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Job requirements
Essential
7 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of producing quality products within a defined performance criteria
- Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrate awareness of importance of working as part of a team
- Knowledge and Skills
Able to communicate effectively in difficult or stressful situations
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to work under own initiative
- Knowledge and Skills
Ensure all work processed is recorded using the IT tracking systems in accordance with the relevant work instruction
- Qualifications and Training
GCSE’s /O Levels or ability to demonstrate equivalent
- Qualifications and Training
Decontamination NVQ Level 3 or Equivalent
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience in a theatre or sterile services department
- Experience
Experience of working with the NHS
- Knowledge and Skills
Competent in the operation of sterilisers and washer/disinfectors Computer literate with knowledge of tracking systems
- Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge of working with a QMS
- Qualifications and Training
Full or part member of IDSc/CSC
Job overview
We are a large friendly team with a commitment to high standards and meeting the needs of our customers in this critical area. Involves the cleaning, decontamination and sterilising of re-usable surgical instruments and equipment to support the Trust in the provision of surgical care for our patients. We work closely with our operating theatres and wards to provide safe, sterile surgical instruments and equipment within the timeframes that it is required.
Without the safe reprocessing of re-usable sterile instruments and equipment patients would not be able to have their operations and outpatient procedures. We are accredited to the ISO13485 and constantly seek to maintain and improve our quality standards.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship or a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) for this post.
Main duties of the job
To ensure that all products manufactured in the Sterile Services department within the Trust are fit for purpose and produced in a timely and efficient manner in accordance with the Quality Management System (QMS) relevant to the area.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work with the management & supervisors to meet the production needs of the department & its customers
- To comply with all local policies and procedures
- To check that all equipment is present and correct
- To check that all equipment is present and correct
- Report any discrepancies to the customer and the department manager/supervisor immediately.
- Complete the relevant documents for any non-conformances
- To wash and decontaminate instruments according to the departments policies and procedures, particularly Health and Safety and Control of Infection.
- To be able to identify different pieces of equipment, speciality and the customer they belong
- To repack and prepare instrument sets and packs for theatres and other departments in accordance with the work instructions and standard operating procedures and the relevant kardex (preference) lists.
- To ensure that packs are clearly identified using the bar coded traceability system.
- To sterilize instrument packs by use of dual temperature steam autoclaves and other sterilizing equipment as necessary. To identify the different types of equipment for high temp sterilization and low temp sterilization.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Sterile Services Technician with Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 3 Sterile services technician role. The advertised salary is £25,760 - £27,476 per annum plus HCAS. The contract type is Fixed term: 6 months (Maternity cover until 06 June 2027). The application deadline is 30 Oct 2026.
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