Aide - or Instrumentation

Position Profile:
**Humber River Health. Lighting New Ways In Healthcare.**

Since opening our doors in 2015 as North America’s first fully digital hospital, we remain unwavering in our belief that we can change the hospital where we work, the community where we live, and the world of healthcare beyond our borders. Serving a community of 850,000 residents in North West Toronto, Equity Inclusivity and active participation in the North West Toronto Ontario Health Team are key initiatives important to our Team. At Humber River Health, we use a custom combination of technology and clinical expertise to rebuild elements of care. We make technology work for staff and physicians; giving them more time to spend with patients, to eliminate inefficiencies, and to reduce the chance of errors. Humber River Health is formally affiliated with both the University of Toronto and Queen’s University and committed to becoming a community academic hospital. Clinical Excellence, Optimizing Care through Technology and Community Connection frame our Research Strategy.

At Humber River Health, we’re not hoping for a renaissance, we are making it happen. As part of our dynamic team, you can lead the way, as we continue our journey towards high reliability care

**Join our Sterile Processing Department as we work together to deliver compassionate, professional and respectful care that is responsive to the healthcare needs of our community.**

We are looking for an **Aide - Operating Room (OR) Instrumentation** to support our Sterile Processing Department

**Hiring Rate Range**: $25.552 - $26.043

**Shift**: Must be available for all rotating shifts (days, evenings, nights) on weekdays, weekends and statutory holidays.

**Location**: Humber River Health, Wilson Site

**Employee Group**: NOWU

**Responsibilities**:

- In accordance with the principles of infection control, decontamination, sterilization, and aseptic techniques, and established policies, procedures, and safety standards:

- Inspection, testing, setting up and maintaining all hardware and trays needed by the Operating Room and or other departments in the hospital
- Performs routine preventive maintenance on medical devices, equipment, and supplies. Identifies damaged or malfunctioning medical devices, equipment, and supplies. Reports, records, initiates, and follows up on repairs to faulty medical devices, equipment, and supplies as required
- Receives, sorts, disassembles, tests, cleans and high level disinfects endoscopy
- Assembly based on computerized instrument tracking system and prints labels to adhere to tray, peel pouch and containers
- Receives, fills, and delivers urgent and routine requests for medical devices, supplies, and equipment for the OR and/or other patient areas
- Decontamination and sterilization of instruments, hardware and case cart picking may be required
- Transporting, medical/surgical equipment, case carts etc. may be required
- Adheres to departmental and Hospital policy and procedures
- Performs routine cleaning/sanitation of work stations/areas, storage areas, processing machines, and equipment
- Performs related clerical duties such as maintaining records, answering telephones, filing, data entry, and information retrieval from computer
- Assists with orientation and training of new staff and students
- Distribution and collection of supplies, instruments, trays, etc. from the entire hospital and reprocessing in the appropriate way may be required
- Performs other related duties as assigned

**Qualifications**:

- Grade 12 or equivalent required
- Completion of Medical Device Reprocessing Certificate from a Canadian Accredited Community College.
- Current registration by the Medical Device Reprocessing Association of Ontario (MDRAO)
- Two years recent experience including but not limited to: reprocessing, decontamination, sterilization, inspection, testing, setting up, maintaining, transporting distribution and collection of trays, case carts, medical instruments, equipment, and hardware required
- Good working knowledge of medical supplies, instruments, hardware, and sterilization equipment required
- Knowledge of surgical and medical terminology
- Good command of the English Language (both verbal and written) required
- Demonstrated ability to follow instructions and work with mínimal supervision
- Ability to operate, with training, machinery, i.e. sterilizers
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the position in order to perform the essential duties of the job which requires lifting/pushing (up to 25 lbs) and standing (up to 7.5 hours) for extended periods of time
- Must be able to work with organic and inorganic residues such as blood and other bodily fluids and secretions seen on medical devices
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills, and the ability to work alone or as a part a team
- Excellent attendance and discipline free record required

**Why choose Humber River Health?**

At Humber River Health, our staff, physicians