Sterile Processing Technician

City of Hope

Duarte, CA

Job posting number: #7275795 (Ref:10026785)

Posted: August 27, 2024

Salary / Pay Rate: $22.57 - $33.42 / hour

Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Description

Join the transformative team atCity of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Position Summary

We are seeking a detail-oriented and dedicated Sterile Processing Technician to join our team. In this crucial role, you will be responsible for sterilizing, processing, and maintaining supplies, instruments, and equipment in a fast-paced healthcare environment, ensuring the highest quality of care for our patients. This opportunity is for 8-hour shifts and is designated for the evening shift, with a 3:00pm start time. In addition to base pay, the evening shift differential is up to $1.90/hr.

Up to $5,000 Sign-on Bonus Available!

As a successful candidate, you will:

  • Supply Sterilization:Perform the decontamination, cleaning, disinfection, assembly, and sterilization of medical instruments, supplies, and equipment using approved sterilization techniques and equipment.
  • Supply Restocking:Replenish and maintain storage of supplies and case cart systems to ensure the availability of sterile equipment and instruments for surgical and medical procedures.
  • Inventory Control:Manage inventory control procedures, including labeling and proper documentation of sterilized packages, and monitor inventory levels to meet departmental needs.
  • GI Scope Processing:Process and maintain endoscopic instruments, including GI scopes, to the highest standards, ensuring patient safety and infection control.
  • Quality Assurance:Report faulty equipment, deficiencies in procedures, and non-compliance with sterilization standards, contributing to the safety and quality of patient care.
  • Educational Participation:Actively participate in educational programs and in-service meetings to stay updated on best practices, new technologies, and changes in sterilization protocols.
  • Timeliness:Perform all duties efficiently and under urgent timelines to support surgical schedules and patient care.

Your qualifications should include:

  • Post High School Vocational/Specialized Training.
  • Experience may substitute for minimum education requirements.
  • Certified Registered Central Service Technician or 1 year of sterile processing experience in an acute care setting.
  • Maintains knowledge in surgical and medical technology through inservices/courses.
  • BLS (through the American Heart Association), is required.
  • CRCST (Certified Registered Central Service Technician) is preferred.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, pleaseclick here.

To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, pleaseclickhere.

Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $22.57 - $33.42 / hour

The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.



City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.


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Job posting number:#7275795 (Ref:10026785)
Application Deadline:Open Until Filled
Employer Location:City of Hope
Duarte,California
United States
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