Job Overview Frimley Park Hospital As a key member of the Endoscopy Unit (EU) team, the post holder will play a vital role in supporting both the medical and nursing staff. A primary responsibility of this role is to provide a comprehensive decontamination service to the Endoscopy Unit, internal wards, departments, and peripheral outpatient clinics, ensuring the highest standards of hygiene and patient safety. Main duties of the job To check and inspect used instruments ready for manual cleaning and report any defects or discrepancies to the decontamination lead or nurse in charge. To manually clean flexible endoscopes according to national decontamination guidelines and record the details To load and unload flexible endoscopes from the washers/disinfectors and report any issues to decontamination lead/manager. To do water test weekly and report any as per guidelines. To report any damaged endoscope and return to appropriate company for repair. To undertake training appropriate to role and all trust wide mandatory training 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 For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Good standard of literacy and numeracy. Desirable criteria Achievement of an appropriate endoscopy technician training programme. Achievement of endoscopic washer/disinfector training Experience Essential criteria Experience working in healthcare environment Desirable criteria Experience of working within the Endoscopy Decontamination environment as a technician. Skills and Knowledge Essential criteria Good communication skills and organisational skills. (Verbal and written Able to work under supervision and independently when required Ability to work as a member of a small team Good interpersonal skills Desirable criteria Achievement of endoscopic washer/disinfector training Achievement of an appropriate endoscopy technician training programme Special Requirements Essential criteria Flexibility within contracted hours to meet the demands of the department 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