Decontamination Technician - Sterile Services
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Job overview
Our department is looking for a keen motivated individual 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 sterilised and processed for Surgery.
Full training in decontamination, sterilisation, and Quality Management will be given to the successful applicant.
Applicants must have good communication skills; excellent attention to detail and can work under their initiative.
The hours of work would be 37.5 hours per week working various shifts between 8 am & 8 pm and you would be expected to work weekends on a rotational basis.
Main duties of the job
You will be introduced to the identification, classification and inspection of reusable medical devices
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 sterilization of reusable medical devices. You will learn about different sterilisation methods, equipment used, test regimes and post sterilization.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification attached for more details on the job role.