Job Overview We are looking for a flexible and enthusiastic persons to work in a busy but friendly Sterile Services department at our Wexham trust, providing disinfection and sterilization of trays and instruments for operating theatres and wards. Training will be provided for you by our friendly and professional team. The vacancy is at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire within a modern well equipped Sterile Services department which opened in January 2009. If you think this is the role for you but would like to know more, then please get in touch with our Sterile Services team who are happy to give you more details. Previous applicants need not apply. Main duties of the job To undertake decontamination science duties and assist colleagues and Supervisors in providing a specialised decontamination of medical devices service contributing to the clinical care of the patient. To carry out the receipt, disassembly, cleaning, reassembly, packing and sterilization of reusable medical devices. Record all tasks in the Healthcare Science Information Systems (tracking and tracing) database. Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information. Working for our organisation Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users. Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities To undetake decontamination science duties and assist colleagues and Supervisors in providing a specialised decontamination of medical devices service contributing to the clinical care of the patient. To carry out the receipt, disassembly, cleaning, reassembly, packing and sterilization of reusable medical devices. Record all tasks in the Healthcare Science Information Systems (tracking and tracing) database. Work in accordance with the Department’s standard Operating Procedures and Quality Management Systems. Under limited supervision meet the demands of the Department’s workload whilst consistently achieving high quality standards which will be measured by in-process checks and non-conformance reports. Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria GCSE or equivalent Desirable criteria NVQ3 (Technical Certificate Decontamination) or equivalent level of knowledge and experience through decontamination training Experience Essential criteria previous experience working in team Desirable criteria Previous Experience in Decontamination or equivalent knowledge on Decontamination Skills Essential criteria Ability to work accurately under pressure Desirable criteria Able to train staff in decontamination Specialist Knowledge Essential criteria basic knowledge of keyboard and keyboard skills Desirable criteria knowledge of decontamination of reusable medical devices Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities. We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park. We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment. Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. Apply online now