Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Wheata Dental Clinic
Town Sheffield
Salary £23,615 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period Yearly
Closing 08/04/2025 23:59
Interview date 17/04/2025
NHS AfC: Band 2
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen within Community & Special Care Dentistry to recruit a permanent Decontamination Support Worker to provide a high quality and professional service at Wheata Place Dental Clinic.
You will be responsible for the preparation and maintenance of the dental decontamination areas and the collection and transfer of both dirty instruments and equipment from surgeries to dirty utility and distribution of clean instruments to surgeries once received from the off-site decontamination facility.
Main duties of the job
1. Continuously monitor dirty and clean instruments and equipment availability to maintain service delivery and to monitor stock levels of consumables.
2. Restock dental surgeries as appropriate and put delivered stock away in an ordered manner to ensure efficient stock rotation.
3. Prepare and maintain the environment, instruments, and equipment for clinical dental procedures.
4. Undertake care and maintenance of instruments/equipment providing minor maintenance to a level consistent with knowledge, reporting malfunctions and repairs as necessary to the appropriate person or agency.
5. To monitor stock levels of consumables under the supervision of the dental nurse team leader. To restock dental surgeries as appropriate.
6. Once sharps bin full, ensure they are securely fastened and taken to the appropriate storage facility.
7. To ensure any discrepancies of tray contents are reported to Steris.
8. To check the integrity of instrument packaging before it leaves the clinic and report damaged/wet/unsealed packaging and return to Steris.
9. Unload the Steris clean instrument trolley, storing appropriately ensuring accurate rotation of instrument sets and supplementary items.
10. Pre-clean/oil/dismantle instruments as per training in a dedicated decontamination area.
11. Scan each kit, supplementary package before placing them into a scanned Steris dirty instrument trolley ready for pick up by Steris driver.
Please note this advertisement can be appointed as either a full time or part time opportunity.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of its staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Grade C/4 or above including English & Maths or equivalent qualification/experience.
* Training in cross infection/decontamination processes
* Institute of Decontamination Sciences - Operational Qualification in Decontamination
Other Factors
* Respect confidentiality
* Work flexibly in order to adapt to the demands of the post
* Ability to communicate with clients, staff and other health care professionals.
* Good interpersonal skills.
* Ability to work as an effective team member
* Ability to use own initiative.
* Basic computer skills.
* Commitment to learning.
* Knowledge of infection control/decontamination processes.
* Knowledge of cross infection within a hospital/primary care or dental setting
Experience
* Knowledge and experience of infection control processes.
* Basic knowledge and understanding of health & safety requirements
* To have worked as part of a team and demonstrate use of own initiative
* Use of computerised recording system
* Worked in a hospital or primary care or dental setting.
* Use of computerised dental system
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The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.
Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.
All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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