Sterile Service Technician - NHS Professionals Limited : Job Details

Sterile Support Technician

Nottingham University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH

£16.05 per hour Monday – Friday, Saturdays& Nights £16.14 per hour, Sundays £20.95 per hour

37.5 per week working Monday – Friday on a mix of 6.00am – 2.00pm and 2.00pm – 10.00pm

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham. We are looking for 5 Sterile Service workers to join our friendly team. The Sterile Services department is at the heart of the Hospital; this critical service is responsible for the decontamination of medical devices for surgery and patient care. This is not a patient facing role but is very much patient focused and the patient is at the core of everything we do.

Your duties will include:

• Perform a thorough damp dust of work areas prior to commencement of work
• Accepting used surgical instruments into the department ready to be reprocessed.
• Correctly loading the washer-disinfector and autoclave to ensure effective decontamination of the entire load.
• Ensuring a full inspection of the load is carried out prior to packaging the instruments for sterilization.
• Packaging instruments, when applicable, in accordance with Hospital policy.
• Recording and reporting any failed runs to the Theatre Manager.
• Reporting any problems/anticipated problems to the Theatre Manager as soon as possible.
• Inspecting all sterile packages for integrity once the load has cooled sufficiently and returning any compromised packages to be re-packaged and re-autoclaved.
• Returning decontaminated goods back to respective departments as soon as possible.
• Ensuring all items passed through a decontamination process have a traceability label attached/available.
• Ensuring all relevant paperwork within the department is completed.
• Undertaking daily checks of all machinery and keeping records of the checks.
• Ensuring appropriate stock levels are maintained within the department.
• Accepting and processing equipment from outside agencies

Skills required:

• A basic standard of general education with proven literacy and numeracy.
• Evidence of previous sterile services experience
• Good communication skills, verbal and written, and basic computer literacy.
• Attention to detail and an overarching desire to deliver a high-quality service.
• To be able to handle manual handling duties up to 13kg.

The Trust:

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust was Rated ‘Outstanding’ in ‘Well Led’ by the CQC and is home to some of the world’s leading clinicians and experts

Who are NHS Professionals?

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.

Working through the NHSP bank means Trusts don’t have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over 130,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades, and specialities, saving the NHS over £70 million each year. This money is then reinvested back into the NHS.

In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: –

• Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week!
• First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England
• Dedicated consultants
• Flexible working options
• Free DBS and free training
• Build holiday allowance
• Support when you need it – 24/7 365 days
• Stakeholder pension scheme

Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.