Decontamination Coordinator

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
Salford Community Equipment Service provides equipment to the population of Salford. This equipment enables people to live a more independent life within their own home environment. The provision of equipment can make a huge difference to the quality of a persons independence and is a well regarded service.

We have a team of Support Workers and Technicians and are looking to recruit Decontamination Coordinators to our friendly team.

Salford Equipment Service is part of Independent Living Services working alongside Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists to provide equipment for people within their own homes.

Equipment and Wheelchair Support Workers and Equipment Maintenance Technicians deliver and install equipment and when it is no longer needed the equipment will be returned.

Decontamination Assistants are a new role within this service to ensure that we clean our equipment to a high standard, service the equipment and return it ready to be re-issued in a timely manner. The role of Decontamination Assistant will compliment our other team members and complete our team to ensure our service standards remain high

**Main duties of the job**:
The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that equipment returned to our Equipment store will be decontaminated, tested and returned to our shelves ready for reissuing.

The range of equipment is wide covering walking aids, profiling beds, pressure care, sensory and Telecare equipment.

Decontamination Coordinators will need to be physically capable of lifting equipment into an industrial washer or into a bagging machine.

The main responsibilities of the role will be ensuring the equipment follows a set decontamination process. Servicing and testing equipment and returning it to stock ready for reissue.

**Working for our organisation**:
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Salford is the place, which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Salford Care Organisation is responsible for delivering a range of acute, community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**IT literate**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to use IT equipment

**Previous experience of working in a warehouse**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Warehouse experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of working with medical devices
- Demonstrate good literacy and numeracy skills

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