Medical Supply Technician

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About the Position: Incumbent will decontaminate, prepare, sterilize, store, and issue the full range of sterile dental/medical supplies and equipment used in a Dental Clinic.

This is a Direct Hire Solicitation. Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) Generating transactions for procurement of sterile and unsterilized dental/medical supplies and equipment; 2) Decontaminating dental/medical instruments; 3) Inventorying dental/medical related supplies, equipment, and materials; and 4) Assembling, troubleshooting, preparing, and storing sterile and unsterilized dental/medical supplies and equipment.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Major Duties:

• Perform daily quality assurance testing on all equipment used in the cleaning and sterilization of surgical instruments.
• Account for and process surgical instruments to include complex loaner sets for scheduled and emergent cases.
• Check the expiration date on all sterile supply items, remove all outdated items, and rotate the stock.
• Monitor and track surgical instruments through the use of automated instrument tracking log/system.
• Document shortages of instruments and other sterile supplies according to organizational policy and guidelines.
• Examine items and instruments for damage, deterioration or imperfection.
• Test, flush and clean, laparoscopic instruments' insulation and suction ports.
• Select the appropriate sterilization method based upon manufacture requirements and recommendations.
• Compare the control biological tests with the sterilizer's established parameters to determine appropriateness of sterilization process.
• Supervise the processing, assembling, and sterilizing of intricate surgical trays for the operating room.