Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

We are recruiting a  sterilization support managers for providing the leadership on the delivery of sterilization across the trust site and working with the sterilization contracts and performance team .

Leading asset and inventory management between Theatres, Sterile Services, and supply/purchase teams of reusable surgical instruments. 

Actively participating in the operational process working without supervision and supervise other staff in the overall production process, ensuring quality standards are attained and procedures are adhered to.

Act as a gateway for the loan sets/instruments process to ensure that procurement of loan sets/instruments is requested, Ensure the leakage of surgical instruments between sets is minimized by effective process mapping, using recommended audit procedures, pre- and post-operative checks. Practice and ensure that the inventory of sets and equipment is accurately reflected in the track and trace system.

Reporting the Sterilisation Lead on regular basis and working closely with the site Equipment Managers, Theatre Managers, and site theatre teams and with the Sterile Services Provider - Steris Management.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support and deputise for the Sterilisation Lead on the operational and strategic management of sterile services with the trust’s external sterilisation service. This role will be providing the leadership on the delivery of sterilisation across the trust site in conjunction with the Sterilisation Lead. This role will have requirements to be cross based between Kingston hospital and STERIS in Chessington South.

Working for our organisation

Trust Values

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are: 

• Caring – Design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
• Safe – Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
• Responsible – All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
• Value Each Other – Value each other's contribution
• Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients