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Sterile Services Technician | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,029 per annum including HCAS (inner) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 February 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6902741/200-NN-6902741-AC-Z |
Summary
To work in a collaborative and supportive environment with members of the multidisciplinary team. To carry out tasks delegated from professionally qualified staff, requiring a wide range of technical ability, numeracy and literacy skills as well as a significant level of interpersonal skills and manual dexterity (disassembly, inspection, decontamination, assembly, packaging, sterilisation of surgical instrumentation to predetermined standards).
To be flexible in the approach to the production areas and provide cover for any area specified.
Assist in training of new members of the team
We are looking to recruit motivated, reliable staff to work in our department, who enjoy working within a team.
Previous decontamination experience is not essential as we provide our own training scheme, based on current standards. The training is compulsory for all members of staff.
Please note that all successful candidates will be required to rotate through the following shifts: 0600-1400; 1200-2000; 1400-2200; 2200-0600 including weekends and Bank holidays.
This is a physically demanding post involves high level of manual handling with long periods of standing.
We highly recommend all applicants visit the department.
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
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This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Jan 2025
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