Decontamination Technician - Sterile Services

Job overview

Our department is looking for  keen motivated individuals to join our busy team of Floor Managers and Technicians in preparing medical devices and associated equipment for daily use.

Technicians will be trained to carefully wash, pack & inspect all ranges of medical devices before being sterilized and processed for surgery.

Full training in decontamination, sterilisation, and quality management will be given to  successful applicants.

It is essential that applicants have good communication skills, excellent attention to detail and can work under their own initiative.

The hours of work would be 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday between 8am & 9pm and you would be expected to work weekends and Bank Holidays on a rotational basis.

Main duties of the job

You will be introduced to the identification, classification and inspection of reusable medical devices.

Will also cover reprocessing of specialist equipment as well as repairs and maintenance.

Used returned medical devices must be regarded as a potential infectious hazard to handlers including decontamination service personnel.

You will also cover the receipt, sorting and preparation of returned reusable medical devices for cleaning and disinfection.

You will learn the activities that you either perform yourself, or the measures you need to take to protect the medical devices that you are handling and preparing for the wash cycle.

You will gain knowledge and information on function testing, inspection and assembly of reusable medical devices, covering packaging, selection and application of packing materials, requirements for sealing and labelling of packages.

You will familiarise yourself with records and documentation that is required.

Further into the training you will cover the sterilisation of reusable medical devices.

You will learn about different sterilisation methods, equipment used, test regimes and post sterilisation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Job summary

To undertake decontamination science duties and assist (under supervision) the workforce of

Decontamination Floor Managers, 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.  ISO13458:2016 and HTM01 01 guidance