Sterile Service Technician

Due to the growing number of treatments we are now giving to patients and with the increasing external support we are offering to other healthcare centres, our busy, detailed and professional, Sterile Services department have a new opening for a Sterile Services Technician to join and be part of our fun team in supporting the Sterile Services Manager in ensuring a continuously effective decontamination and sterile supplies service.

• How conscious are you about decontamination and sterile services in our Hospitals and Treatment Centres today?
• How knowledgeable and compliant are you when it comes to health and safety guidelines (PPE) and the COSHH legislation?
• How do you see yourself working to a prescribed standards in order to minimise risk to others?
Working in close co-operation our with Theatre and Endoscopy departments you the Sterile Services Technician will be providing an effective service for the needs of surgeons and patients., Reporting to the Decontamination Manager you the Sterile Services Technician will be accountable for the reprocessing of reusable medical devices this will involve washing, disinfecting and the sterilising of theatre equipment. You will also be responsible for the decontamination of flexible Endoscopes for our Endoscopy department. Youll help to maintain supplies inventories and stock levels, keeping accurate records maintained on our computer system tracking various theatre items and instruments. This will include, daily validation testing and recording. Youll look to monitor all procedures and report malfunctions of sterilisers and washer-disinfectors to the Sterile Services Manager and record the details on forms. You will be participating in conducting planned audits, looking at particulars such as equipment being correctly labelled and available as required and that equipment leaving the centre is correctly documented. We see the appointed Sterile Services Technician, coming from a very similar background, will be a strong team player and will have a good working appreciation of decontamination processes within a healthcare / surgical environment.

You will need to be focused in your work as concentration is required all times during the decontamination and packing process. You will be an effective communicator at all level, both written and verbal with a good degree of computer literacy. The role requires applicants to preferably have Hepatitis B and TB vaccinations, however, practice plus group will put successful applicants through a course if there is no evidence of immunisation

There is a requirement to stand while carrying out duties in all production areas; with a frequent requirement to exert a moderate to high physical effort whilst unloading and loading trolleys into the autoclaves and washer disinfectors.