Processing Assistant Jobs in Louisiana (NOW HIRING)

Your job is more than a job

Are you a Surgical Technologist who loves the precision, purpose, and behindthescenes impact of Sterile Processing? Want to use your expertise outside the OR while still playing a critical role in patient safety? This position gives you the best of both worlds - handson technical work plus opportunities to support daily operations and team workflow.

Join our Sterile Processing Department and bring your surgical knowledge to a place where it truly shines.

What You'll Do

As a Surgical Technologist in Sterile Processing, you'll be a key player in ensuring every instrument that reaches a patient is safe, sterile, and ready for use.

You'll also help guide the team and support the manager with daily workflow needs.

You will:

• Participate in receiving, processing, delivering, tracking, and preparing safe instrumentation for hospital and patient use
• Decontaminate and sterilize instruments, medical supplies, and equipment
• Assemble, wrap, and sterilize instrument trays with accuracy and attention to detail
• Follow all Standard Precautions in decontamination and sterilization areas
• Monitor biological and chemical wash solutions to ensure consistent, highquality processing
• Use the instrument tracking system to update and maintain accurate instrument details
• Perform basic equipment troubleshooting before escalating to Biomed or OEM
• Provide direction and coordination to personnel during assigned shifts
• Provide daily station assignments to support smooth departmental workflow
• Assist with quality assessments and help identify training and educational opportunities for staff

What You'll Need

Minimum

• Graduate of an accredited Surgical Technologist program
• Current BLS certification

Preferred

• Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) - NBSTSA
• Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) - HSPA
• Previous experience as a Surgical Technologist

WORK SHIFT:

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little "come on in" attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health's culture of everyday extraordinary

About West Jefferson Medical Center

West Jefferson Medical Center, a cornerstone of LCMC Health's incredible community of care, is regionally recognized and nationally accredited. For over 60 years, we've been the hospital-of-choice on the west bank of Jefferson Parish for health, wellness, and family-centered care. Learn more about West Jefferson Medical Center and our Leapfrog "Grade A" Hospital Safety distinction

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems - it's all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

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