Job Description
The role of Sterile Services Technician is avitalcomponent in the day-to-day running of any surgery department. It requires focus and a microscopic attention to detail, ensuring the safety of all those involved in surgery, from staff to patient. If you think you are up to the challenge, we would love to hear from you!
As a Technician your role will be one that requires a methodical and accurate approach to the production of theatre trays and procedure packs containing surgical instrumentation and reprocessing endoscopes. This is accomplished using dedicated washers and sterilizer’s, that require the sets to be dismantled, decontaminated, reassembled and sterilized before being returned to the operating theatres. Adherence to departmental standards and procedures isessential.
Some of your day-to-day duties will include:
- Meeting the standards ISO 13485:2016 and meet the requirements on the Medical Devices Regulations.
- The collection, inspection, cleaning, disinfection, maintenance, assembling, packing, sealing, labelling and sterilisation of surgical instruments, trays and equipment.
- Operate all equipment safely following work instructions, washer disinfector and sterilisers. Report to a senior colleague any failure of equipment as soon as it is identified to ensure that it is repaired.
- Work as part of the team to ensure that all work is delivered in a timely manner.
- Participate weekend working and Bank Holiday Rotas
- You may be required to drive a Light Goods Vehicle (LGV) during periods of staff shortages or emergency requests.
We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
- To decontaminate re-usable medical devices effectively and in line with departmental deadlines requiring each set to be dismantled prior to cleaning and reassembled and checked prior to sterilization.
- The department uses dedicated washers and sterilizer equipment as part of the process. Upon completion of appropriate training you will be required to understand and operate these machines.
- The department has a dedicated training programme in addition to the trusts mandatory programme which all technicians are required to complete. The process has been broken down in to various modules which are to be completed before competency can be approved.
- Technicians must ensure that the instrumentation is accurate against the instrument checklists both at receipt and at dispatch and has been recorded on the tracking system.
- You will be required to work to strict adherence of an accredited Quality Management System (QMS) that the department is required to maintain in order to retain its accreditation with Medical Devices Directives
- Effective communication with colleagues, supervisors and Managers is crucial. Information about instrument sets may need to be conveyed back to theatres or to other colleagues during shift changes.
- As part of this role the department is required to collect dirty and distribute sterile instrumentation around numerous ward and clinic areas.
- The department is required to maintain a pre-determined level of goods for use on wards and clinics. All technicians are required to participate in the departments Top-Up system to the wards and departments of the trust.
- Ensure that stock, sets, and instrumentation is correctly rotated upon return to wards and departments to restrict the amount of sets reaching expiry.
- Input data to produce checklists, labels and delivery notes using the departments track & trace system. The track & trace system enables all items to be tracked at each stage of the process thus providing an assurance that all instrumentation had undergone the correct and complete process
- You will be expected to maintain a good standard of housekeeping throughout the department and adhere to environmental control limitation such as limited amounts of products to be stored and removal of external packaging prior to submission to the clean room.
- The washers and sterilizers are required to undergo some basic daily housekeeping checks which are undertaken by the machine operative on a daily basis.
- Physically fit – job involves lifting and handling and standing for
long periods of time
Able to push/pull instrument transportation trolleys