Sterile Processing Clinical Coordinator

Who We Are
Mercy Ships is a global faith-based charity that uses hospital ships to bring life-changing surgeries and transformational medical training to people in some of the most challenging contexts along the African coast. For over 40 years, Mercy Ships has been delivering lasting hope and healing through safe surgical care, while working alongside partners and stakeholders to strengthen local healthcare systems in more than 55 countries. Since the inception of this dream by founders Don and Deyon Stephens in 1978, Mercy Ships has served more than 2.7 million direct beneficiaries without regard for race, gender, or religion.

Do you have a heart for the hurting and a desire to invest your talents and experiences into a mission with eternal significance? For every transformative surgery that takes place onboard one of our Mercy Ships, there are dozens of men and women being used of the Lord to prepare the way through their vocational gifts and talents!

This is a part-time, limited term role that is scheduled to end in December 2028. 

Job Summary and Overview

Mercy Ships is seeking a Sterile Processing Clinical Coordinator to plan and support the provision of sterile processing onboard Mercy Ships vessels. Responsible for staffing, equipment, and required stock for each field service. Manages sterilizing equipment procurement with the biomedical team. Ensures the highest standards of sterile processing practice are upheld following HSPA, ANSI/AAMI, CSA, and applicable international standards and guidelines. Develops policies and procedures as needed and ensures documents are current, comprehensive, and effective. Provides centralized sterilizing clinical support to both the Africa Mercy (AFM) and Global Mercy (GLM) departments.

How You Will Contribute:

Clinical

• Support the execution of hospital, programmatic, and organizational objectives in a systematic and structured way.
• Develop policies and procedures as needed and ensure documents are current, comprehensive, and effective. 
• Provides strategic, clinical, and operational leadership for sterile processing services across Mercy Ships vessels
• Contribute to a departmental plan to ensure hospital objectives are met.
• Utilize monitoring tools to track and report on the performance of the service line. Create tools if none exist. 
• Maintain and administer the SteMaTo instrument tracking database, ensuring data accuracy, standardization, and system integrity across Mercy Ships operations.
• Coordinate the creation, modification, and auditing of instrument sets, inventory records, user permissions, and workflow configurations within the SteMaTo system.
• Support troubleshooting, upgrades, testing, and implementation of enhancements to the SteMaTo instrument tracking platform.
• Regularly identify growth initiatives, advocate for best practices and integrate them into a continuous improvement plan. 
• Coordinate with the biomedical team for equipment preventative maintenance, repair, and replacement. Participate in commissioning, validation, and performance qualification of new equipment. Review equipment, lifecycle planning and replacement strategies.
• Provide input for the annual budget of the Hospital.
• Provide Clinical Governance related to quality, safety, clinical performance and effectiveness 
• Project work (e.g., electronic health record development, ensure sterile processing readiness for field services, annual maintenance periods, new ship department design, new ship equipping)

Staffing

• Review applicants for sterile processing position qualifications.
• Document needed positions in the staffing formation for each vessel.
• Select candidates to fill staffing plans.
• Liaise with P&C teams as per current staffing processes.
• Assist with the development of recruitment strategy for sterile processing positions
• Attend industry conferences as appropriate
• Other duties as assigned
• Maintains alignment and upholds Mercy Ships Core Values, Code of Conduct, and follows the policies and procedures published on Compass. 
• Follows the model of Jesus and aligns with our core values by Loving God; Loving and Serving Others; Being a Person of Integrity; and a Person of Excellence in all you say and do.
• Other duties may be assigned that are not included in the information provided in this job description. 

Ideal Candidate:

• Written and oral fluency in English is required.
• Able to be a self-starter, detail-oriented, and organized. 
• Able to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. 
• May require travel to the International Support Center and to the vessels.
• Previous experience with instrument and sterile supplies management and knowledge of universal precautions, required.
• Previous experience with a computerized instrument tracking system required.

Education and/or Experience;

• Current active Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) certification or international equivalent in home country.
• Minimum two years full-time experience following licensure in an acute hospital setting.
• Managerial experience in Central Sterilization Department in an acute hospital setting preferred.
• Mercy Ships Alumni preferred.
• Prior experience with computerized instrument tracking systems is essential.
• Successful completion of On Boarding (Gateway) program. 

Pour your God-given talents into a mission with eternal return on investment -- join the Mercy Ships Crew, today! This is a paid position. To explore our many Mercy Ships volunteer opportunities, please visit us at: https://www.mercyships.org/get-involved/volunteer/