Job description
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.