Sterile Processing Project Manager - Hybrid at Mass General Brigham Medical Group in Salem, New Hampshire

Job Description:

About Us



Mass General Brigham Medical Group (MGBMG) represents the merger of separate community medical groups within the Mass General Brigham system into one harmonized and high-performing organization:


Brigham and Women's Harbor Medical Associates
Cooley Dickinson Medical Group
Mass General Brigham Community Physicians
Mass General Brigham Integrated Care
Newton Wellesley Medical Group
North Shore Physicians Group
Pentucket Medical Associates
Wentworth Douglass Health Partners


This work stems from Mass General Brigham's unified system strategy to bring high quality health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. MGBMG provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, behavioral and mental health, specialty care, outpatient surgery, endoscopy, imaging, lab services, infusion, and urgent care both digitally and in person in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.



The Opportunity



Reporting to the Director of Sterile Processing, this position manages the functions and resources of the high-level disinfection and sterilization practice to achieve established goals and outcomes. The Project Manager, Sterile Processing develops and organizes information focused on standardizing best practices related to instrument and endoscope reprocessing, training, data reporting, resource utilization, facilities planning, and quality assurance efforts in locations across the MGB MG Procedural & Ancillary locations. The role is expected to organize and lead multidisciplinary project teams, providing project management planning, tools, solutions, and communications to stakeholders by convening representation from Procedural & Ancillary Services, Sterile Processing, Infection Control, Quality and Patient Safety, Biomedical Engineering, and other key stakeholders as necessary. The incumbent may collaborate extensively with Physicians, Finance, Sterile Processing, Nursing, Administrative Directors and Managers, and PHS resources to execute initiatives. The role is expected to lend support to organize and help direct project teams in the Sterile Processing Department and will intermittently participate in Procedural Services initiatives.



Job Duties

• Maintain documentation systems as processes evolve and become more standardized; develop a deep
  
  
  familiarity with SPM instrument tracking software and other record keeping applications to appreciate underused
  
  
  capabilities for structuring improvements in departmental workflows.
  
  


• Collaborates with stakeholders to prepare comprehensive unit-specific remediation plans that may include the
  
  
  following elements, employee training, workflow development, inventory assessment and conversion, and
  
  
  design/construction.
  
  


• Provides the Director with executive support and develops communication campaigns for all process
  
  
  improvement activities.
  
  


• Assists in the implementation of operation standards, policies, and procedures related to the decontamination,
  
  
  reprocessing, sterilization, high-level disinfection, transportation and storage of inventoried items within the various
  
  
  reprocessing locations; actively audits workflows for compliance.
  
  


• Develop and maintain systems and documentation to monitor the efficiency and success of the sterile processing
  
  
  program improvement initiatives.
  
  

Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 to 4:30 pm with some flexibility



Hybrid: This position will require travel to various MGBMG sites through MA and NH two to three days per week.



Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent years experience


• Master's Degree preferred


• Project management or analyst role, with demonstrated advancement of responsibilities.


• Exposure to academic medical center environment, exposure to perioperative or sterile processing settings.

EEO Statement

Mass General Brigham is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives, and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Apply Now