Materials Specialist Ii-surgery - San Diego, United States - Sharp Healthcare

Sharp Healthcare

Verified Company

San Diego, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

[Associate's Degree

Hours

Shift Start Time:

Variable

Shift End Time:

Variable

Additional Shift Information:

8 hour work shift

Weekend Requirements:

No Weekends

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):
$ $ $36.136

What You Will Do
Provides for the organization, maintenance and purchase of equipment and supplies. Assures the monitoring of the environment. Maintains records of equipment use, repair and preventative maintenance. Orders and tracks issue requests. Assists with preparation of capital budget. Serves as resource to operate and trouble shoot patient care equipment.

Required Qualifications
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2 Years experience in hospital materials/equipment or purchasing departments or similar experience that can transfer to equipment/materials.

Preferred Qualifications

Associate's Degree

Essential Functions

Budget management

Demonstrates the ability to proactively communicate with other healthcare team members to provide information relevant to the financial issues associated with equipment and supplies.

Provides financial data for calculating cost of use and ROI.
Follows through as directed to follow up on issues and concerns identified as financial trends are analyzed.

Participates in the budgetary process by communicating to the healthcare team concerns and issues related to new capital and supply purchases.

Completes paperwork associated with purchase, contacts vendors for bids

Equipment maintenance

Develops, organizes, and maintains records related to equipment in the areas of responsibility.

Provides for appropriate turnaround time when equipment is out of service for repair or maintenance, following up as needed with other departments.

Communicates with the other members of the healthcare team to ensure that equipment repairs and maintenance are completed in a timely fashion
Establish and monitor preventative maintenance schedules for equipment not covered by biomed

Equipment purchasing

Demonstrates an understanding the capital equipment and equipment purchaser process.
Is a resources when confronted with new or problematic situations with equipment or supplies
Collaborates with leadership and clinical staff in making decisions related to purchase of equipment.
Arranges evaluation of equipment for capital consideration, assures availability and collection of evaluation forms from users

Operation of equipment

Provides education to staff by working with educator to arrange Staff inservices and review of technical manuals
Maintains department equipment manuals per JCAHO requirements
Maintains sufficient knowledge/skill to help troubleshoot equipment operations
Demonstrates ability to help teach equipment use to staff.

Patient care supplies

In collaboration with other departments and unit Leadership team provides for the establishment and maintenance of par levels of patient care supplies to support the clinical needs of the units.

Continuously assess the need for minor equipment purchase, rental to provide for the clinical needs of the patients served, assure delivery and documentation in time for patient care.

Assures correct PAR levels of specialty stock
Completes specialty orders for implants, tissue and completes required documentation

Safety

Assess the work environment for safety issues and reports findings.
Identifies educational needs for clinical staff to promote patient safety.
Provides for appropriate documentation of education provided.
Collaborates with manager to develop plan of action to resolve identified safety concern
Makes weekly safety rounds to assure compliance with JCAHO EOC standards, serves as department safety representative

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class