Sterile Services Assistant, WRH - Worcester, United Kingdom - Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Description

Job summary

The TSSU (Sterile Services) department is an enthusiastic team who workin a busy fast paced department. The Sterile Services Department reprocessessurgical instruments for the Trust and surrounding areas. The Trust is not only tackling thewaiting list backlog following the Covid pandemic but has also increased in Trauma procedures at the WRH. This has created moreSterile Services Assistant job opportunities within the TSSU department. Theshift available is 4pm - 8pm Monday to Friday. The department offers a sixmonth on the job training programme with an accompanying I Learnqualifications. The department is looking to offer an NVQ qualification in thefuture. Opportunities do arise within the department to progress to aSupervisor and potentially a future manager.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role are the collection of used surgicalinstruments, preparing the instruments for the washer disinfector. Thereassembly of the surgical instrument trays, closely inspecting for cleanlinessand damage, wrapping of the surgical instruments. The sterilisation anddelivery of the reprocessed surgical instruments.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Job responsibilities

To undertake generalduties within the Sterile Services Department including cleaning, inspecting,testing, assembling, checking, packing and sterilising of theatre instruments,ward instruments and operating theatre instrument trays. To collect and deliveritems to Wards, Departments and Theatres

Qualifications

Desirable

Experience

Desirable