Sterile Services Technician inDartford inDartford PUBLISHED
MON 11 NOV 2024
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust rPnKt7V5
Location: Dartford, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Role Overview:
The Sterile Services Technician is responsible for ensuring the safe cleaning, decontamination, and sterilisation of reusable surgical instruments and equipment at Dartford Valley Hospital. This role supports the Trust in delivering high-quality patient care by providing sterile instruments to operating theatres and clinics.
Positions Available:
- 2 Permanent Late Positions: Tuesday to Friday (12:00 pm - 8:00 pm) and Saturday (8:00 am - 4:00 pm).
- 1 Internal Rotation Shift: Varied shifts from 7:30 am to 8:00 pm, including weekends (currently 1 weekend in 4 and 1 late shift in 4).
Key Responsibilities:
- Clean, sterilise, and pack clinical equipment.
- Maintain accurate processing records for tracking instruments to patients.
- Lift and manoeuvre heavy instrument trays and trolleys.
- Participate in in-house training and undertake NVQ training as required.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Attention to detail and conscientiousness.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Manual dexterity is required due to heavy lifting involved.
Additional Information:
- In-house training provided.
- Shift work, including weekends and Bank Holidays, is required.
- Candidates must have the right to work in the UK; visa sponsorship is not available.
The unit prioritises high standards and quality, contributing significantly to patient operations and outpatient procedures through reliable sterilisation practices.
Are you interested in helping to provide a safe, high quality decontamination service to patients at Daren't Valley Hospital?
Are you interested in developing your knowledge and skills in the decontamination and sterilisation of surgical instruments?
We have 3 Full Time posts for Sterile Services Technicians.
2x Permanent Late Position working Tuesday to Friday from 12.00pm to 20.00 & Saturday from 08.00am to 16.00pm.
1 x Internal Rotation Shifts, working an internal shift pattern, from 07.30am - 15.30pm, 12.00pm to 20.00 & weekends 08.00am to 16.00pm. (Currently 1 weekend in 4, and 1 week of late shift in 4).This is subject to changing requirements to meet the service needs.
The job involves the cleaning, decontamination and sterilising of re-usable surgical instruments and equipment to support the Trust in the provision of care for patients. We work closely with our operating theatres and clinics to provide safe, sterile instruments and equipment at the time they are needed.
We will provide in house training in all areas of the department, fully supporting your professional development.
This position will not be supported for visa sponsorship. All applicants are expected to have valid right to work document to work in the UK when applying for this position.
Please note, this vacancy may close earlier than the given closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
You must be willing to undertake in-house training and prepared to work shifts, weekends and Bank Holidays. You must be conscientious and have the ability to give attention to detail. You must have good verbal and written skills, and the ability to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team.
This vacancy requires manual dexterity; as heavy lifting is involved.
The Unit
The unit is currently open from 7.30 a.m. to 20.00pm weekdays and 08.00 to 16.00 at weekends. This will change if demands for our services increase. We are a small friendly team with a commitment to high standards and meeting the needs of our customers in this critical area. Without the safe reprocessing of re-usable sterile instruments and equipment patients would not be able to have their operations and outpatient procedures. We are accredited to the ISO Standards and constantly seek to maintain and improve our quality standards.
About us
Clinical Responsibilities:
Provide basic clinical technical service to clean, sterilise and pack theatre and other clinical equipment.
Maintain accurate processing records to enable the tracking and traceability of surgical instruments to individual patients.
Undertake NVQ training as required by the Trust to enable national standards to be met.
Lift and manoeuvre instrument trays / trolleys.
Please see attached job description for further information.
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