Holiday Pay
- Weekly pay
