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Materials Specialist II - Surgery - TNP - Sharp Memorial - Full Time

Sharp, San Diego, CA, United States


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JR205640**Hours:****Shift Start Time:**Variable**Shift End Time:**Variable**AWS Hours Requirement:**8/40 - 8 Hour Shift**Additional Shift Information:****Weekend Requirements:**No Weekends**On-Call Required:**No**Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):**$26.130 - $32.670 - $36.590This position is covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with SEIU-UHW. As part of the terms of employment, employees in this role are required to join the union within 31 days of hire and remain a member (e.g. dues paying, fee paying, religious exception contributor) for the duration of the collective bargaining agreement.

**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*** 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 classSharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit health care system based in San Diego, California, with four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups and a health plan. We provide medical services in virtually all fields of medicine, including primary care, heart care, cancer, orthopedics, women’s health, rehabilitation, robotic surgery and bariatric surgery.Sharp sets the community standard for exceptional care. Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital have received prestigious Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care.At the heart of our organization are more than 18,000 affiliated physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers who are on a journey to make health care better for our patients and their families. It’s what we call The Sharp Experience – treating each person with dignity, compassion and respect, and using our clinical excellence and advanced technology to deliver the highest-quality patient care. We are dedicated to transforming the health care experience by making Sharp the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care in San Diego.
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