Afc Sterile Services Supervisor

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

**HOW CAN YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE?**:
**No sterile service experience is needed - Full training is given.**
**Supervisory experience is preferable.**

**About you**
Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you? Are you passionate about helping our incredible national health service make a difference? Do you care about keeping vulnerable patients safe? If so, then a career with SSL in Salisbury could be a great fit for you.
There is an excellent opportunity to join SSL sterile services as a supervisor. Training and Development are offered to get you on to a defined pathway.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - AFC Band: Band 4 - Location: Salisbury District Hospital

**Job Purpose**
To Supervise a team of Sterile Service and Endoscopy personnel on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that Sterile Service and endoscopy provision complies with current legislation.
To provide leadership through personal example, promoting sound departmental communication and fostering good interpersonal relationships.

**Working Pattern**:
**This is a full-time role for 37.5 hours a week. The role holder will be required to cover a flexible shift pattern, which may involve weekend and/or evening working.**

**What is involved?**:

- To oversee the preparation of instruments and equipment effectively and efficiently by the process of cleaning, inspection, assembly and packing within predefined quality standards.
- To oversee and rigorously check, wash, lay-up and pack sets of theatre instruments and endoscopes to meet contract specifications within predefined quality standards.
- To oversee that repairs and missing instruments or equipment are recorded and logged on the Tracking and Traceability computer system.
- To proactively monitor, evaluate and ensure that operational activities fully comply with required Health and Safety procedures and guidelines.
- To ensure that all designated staff are kept informed and trained on individual and team health and safety procedures in the workplace.
- To participate as an integral member of the sterile processing and endoscopy team and actively contribute to suggestions of innovation, continuous improvement and best practices.
- To monitor and ensure that all production processed by the designated team conforms to Synergy Health Sterilisation Services quality guidelines and ensure complete contamination control.
- To actively assist and support the Production Manager in the planning and operational process.
- Monitor absence levels, maintain accurate records and liaise with team members in the management of absence.
- To coach, support, and guide team members in line with the principles of Performance Management, setting and reviewing goals, acting as a mentor to the team and identifying training and development needs.
- To ensure effective communication between senior management and production teams.
- To participate in the one call management rota service to maintain emergency services to customers.
- To support and participate in 5S, Lean and Kaizen activities
- To undertake any other duties or tasks as reasonably required.

**What is in it for you?**:

- An annual salary of £26,282.00 and generous shift allowances if you work overtime/unsociable hours
- Full structured and comprehensive training
- Ongoing education leading to industry-recognised qualifications
- Defined career path when fully operational
- A diverse and people-centric culture
- AFC (Agenda for Change) pay structure
- Starting at 27 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and 33 days after 10 years’ service

**Required Experience**:

- Educated to a good general standard with demonstrable verbal and numerical abilities.
- Basic end user IT skills to operate track and traceability IT system.

**Skills**:

- Flexibility
- Teamwork
- Integrity
- Working under pressure
- Accountability
- Attention to detail

STERIS is a leading provider of products and services that meet the needs of growth areas within Healthcare: procedures, devices, vaccines and biologics. We exist to fulfill our MISSION TO HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD. STERIS is a $3B, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 16,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.