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Sterile Services Technician
| Posting date: | 24 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £23,615.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £23615.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 April 2025 |
| Location: | Oxfordshire, OX16 9AL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9321-25-0281 |
Summary
Making judgements involving straightforward job related facts or situations. Identifying routine problems which may prevent adherence to decontamination/quality standards. Specific hand/eye co-ordination required to gain the speed and accuracy in checking, packing and assembling surgical equipment to the required quality standards. Achieving the department production targets carried out within recommended best practice and mandatory standards. Provide basic clinical technical services following strict decontamination guidelines for cleaning, sterilisation and packing of surgical equipment. Follow departmental documented policies and procedures at all times. Daily maintenance of theatre instruments, dismantling and re-assembling of surgical instruments and checking optics following the relevant work instructions and comprehensive instrument checklists, identifying any missing components which are reported accordingly. Maintain stock within all production areas, re-order as required and control stock rotation. Demonstrate work activities to untrained staff when qualified. Responsible for data entry onto computer, to maintain records of instrumentation within the department (tracking and tracing). Complete own time sheets and other work records as required. Undertakes surveys and audits (i.e. cleanliness and work required) where necessary within own work and written guidelines. Test decontamination equipment according to relevant HTMs on a daily bases. Work within well established procedures following guidelines for good practice with supervision available for reference. There is a requirement to stand while carrying out duties in all production areas; with a frequent requirement to exert moderate physical effort whilst unloading and loading trolleys into the washer disinfectors and sterilisers. Concentration is required at specific times during the decontamination process to produce correctly laid-up and packaged surgical instruments. Frequent exposure to body fluids and care is required when dealing with contaminated sets due to the presence of sharp instruments when working in the decontamination wash area. The duties and responsibilities of the post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies, procedures and practice of Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and which the Trust may amend from time to time. The duties outlined above are not intended as a restrictive list, and may be extended or altered to include other tasks that are commensurate with the grade.