Job summary
- Main area
- Sterile Services Technician
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 203-SS857
- Employer
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Warwick Hospital
- Town
- Warwick
- Salary
- £22,383 - £24,336 N/A
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Sterile Services Technician
NHS AfC: Band 2
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 5300 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Probationary Period
All new staff to the Trust will be subject to a standard 6 month probationary period, the details of which will duly follow in your contract of employment.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued and respected and that our organisation is representative of all members of society. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value our employees, job applicants, students, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our values of being Inclusive, Safe, Effective, Compassionate and Trusted.
Agile and Flexible Working
All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.
The Trust also welcome staff to work flexibly and we would welcome the conversation at interview regarding flexible working.
Staff Benefits
The Trust offer a wide range of additional benefits to staff. Anyone who joins us on a substantive basis can assess things such as the Lease Car Scheme, Electronics Scheme, Discounted Leisure and Travel, Cycle to work scheme amongst many others available.
Car Parking
The Trust have recently completed the construction of a multi-storey car park at our Warwick Hospital site which has allowed us to reduce waiting times for car parking passes. The Trust have also been able to freeze car parking charges.
To keep up to date on our latest recruitment activity follow us on twitter @swftrecruit or look us up on Facebook (Recruitment - South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust).
Job overview
Development role from Band 2 to a Band 3
The Decontamination and Sterile Services Technician is responsible for providing effective safe and efficient collection, decontamination (washing, disinfection and sterilization) and distribution of re-usable medical devices for use in direct patient care with complex speciality demands, including devices of varied design which are of a delicate and valuable nature for use in patient care.
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the Sterile Service Department Team in the
decontamination and processing of medical and surgical equipment.
As a Sterile Services Technician you make a valuable and important contribution to the delivery of a high-quality decontamination service. Your role is to support the departmental needs of reprocessing and delivery of all instruments and equipment used to provide medical and surgical procedures. The Hospital and Decontamination Unit (HSDU) provides a service to main theatres, day unit and various clinics, GP's and external contacts.
This job description is to be read in conjunction with the person specification for this particular job.
Working for our organisation
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for carrying out daily inspections and completing vehicle
check lists to ensure vehicle complies with current legislation All defects
to be reported to the Administrator or Supervisor immediately.
Observe all driving regulations and laws.
To ensure that all documentation is present and completed correctly for
each journey.
Deliveries and returns to be made in accordance with laid down times and
procedures
Ensure the vehicle is "clean" before loading
Responsible for the collection of soiled items from service users and for
the dispatch and transportation of sterile products to the required
destination ensuring correct delivery of requested items.
The post holder will be responsible for unloading and packing a wide
variety of equipment. A high degree of physical effort will be required to
undertake these duties on a regular basis.
To undertake the cleaning of trolleys and bins before dispatching to clean
area.
To make up deliveries and orders
To sort used equipment by decontamination category as specified by
departmental procedures.
Responsible for dismantling where necessary used surgical equipment to
ensure thorough cleaning of all components.
Maintaining correct work patterns and conforming to the Wash Area
requirements as per operational procedures.
Ability to multitask; responsible for placing multiple loads of trays into
washers for disinfection.
A moderate level of physical effort will be required to undertake these
duties.
It is essential for staff working in the washroom to wear personal protective
equipment (PPE) as they can be subjected to a high degree of bodily fluids that can be deposited on instruments.
Responsible for carrying out quality checks, assemble, wrap, and labeling
of all surgical instruments, medical equipment and sterilized dressings.
Responsible for assembling instruments to ensure compliance and correct
function in accordance with departmental procedures, specifications and
best practice.
Responsible for completing check lists specific to individual trays.
Responsible for the examination of cleaned devices to validate cleaning
processes.
Responsible for inspecting individual instruments to identify any faults and
reporting immediately to the Supervisor.
Maintaining correct work patterns and conforming to clean room
requirements as per operational procedures.
Responsible for taking phone orders from external clinics, main theatres,
wards and departments and completing appropriate order forms as
necessary.
Sterilizers
Use of autoclaves to sterilize devices ensuring cycle runs meet prescribed
parameters and undertaking daily user tests (Bowie Dick) as required.
Responsible for scanning all instruments onto computer tracking system.
All items must be logged and signed for and then transferred to the
appropriate transfer point.
Department/Ward Rounds
Responsible for collecting surgical and medical equipment from service
users in a safe and efficient manner in accordance with departmental and
Trust procedures.
Communications and Working Relationships:
To answer the telephone when necessary in a polite and courteous
manner.
To relay oral and written messages to the relevant staff i.e. supervisors
and or manager.
To communicate effectively within a team.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard of education
- Basic literacy and numeracy skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of medical terminology
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of sterile service procedures
Desirable criteria
- Experience gained in a sterile services department or similar environment
- Experience gained preferably within the NHS
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good verbal communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to plan workload and work under pressure
- Computer keyboard skills
- Requirement for accuracy, speed, hand-eye co-ordination and manual dexterity
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Articulate and polite
- Responsible and reliable
- Co-operative and flexible
- Able to work to deadlines
- Ability to handle frequent exposure to bodily fluids
Other
Essential criteria
- Passes Occupational screening
- Frequent need to exert moderate physical effort for prolonged periods
- Full clean driving licence
- Willingness to work additional hours evenings and weekends if required
- Willing to participate in an on-call rota
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amit Mistry
- Job title
- Deputy General Manager Hotel Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
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