Sterile Services Coordinator

2 months ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Band 4

**Main area**
- Sterile Services

**Grade**
- Band 4

**Contract**
- Permanent

**Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Fully flexible over 24/7 rota. Part time will be considered)

**Job ref**
- 164-5829822

**Site**
- Queens Medical Centre

**Town**
- Nottingham

**Salary**
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum

**Salary period**
- Yearly

**Closing**
- 11/12/2023 23:59

Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you strive to provide the best service to customers?

As a coordinator you will be responsible for the smooth day to day running of the department, ensuring that high quality standards are met and strict procedures are followed.

Main duties of the job

Your main responsibilities would include:

- Coordination of the collection of contaminated instruments from across the Trust, decontamination of the equipment and effective delivery of sterilised equipment to users on a daily basis to ensure demands for equipment are met.
- Ensuring that the required standards of production, cleanliness and quality control are followed to ensure that quality accreditation standards are maintained.
- Day to day management of the Sterile Services Technicians, including the allocation and checking of work, sickness absence management, completion of appraisals, providing appropriate training, reviewing work performance and assessment of competency
- Daily testing of equipment and ensuring that associated auditable documentation is completed.

Working for our organisation

Our Sterile Services Department cleans, disinfects, packs and sterilises reusable surgical instruments for approx. 75 operating theatres, plus other clinic areas throughout the Trust, as well as providing a service to health centres and other external customers. The department is one of the biggest and busiest in the country and is operational 24/7. The department is based at Queen's Medical Centre, with a receipt and distribution centre servicing Nottingham City Hospital.

You would be joining a large well established technical team of around 80 technicians and 6 coordinators, with an opportunity for professional / career development within the NHS.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Deliver an exemplary customer experience by providing a professional, efficient, proactive, and patient-focused service to theatre staff and other clients whilst working as part of the Sterile Services team.

Ensure that the required standards of production, cleanliness and quality control are followed to ensure that quality accreditation standards are maintained.

To support the implementation of policies, procedures and protocols through coaching and training to maintain accreditation to ISO 13485:2016.

Responsible for the day to day Management of the Sterile Services Technicians, including the allocation and checking of work, providing appropriate training, and carrying out assessment of competency.

To develop and maintain effective channels of communication with internal and external service users, other departments and staff within the department.

Coordination of the daily testing of equipment and ensuring that associated auditable documentation is completed.

Highlight areas of concern or opportunities for service improvement to management and assist with implementation of any changes as necessary. Actively encourage other team members to contribute towards improvement ideas for the department.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria
- Willingness to work towards a formal qualification in decontamination.

Desirable criteria
- IT Qualification (e.g. ECDL)
- Management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a customer service or production role.
- Thorough knowledge of surgical instruments / decontamination processes.
- Experience of working as part of a team and on own initiative
- Knowledge of instrument tracking systems or theatre management systems
- Good level of IT skills (standard keyboard skills)
- Experience of providing vocational training / mentoring / coaching others
- Experience of prioritising workload

Desirable criteria
- Ability to present information to large groups (e.g. in a training environment)
- Ability to deal with challenging behaviours
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career

**Salary**: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a prefe

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