Sterile Processing Educator

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Requisition Number:

Regular or Temporary: Regular

Location:Raleigh, NC, US, 27609

Personnel Area: DUKE RALEIGH CAMPUS

Date: Nov 18, 2025

At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.

About Duke Raleigh Hospital, A Campus of Duke University Hospital

Pursue your passion for caring with the Duke Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 204-beds, it is the third largest of Duke Healthcare's four hospitals and offers a comprehensive array of services, including cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal, and wound healing care.

General Description of the Job Class

• Develops Sterile Processing educational programs regarding proper decontamination, disinfection, and sterilization methods.
• Collaborates with Sterile Processing Departments (SPD) to ensure Sterile Processing staff, are properly trained and operating within the guidelines set forth by various industry standards and regulations including, but not limited to HSPA, CBSPD, AORN, The Joint Commission, FDA, CDC, OSHA, and AAMI.

Duties and Responsibilities of this Level

• Responsible for staff training and continuous assessments of skills and knowledge to include decontamination, instrument tray assembly, instrument tray storage, sterilization processes and standard precautions to ensure patient safety. Performs new hire staff orientation.
• Facilitates individual, team and department performance management that include competency development and evaluation, change management processes, work and accountability processes, performance consultation and mentoring staff, and development of job/performance aids.
• Provides programs that support staff's ability to learn, adapt and change swiftly as new technology emerges and clinical practice evolves.
• Performs random proactive quality checks of instrument sets and case carts. Collects data for tray errors, missing instrument, documents and reports findings to SPD leadership. Develops training for staff to address identified gaps.
• Performs retroactive quality checks collects, tracks, researches, resolves and provides follow-up with SPD leadership on collected data related to instrumentation and supplies.
• Routinely works various shifts to perform quality checks and provide training to the off shifts.
• Develops program to monitor and review biological control culturing procedures for sterilizers to ensure equipment is operating according to standard.
• Develops and maintains a tracking system for materials and equipment prepared and issued by SPD in the event of a recall.
• Maintains a liaison with the operating room managers and staff on tray rightsizing and proper techniques for processing trays in the operating room in preparation for decontamination.
• Maintains documentation relating to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning, delivering, and managing training and development activities.
• Provides technical assistance to SPD staff for the assembly of complex surgical instrument sets and provides technical assistance to surgical techs and other Perioperative clinical staff for instrument related issues.
• Responsible for the knowledge-