Decontamination Supervisor

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our in-house Endoscope Reprocessing team as a Decontamination Supervisor. Leading a shift of four, you will ensure all scopes are processed to the highest standards, managing and prioritising workflow to enable our service users to meet the demand of patient activity.

You will be experienced and qualified to undertake and oversee a testing regime, compliant with current regulations, you will be ensuring safety and compliance in this hands-on operational supervisory post.

We have ERUs (Endoscope Reprocessing Units) at St Mary's Hospital,  Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital, with standard shift patterns being four ten-hour days Monday to Friday, 0800-1800 and 1000-2000. All staff are expected to rotate between sites.  Opportunities to work weekends as bank shifts are regularly available.

Main duties of the job

• Supervises the operational aspects of people, processes and performance of the ERU Decontamination Service.
• Directs and participates in the daily planning, prioritization and processing of the work associated with their team/shift and organises all activities in order to achieve a cost effective, productive, high-quality service.
• Ensure routine testing of decontamination equipment at the appropriate intervals to analyse and take appropriate action on any malfunction.
• Line manages a team of decontamination technicians and decontamination porters

Key responsibilities

• To participate in the provision of a specialised decontamination of flexible endoscope service contributing to the clinical care of the patient.
• To perform a full range of decontamination duties and be accountable for work area within department.
• Manages decontamination records in own area of work.
• Interprets and reviews technical data and production reports.
• Provide a high quality and timely service to all customers.
• Supervises, organises and allocates work and /or train less experienced/qualified staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.