At Legacy, our mission is to make life better—for our patients, our community, and each other. As a Central Sterile Implant Specialist, you embody this mission every day by ensuring a sterile, clean, and safe environment that supports the highest quality medical and surgical care.

By building your legacy within our healthcare community, your keen attention to detail and dedication to patient safety will have a meaningful impact. Beyond ensuring the proper sterilization of instruments and equipment, you will also play a key role in driving improvement by identifying opportunities for change, expanding your knowledge of the technician role, and mentoring new team members with your expertise.

• Collaborates with Central Sterile and Operating Room (OR) teams to ensure availability of surgical implants and related instrumentation for procedures.

• Proactively checks upcoming OR schedules to identify implant and instrument needs in advance.

• Coordinates intra-facility loan and borrow processes for instruments and equipment.

• Monitors and tracks patient-specific implants, consignment items, and instrumentation daily.

• Follows up on all implant and equipment transactions to meet OR patient care expectations.

• Requests and monitors pre-authorizations for high-profile or designated supplies, equipment, and implants.

• Creates and routes requisitions in Lawson; serves as a resource for locating hard-to-find items.

• Coordinates the return of unused implant-related items with vendors or internal departments.

• Collaborates with CS staff, OR team, Receiving, Accounting, and vendors to resolve invoice and receiving discrepancies, working alongside the Surgical and Interventional Services Business Coordinator.

• Tracks and maintains documentation for loans, borrows, transfers, repairs, consignments, and Patient Specific Product (PSP) transactions.

• Actively follows up on back-ordered implants and instruments, ensuring timely resolution of delays.

• Provides input into budget development and supports cost-effective practices; assists with tracking financial issues and capital instrument purchases.

• Audits post-case charges and ensures correct patient-specific implant pricing is recorded on charge sheets.

• Manages equipment and instrument repairs in coordination with Biomedical Engineering or vendors, ensuring rapid turnaround or substitutions.

• Works with Patient Business Services on billing, reconciliation, reporting, and auditing issues.

• Oversees acquisition, delivery, return, and reconciliation of surgical implants used in the OR or processed through Central Sterile.

• Recommends cost-effective sourcing of supplies without compromising patient care quality.

• Provides cost and pricing information to management and updates the charge master system as needed.

• Routes incomplete or unclear charting related to implants to managers for staff education follow-up.

• Supports education efforts for new equipment and supplies; collects data on product efficacy and facilitates implementation.

• Serves as a troubleshooting resource for staff dealing with equipment issues.

• Verifies and documents delivery and pick-up of PSP items; audits PSP documentation across shifts.

• Maintains and updates the Central Sterile Instrument Tracking System.

• Assists with initiating NPI processes for consignments and PSPs in collaboration with Surgical Specialty Charge Nurses.

• Manages non-stock implant orders, deliveries, and set placements.

• Oversees and audits the Loan/Borrow process for accuracy and compliance.

• Monitors and reorders implant backstock as needed to support surgical needs.

Education:

• Requires high school diploma or equivalent.
• One to two years’ college education in business or health-related field, or related experience in distribution or inventory of medical supplies and equipment preferred.

Experience:

• Two years' experience with any combination of Surgical Scrub Tech, Central Sterile Tech, and/or procurement of supplies, services and equipment preferably in a hospital setting required. 
• Prior experience with surgical instrumentation strongly preferred.

Skills:

• Keyboard skills and ability to navigate electronic systems applicable to job functions.
• Medical terminology & knowledge of medical supplies and equipment required. 
• Requires familiarity with purchasing and inventory control standards and practices, ability to effectively speak, read and write English. 
• Must demonstrate attention to detail.

Our Legacy is good for health for Our People, Our Patients, Our Communities, Our World. Above all, we will do the right thing.

If you are passionate about our mission and believe you can contribute to our team, we encourage you to apply—even if you don't meet every qualification listed. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can grow and succeed.

Legacy Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion or creed, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To learn more about our employee benefits click here: www.legacyhealth.org/For-Health-Professionals/careers/benefiting-you