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Regional SPD Sr Educator Prog Mgr

MultiCare Health System
paid time off
United States, Washington, Tacoma
603 South J Street (Show on map)
Jun 17, 2025

You Belong Here.

At MultiCare, we strive to offer a true sense of belonging for all our employees. Across our health care network, you will find a dynamic range of meaningful careers, opportunities for growth, safe workplaces, and flexible schedules. We are connected by our mission - partnering and healing for a healthy future - and dedicated to the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

FTE: 1.0, Shift: Days, Schedule: Mon-Fri, Core Business Hours

Position Summary

The Regional SPD Sr. Educator plays a critical role in developing the SPD training program and training in the Sterile Processing Department (SPD). They ensure the SPD team adherence to industry standards and regulatory guidelines. This position supports training and development initiatives, focusing on both initial and ongoing education to maintain compliance and enhance staff competencies.

The Regional SPD Sr. Educator will work closely with SPD leadership and The Center for Clinical Practice and Professional Development to design, develop, and implement educational performance improvement strategies based on data driven performance gaps.

Essential Functions

  • Develop custom MultiCare SOPs, Standard Works and Competencies and ensure they remain up to date with the most current best practices, regulatory standards, and manufacture's IFU, if applicable.

  • Ensure risk analyst are completed and approved, or a manufacture's clarification is on file for all processes where best practices, regulatory standards, and manufacture's IFU and vague or non-existent.

  • Build, evaluate and update onboarding training, CEU training opportunities, new product training, quality improvement in-service training and annual competencies in partnership with system education departments.

  • Collaborates with Risk and Infection Control to ensure new protocols are implemented timely and assure quality standards are maintained.

  • Maintain up-to-date training records and ensure all employee certifications and competency levels are accurately documented.

  • Provide re-education and targeted training in response to performance issues, including those identified in operating room and instrument tray audits.

  • Interim management coverage, as needed.

  • Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree preferred.

  • Minimum of 10 years of Sterile Processing required; 5 years of experience mentoring and providing education or training in a professional setting preferred.

  • Certifications: CRCST (HSPA) or CSPDT (CBSPD) required upon hire.

  • Additional certifications (CER or CFER) required within 1 year after hire.

Our Values

As a MultiCare employee, we'll rely on you to reflect our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration and Kindness. Our values serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.

Why MultiCare?

  • Belonging: We work to create a true sense of belonging for all our employees
  • Mission-driven: We are dedicated to our mission of partnering for healing and a healthy future and the patients and communities we serve
  • Market leadership: Washington state's largest community-based, locally governed health system
  • Employee-centric: Named Forbes "America's Best Employers by State" for several years running
  • Technology: "Most Wired" health care system 15 years in a row
  • Leading research: MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation, 40 years of ground-breaking, clinical and health services research in our communities
  • Lifestyle: Live and work in the Pacific Northwest - offering breathtaking water, mountains and forest at every turn

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $82,077.00 - $118,102.00 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant's years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.

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