Brief Job Description: Healthcare professionals who are responsible for functions of decontamination, assembly and sterile processing, sterile storage, and distribution. They direct other personnel in department for sterilization, cleaning and disinfection process.

Personal Attributes: The job requires individuals to have good communication and ability to handle a high level of stress and activity while managing fast-paced office duties. The job requires individuals to possess key qualities such as confidence, maturity, compassion, patient centricity, active listening, compassion, strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team; capability to handle work pressure with cool mind, be focused and attention to detail, eager to learn and update knowledge.

 NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS

1. Facilitate effective cleaning functions in CSSD

2. Facilitate effective functioning of steam steriliser

3. Manage availability, effectiveness and reprocessing of reusable medical devices

4. Sterilise loads of CSSD

5. Facilitate effective low temperature steriliser function

6. Maintain interpersonal relationship with colleagues, patients and others

7. Maintain professional & medico-legal conduct

8. Maintain a safe, healthy and secure working environment

9. Follow biomedical waste disposal and infection control policies and procedures