To provide day-to-day logistical management of all the Surgical instruments used within the Trust, directly contributing to the smooth and efficient running of the Operating Theatres and quality patient care by ensuring that all surgical instruments are made available for use in a timely manner.
In addition, the post holder will order new instruments and oversee the repair and replacement of instruments to ensure they are always available and in exceptional working order. High standards of quality and safety and excellent communication skills are vital to this role.
Responsibilities include:
1. Daily communication with the Sterile Services Decontamination team to identify instruments needed as a priority or for next-day use.
2. Daily communication with other instrument coordinators within the hospital theatre areas to arrange transport of instruments between hospitals on an ad hoc basis and their return following use.
3. Overseeing that any surgical instruments which are broken, blunt, or defective are sent off to specialist repair companies and, following their return, are put back immediately into circulation without delay.
4. Receiving “Loaned In” surgical instruments for specialist surgery and ensuring these are sent to the Decontamination unit for cleaning, sterilization, and returned ready for use.
5. Maintaining records on instrument repairs and activity of both Trust-owned and loan instrument use.
6. Daily communication with theatres teams to ensure that instrument needs for surgery are available for use in a timely manner.
7. Arranging for instruments to be transferred as required between hospitals across Liverpool University Hospital sites and returned following use.
8. Daily liaison with sterile services to identify and prioritize equipment for next-day use known as Fast-tracking.
9. Receiving, recording, and managing loan instruments into the trust in a timely manner and arranging for these to be returned safely and promptly back to the loaner company following use while maintaining records for cost and quality analysis.
10. Managing all instrument repairs to ensure that broken instruments, those requiring sharpening, or replacements are done swiftly so that these instruments are always available for use.
11. Carrying out expiry date checks on all instruments and returning out-of-date items when expired for reprocessing.
12. Maintaining storage areas for sterile instruments as per trust requirements in line with regulatory and infection control requirements.
Post is a weekly 37.5 hours, 08:45 - 17:15.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital, and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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