Senior Theatre Support Worker - Decontamination | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 23 Medi 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Preston, PR29HT |
| Cwmni: | Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7500963/438-PB3068-A |
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Are you experienced in a Theatre environment and ready for your next exciting challenge? Are you passionate about ensuring patient safety and delivering high-quality service? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
We are seeking a dedicated and reliable Decontamination Support Worker to join our dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you’ll be responsible for the safe and specialised decontamination of flexible endoscope devices, ensuring the highest standards are maintained to guarantee patient safety and quality care.
If you are looking for an opportunity where you can make a real difference in patient care and work in an environment that values safety, professionalism, and teamwork, then we want to hear from you!
A level 3 in Health and Social Care is also an essential requirement for our external candidates.
****Unfortunately we cannot accept those who need sponsorship to work in this role****
We are seeking a dedicated and motivated individual to join our team and play a key role in delivering safe, high-quality patient care. In this role, you will perform a full range of decontamination duties, with particular emphasis on the cleaning and sterilisation of flexible endoscope devices. You will demonstrate a strong commitment to patient safety, consistently working to the highest standards and ensuring that every aspect of your work reflects best practice.
Collaboration is at the heart of this role, and you will work closely with registered nurses and Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs), following their guidance and support to provide seamless, effective care. You will communicate clearly and professionally, documenting all decontamination activities in a timely and accurate manner.
Maintaining excellent standards of hygiene and safety will be central to your responsibilities, with strict adherence to established protocols at all times. In addition, you will contribute to the ongoing development of care standards and best practices through training opportunities and full compliance with safety regulations.
· We have 10000 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 which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Duties to include, but not be limited to:
• Provide good quality personalised care in accordance with agreed local and national standards.
• Be able to work within the flexibility of the theatres, ie working days, evenings, nights & weekends
• Undertake clinical duties relevant to the clinical area following achievement of competencies
• Assist to maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Promote equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting and meeting the needs and choices of individuals.
• Contribute to maintaining safe, clean and productive care environment, compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness.
• Maintain and develop own competence in accordance with Trust and local policy.
• Communicate and document information in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Actively try to resolve issues and complaints at local level and report outcome to line manager.
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Oct 2025