Supervisor, MDRD

Position Profile

Humber River Health. Lighting New Ways In Healthcare.

Since opening our doors in 2015 as North America’s first fully digital hospital, we remain unwavering in our belief that we can change the hospital where we work, the community where we live, and the world of healthcare beyond our borders. Serving a community of 850,000 residents in North West Toronto, Equity Inclusivity and active participation in the North West Toronto Ontario Health Team are key initiatives important to our Team.

At Humber River Health, we use a custom combination of technology and clinical expertise to rebuild elements of care. We make technology work for staff and physicians; giving them more time to spend with patients, to eliminate inefficiencies, and to reduce the chance of errors. Humber River Health is formally affiliated with both the University of Toronto and Queen’s University and committed to becoming a community academic hospital.

Clinical Excellence, Optimizing Care through Technology and Community Connection frame our Research Strategy.

At Humber River Health, we’re not hoping for a renaissance, we are making it happen. As part of our dynamic team, you can lead the way, as we continue our journey towards high reliability care!

Join our Medical Device Reprocessing Department (MDRD) as we work together to deliver compassionate care that is responsive to the healthcare needs of our community.

We are currently hiring for the position of Supervisor, MDRD .

Employment Status: Permanent Full-Time Hours of Work: 8 hour Rotating Schedule (Days, Evenings and Nights) 7 days/week including holidays. Location: Wilson, Church and Finch Labour Group: Non Union

Houry Wage: $44.769-$55.998

Reporting Relationship: Manager, MDRD & Utility Aides

Responsibilities

Provide support to the Manager of MDRD with day-to-day co-ordination of activities, tasks, departmental updates, staff meetings and workload in the reprocessing department across all sites

Assist Manager of MDRD in supervising reprocessing in compliance with safety and materials handling requirements (OH&S, WHIMIS and SDS); supervises safety issues and staff injuries in collaboration with HR and OH&S departments.

Assist in maintaining and fostering an environment that is sensitive to the diversity of internal and external communities

Assist in promoting team spirit, cohesiveness, motivation and commitment to service goals.

Assist in lead change effectively within the service(s)

As a resource person, works collaboratively with own staff and/or other staff in all clinical areas in problem solving administrative issues

Collaborate with and provide feedback to the Manager of MDRD on staffing matters, including staff performance, conduct and attendance

Assist the Manager of MDRD in preparing staff schedules, including approval of overtime, request for vacation or leaves in accordance with policies, procedures and collective agreement,

Liaise with department staff on day-to-day operations

Supervise and perform duties related to reprocessing medical devices, training, utilization of reprocessing equipment and new medical devices

Assist with utilizing allocated resources (staff, supplies, space, and equipment) to achieve the program vision, goals, and service objectives

Act as a coach, mentor, and role model, and leader to team members to provide them an environment where shared governance, empowerment and respect for diversity can grow

Assist with the development of synergistic service teams who are patient centered and outcome focused

Assist in identifying team and individual’s education needs, and provide educational opportunities that promote personal and professional development

Demonstrate an awareness of personal development needs by seeking performance feedback from Directors, colleagues, and participate in development opportunities available both internally and externally

Perform other duties as required

Supervises the transactions of the T-Doc (Instrument Tracking Software) and Meditech Materials Management database for receiving, ordering and inventory management of consumables and instruments/trays

Assist with –

monitoring and control of transactions with the requests for new tray changes requests including new tray builds, changes to the existing trays by the customer departments

preparing reports of inventory usage with recommendations for improvements to cost and supply level balances (e.g. review preference cards, tray contents, recommend case cart changes, eliminations, or redistribution of trays/instruments based on usage results)

monitoring and analyzing instrument inventories to ensure timely, accurate reprocessing, in consideration of delivery outpatient clinic carts, reordering of supplies for reprocessing,

analyzing product data on the supply carts to determine supply usage, turnover rates, and appropriate product mix for each supply cart and vendor

Liaise/Coordinate –

with clinical and other departments to meet supply usage and quotas

with the clinical teams for immediate responses to product recalls, communicate and document recall processes

Monitor, correct and optimize inventory tray levels in clinical areas

Reconcile invoice impacts for all orders

Perform other duties as required.

Assist the Manager of MDRD –

with the development and updating of job descriptions and policies and procedures

in enforcing departmental and hospital wide policies and procedures

with development and implementation of reprocessing standards, tray conversions, hospitalwide roll outs of new product lines, coordinate vendor/product education for reprocessing staff, report updates at the Product Review and Standardization Committees, etc.

Assist leadership –

in excellent patient care and service delivery through continuous quality improvement processes that include planning, quality monitoring, and risk avoidance

in the development and use of appropriate resources to measure and evaluate service processes and outcomes

in complying with all processes cons