sterile services

Job Title: Sterile Services Assistant

Location: Ipswich Hospital - IP4 5PD

Trust: East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Department: Sterile Services

Band/Pay rate: Band 2 - £11.45

Hours: Monday - Friday 13:00 - 21:00 and nights 17:00 - 06:00

Contract: Ongoing

The Role:

We have an ongoing placement opportunity available for a Sterile Services Assistant at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

This is a full-time role, based at Ipswich Hospital

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.