Decontamination Services Supervisor

6 days ago


Bedford, Bedford, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for decontamination supervisor Band 4 to lead a team of technicians within Endoscopy Decontamination Unit at Bedford Hospital.


We are looking for a dynamic people person who will be responsible for providing senior support gained through their previous experience to the decontamination technicians and to the delivery of quality service on day-to-day operational basis.


The Decontamination Services at Bedford Hospital which includes Sterile Services and Endoscopy has a vacancy for a Decontamination Supervisor working in EDU.


This is a Full time position of 37.5 hours

Working:


Two weeks roster:
Early-Monday-Friday -8:00 - 16:00, Late: Monday - Friday-11:00-19:00 and every other weekend on Saturday and Sunday.

A comprehensive job description is attached to this vacancy.


Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton.

Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff.

As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.

We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care.

The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Please review all documents attached to this advert to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

  • First line management of all Technicians and Porters, including annual appraisal/ return to work meetings and ensuring all aspects of their roles are conducted satisfactorily. Monitor attendance, timekeeping and behaviour, ensuring compliance with the uniform policy, escalating issues as required.
  • Prioritise the departments' production in order to meet customer's needs, ensuring urgent requests/ trauma instruments, loan sets and any other fast track requests are dealt with efficiently and in a timely manner.
  • Communicate effectively to ensure relevant information is available to all production staff. Ensure information is passed on and recorded in relation to changes to instrument set specification lists, changes in working practices, training issues etc.
  • To deputise for Assistant Manager when required, dealing with all aspects of production. Liaising with other Departments and any problems that arise.
  • To supervise all production staff within the units, ensuring that their work is of the required standard. Monitoring correct use of tracking systems and ensuring all procedures are followed correctly
  • To organise staff rotas and be responsible for the allocation of duties to all staff. Monitor attendance and timekeeping of all production staff. Ensure sufficient staff are available in both SSD and EDU
  • Ensure all daily, weekly and monthly checks/ tests are carried out and recorded correctly, any faults recorded and corrective actions put in place.
  • Take part in the departments on call rota as required
  • To be responsible for all aspects of staff training, ensuring all staff are competent to fulfil their role; appropriate records are maintained and mandatory training takes place when required. Provide training arising from nonconformances/appraisal/ changes to practice/ complaints and issues arising from audit etc.
  • Ensure departments training records are maintained in line with procedures and the requirements of ISO13485, developing training plans as required
  • To communicate closely with the departments and customers, establishing demand levels and priorities. And to deal with problems and nonconformances as required.
  • To ensure that all staff operate machinery and tracking systems correctly, ensuring that adequate training is given and problems are reported to the appropriate person
  • To liaise with the Estates department and contractors as required to ensure the compliant operation of all equipment; reporting faults as required and ensuring customers are made aware when capacity is affected.
  • To monitor and ensure adherence to all quality control procedures and assist in the implementation of the Quality Management System in respect of ISO 13485, including conducting internal audits and assisting in external audits as required.
  • To be responsible for the supervision of weekends/ bank holidays as required
  • To represent the department at selected meetings as required
  • Deal with all nonconformances, ensuring records are completed fully and instruments are dealt with as soon as possible, ensuring problems are resolved/ instruments quarantined or concession raised as appropriate, informing customers if instruments are out of circulation.
  • To ensure that instrument rep


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