Facility: Sharp Memorial Hospital

　　City San Diego

　　Department

　　Job Status

　　Regular

　　Shift

　　Variable

　　FTE

　　1

　　Shift Start Time

　　Shift End Time

　　Associate's Degree

　　Hours

　　Shift Start Time:

　　Variable

　　Shift End Time:

　　Variable

　　Additional Shift Information:

　　8-hour shifts: 0500-1330,0830-1700,0900-1730,1100-1930

　　Weekend Requirements:

　　As Needed

　　On-Call Required:

　　Yes

　　Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

　　$24.091 - $30.113 - $36.136

　　The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

　　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 DegreeEssential Functions

　　Budget managementDemonstrates 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 maintenanceDevelops, 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 fashionEstablish and monitor preventative maintenance schedules for equipment not covered by biomed

　　Equipment purchasingDemonstrates an understanding the capital equipment and equipment purchaser process.Is a resources when confronted with new or problematic situations with equipment or suppliesCollaborates 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 equipmentProvides education to staff by working with educator to arrange Staff inservices and review of technical manualsMaintains department equipment manuals per JCAHO requirementsMaintains sufficient knowledge/skill to help troubleshoot equipment operationsDemonstrates ability to help teach equipment use to staff.

　　Patient care suppliesIn 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 stockCompletes specialty orders for implants, tissue and completes required documentation

　　SafetyAssess 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 concernMakes 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 class