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Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to join The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Production Manager based at their decontamination facility in Enfield, Monday to Friday 08:00 to 16:00.
Flexibility is a must for this role as there may be times when your hours will need to be adjusted to meet the needs of our customer. You will receive an enhancement of pay for working weekends/unsociable hours when required.
The role is to focus primarily on the delivery of production performance and continuous improvement relating to decontamination services delivered for the Great Ormond Street Hospital contract.
This Production Manager role will proactively manage the production of a team of technicians, team leaders and supervisors ensuring safe and efficient delivery of the services ensuring that key performance indicators associated with the customer contract are met.
The Production Manager will play a key role in regular customer communication and engagement through various remote, virtual and face to face meetings. While based at the decontamination facility in Enfield, this role can involve offsite meetings at the customer locations.
Main duties of the job
• Focus primarily on delivery of production performance and to drive continuous improvement initiatives across all areas of the sterile services operation specifically relating to the Great Ormond Street Hospital contract.
• Manage the production of the department and to be responsible for all production, quality, and management of the sterile services team.
• Ensure that items are processed in a timely manner to meet the requirements of customers and fulfill the requirements of the regulations, guidelines, and quality as specified in the Decontamination Services Quality Management System.
• Be part of the senior management team, providing input and cover for other members of the team as and when required.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
* NVQ Level 3 Decontamination
* Degree or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
* Member of the Institute of Decontamination Services (IDSC).
* City & Guilds 229515 Certificate - Management of the Decontamination Process
* NVQ Level 2 Business Administration.
* NVQ Level 3 Management.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Extensive experience working within Sterile Services.
* Experience of communicating and managing complaints from customers, suppliers and staff
* Experience of managing large teams.
Desirable criteria
* Production management experience; ability to schedule production effectively.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Technical knowledge of re-usable medical devices
* Current knowledge of legislation standards, guidance and practices related to decontamination of medical devices, including but not limited to: BS EN ISO 13485:2016 and the MDD 92/43/EEC
Desirable criteria
* In depth knowledge of decontamination technology.
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
* Effective and professional skills
* Ability to collate data and present information and/or reports to groups
* Ability to meet deadlines
* Performance orientated/customer focused
* Ability to analyse data and compile reports
* Ability to appraise and develop staff
* Computer literate
Desirable criteria
* Audit experience/qualification
* Ability to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams
* Understanding of budgetary control and development of business cases
Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
Please note:
* Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
* Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
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