Job Description
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
We are looking to recruit a Band 3, HSDU Decontamination Night Supervisor, to join our friendly and enthusiastic small team within our HSDU decontamination unit
candidates suitable for this post must either have Supervisory experience within Sterile Services of at least 2 years and HSDU decontamination experience. Candidates must have good general education and willing to undertake further training and development.
To undertake decontamination duties and assist in providing a specialised decontamination of medical devices service contributing to the clinical care of the patient.
To carry out the receipt, disassembly, cleaning, disinfection, reassembly, packing, sterilization or high level disinfection of reusable medical devices.
Clean and maintain instruments to strict standards of decontamination in line with Unit Policy
To Record all processes in the track and trace database.
To deal with all levels of customer queries via; telephone and direct personal contact, including clinicians, nurses and other practitioners.
To provide supervision to Decontamination Technicians and provide support around training needs, appraisals and to ensure all staff carries out duties as per policies and procedures.
Work in accordance with the Department’s Standard Operating Procedures and Quality Management System ISO13485:2016.
This role involves shifts working between 21.00 - 7.30 Monday & Friday and 21.30 – 7.30 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday over a 4 day period rolling 2 week rota Weekend working and bank holidays will be required and rostered on a fair share basis.
The candidate will be expected to be able to Supervise and delegate tasks as and when necessary. The Candidate will also be expected to collect instruments from departments around the trust, manually clean instruments before placing into washer disinfectors. They will be required to quality check items, monitor the wash cycle and its load, packing and storage of instruments within a timely manner.
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To organise the efficient and effective operation of the day to day production processes by prioritising and delegating departments work load to staff under their supervision
- To prepare goods and services for customers utilising all areas in department
- Supervise departmental staff, altering rotas ensuring staffing levels relate to the workload
- To assist with distribution of clean supplies to theatre, wards and other department
- To ensure that all priority requests, and that all turnaround times and contractual deadlines are adhered to
- To undertake operation of equipment e.g. Washers/Storage Cabinets and other relevant machinery and carry out routine tests in accordance with the Planned Preventative Maintenance Schedule, Quality Standards and Guidance
- Be receptive to training and development
- To communicate with enquires from users, and other members of healthcare staff in a polite and helpful manner, seeking scientific staff advice where required.
- To undertake duties as required, consistent with the responsibility of the grade and needs of the service.
- To communicate with users on the telephone if calls are received in production areas. Refer all queries to Supervisor or Deputy Manager.
- Assist with the department’s internal audit.
- To undertake general housekeeping and cleaning of workstation(s)
- To participate in the departmental Qualification in Decontamination training programme
- To deal with any reported Faulty equipment as per procedures
- To assist and support the management team with the testing regimes as set out within the relevant HTM’S
- To participate in monthly Supervisor meetings to ensure team objectives are being met
- To operate the computer system as required, after receiving suitable training on various relevant systems
- To abide by all rules and regulations lay down by the management, Health & Safety etc. and to wear appropriate uniform at all times, during working hours, within the Department
- Any other duties within the scope of a Sterile Services Dept. as may be required from time to time
Applications from candidates who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available as it is unlikely in these circumstances that the UK Border Agency Resident Labour Market Test requirements would be met. For further information on this test please visit the UK Border Agency website.
Following a UK Border Agency announcement on 23rd December 2010, Tier 1 applications made from Overseas will no longer be accepted. Therefore applications for this vacancy requiring this Tier 1 status cannot be processed.
This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Potential applicants are encouraged to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment.Previous applicants need not apply.
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